CONF:

[Kuznetsova Natalia]

[for information in English, see below]

Дорогие коллеги,

Наш воркшоп, посвященный фонологическим редкостям, был включен в программу международной конференции Poznan Linguistic Meeting, которая пройдет 16-19 сентября в Познани, в Польше (http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020). Это будет юбилейная 50-я конференция, и c пленарным докладом выступит Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico). В настоящий момент конференция планируется в формате личного присутствия, однако онлайн-формат выступлений, по-видимому, будет также доступен.

Официальная информация о воркшопе скоро появится на сайте конференции; ниже прилагаю его краткое описание.

Впоследствии мы планируем опубликовать том, посвященный фонологическим редкостям, в нашей открытой книжной серии "Topics in Phonological Diversity" при издательстве Language Science Press (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tpd).

Приглашаем всех подавать заявки на участие (подробнее см. http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/Abstract_submission) и пересылайте, пожалуйста, информацию потенциально заинтересованным коллегам!

Крайний срок приема тезисов: 9 апреля (обратите внимание, что он отличается от общего дедлайна, указанного на сайте конференции!).

Желаем всем приятных выходных,

С уважением,

Наталья Кузнецова (ИЛИ РАН - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Cormac Anderson (MPI-SHH, Jena)
Shelece Easterday (University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)

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Dear colleagues,

we would like to inform you that our workshop proposal on phonological rarities was accepted for the Poznan Linguistic Meeting, to be held September 16-19 in Poznan, Poland (http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020). PLM is celebrating its 50th edition, and the keynote address will be given by Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico). For now, the conference is planned as an on-site event, but a virtual option will be most likely also available.

The information on our workshop will appear online in the list of the thematic sessions of the conference in the following days; I attach its description below.

We plan to subsequently publish a volume on this topic in our open-access book series "Topics in Phonological Diversity" at Language Science Press (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tpd).

You are very welcome to submit (please consult http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/Abstract_submission), and please spread the word!

The deadline for submission is April 9 (please note that it is different from the deadline for all papers which is mentioned on the website!).

Wishing you a nice weekend,

Best,

Natalia Kuznetsova (ILS RAS - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Cormac Anderson (MPI-SHH, Jena)
Shelece Easterday (University of Hawai'i, Mānoa)


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Phonological diversity matters: Rarities in phonology
Convened by Cormac Anderson, Natalia Kuznetsova, Shelece Easterday
Enquiries to t...@langsci-press.org

The patterns of sounds of the world's languages are many and varied. Although the human articulatory, auditory, and perceptual apparatus limits and shapes the ways in which languages harness sound to convey meaning, considerable diversity can be observed in phonological systems cross-linguistically. We believe that this diversity matters and welcome submissions for a workshop focused on rarities in phonology.

Rare phenomena play a key role in forming and challenging linguistic theory. In formal approaches, the identification of rare phenomena has been one of the primary means of expanding and modifying the theoretical acquis. While linguistic typology has often worked rather with larger cross linguistic samples, a focus on rare phenomena has emerged since the beginning of this millennium (Plank 2000; Simon & Wiese 2011; Wohlgemuth & Cysouw 2010a, 2010b; Golovko et al. 2015).

Rarities can be ignored by linguistic theory, be reanalysed as regular, or be incorporated by changing the theory (Simon & Wiese 2011). Within phonology, a number of thematic studies taking the third approach have recently appeared, addressing topics as diverse as vertical vowel systems (Anderson 2016), voiceless sonorants (Blevins 2018) or obstruent devoicing (Blevins et al. 2020), non-canonical word prosody (Kuznetsova 2018), highly complex syllable structure (Easterday 2019), and metathesis (Edwards 2019). This work can be seen in the context of an expansion of research on the evolutionary aspects of both universals and rarities, with attempts to explain typical pathways of emergence or disappearance (e.g. Blevins 2004, 2015; Round 2019).

For this workshop, we invite submissions for papers investigating synchronic and diachronic rarities in phonology. These might include individual studies or thematic surveys of specific sounds, features, systems, structures, or phenomena. Proposals focusing on synchronic rarities in a single language will be considered, but a broad typological or evolutionary perspective is preferred.

The diversity of phonological patterns has been matched by the multitude of different ways linguists have attempted to account for them. Some of these ways may also be rare and interesting. For this reason, we aim to see a variety of theoretical frameworks represented at the workshop and welcome also submissions that focus on rare types of phonological analysis.

We recognise that, for various reasons, rarities are often concentrated in lesser-studied languages (Mithun 2007; Mansfield & Stanford 2017), which with greater investigation may challenge our understanding of what is rare or typical, possible or impossible. The ability of these kinds of data to provide new theoretical inputs in phonetics and phonology has already encouraged a number of special issues (Whalen & McDonough 2019; Tucker & Wright 2020). Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions dealing with lesser-studied languages.

We plan to edit a volume on the topic of typological rarities in phonology for our newly-established open-access book series “Topics in phonological diversity” at Language Science Press (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/series/tpd), providing a potential publication outlet for successful proposals.

For further details: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/Abstract_submission
Deadline: for submissions: 9 April 2021
Notification of Acceptance: 21 May 2021

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Blevins, Juliette. 2004. Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Blevins, Juliette. 2015. Evolutionary phonology: A holistic approach to sound change typology. In Patrick Honeybone & Joseph Salmons (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology, 485–500. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blevins, Juliette. 2018. Evolutionary Phonology and the life cycle of voiceless sonorants. In Sonia Cristofaro & Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony, 29–60. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Blevins, Juliette, Ander Egurtzegi & Jan Ullrich. 2020. Final obstruent voicing in Lakota: phonetic evidence and phonological implications. Language 96(2): 294-337.
Easterday, Shelece. 2019. Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study. Berlin: Language Science Press.
Edwards, Owen. 2019. Metathesis and unmetathesis in Amarasi. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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Kuznetsova, Natalia. 2018. What Danish and Estonian can show to a modern word-prosodic typology. In Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz & Harry van der Hulst (eds.), The study of word stress and accent: theories, methods and data (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science), 102–143. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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