CALL FOR PAPERS Twenty-First Manchester Phonology Meeting 23-25 MAY 2013 Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2013 Special session: 'Harmony in Phonology', featuring: * Andrew Nevins (University College London) * Miklos Torkenczy (Eotvos Lorand University) * Douglas Pulleyblank (University of British Columbia) * Rachel Walker (University of Southern California) Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester, England. Organised through a collaboration of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and elsewhere. Conference website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/21mfm.html ------------------------ BACKGROUND We are pleased to announce the Twenty-First Manchester Phonology Meeting (21mfm). The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference, with an international set of organisers. It is held in late May every year in Manchester (central in the UK, and with excellent international transport connections). The meeting has become a key conference for phonologists from all over the world, where anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an abstract on anything phonological in any phonological framework. In an informal atmosphere, we discuss a broad range of topics, including the phonological description of languages, issues in phonological theory, aspects of phonological acquisition and implications of phonological change. ------------------------ SPECIAL SESSION There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything, but a special themed session has been organised for Friday afternoon, entitled 'Harmony in Phonology'. This will feature the invited speakers listed above (in alphabetical order) and will conclude in an open discussion session when contributions from the audience will be very welcome. ------------------------ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION **This mentions only a few details - please consult the website for full information: - http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/21mfm.html * There is no obligatory conference theme for the 21mfm - abstracts can be submitted on anything phonological. * We are using the Linguist List's EasyAbstracts system for abstract submission. Abstracts should be uploaded to the 21mfm's page on the EasyAbstracts site by 31st January 2013: - http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/21mfm * Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 5 minutes for questions, and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a half hours. When you submit your abstract, you will be asked to indicate whether you would be prepared to present your work (i) either as a talk or a poster paper or (ii) only as a poster. * We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by early March, and we will contact all those who have sent abstracts as soon as the decisions have been made. **Further important details** concerning abstract submission are available on the conference website. Please make sure that you consult these before submitting an abstract: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/21mfm.html ------------------------ ORGANISERS Organising Committee: The first named is the convenor and main organiser, If you have any queries about the conference, feel free to get in touch (patrick.honeybone@ed.ac.uk). * Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh) * Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester) Advisory Board: * Adam Albright (MIT) * Jill Beckman (Iowa) * Paul Boersma (Amsterdam) * Bert Botma (Leiden) * Mike Davenport (Durham) * Stuart Davis (Indiana) * Laura J. Downing (Gothenburg) * Mark Hale (Concordia) * S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne) * Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois) * Martin Kramer (Tromso) * Yuni Kim (Manchester) * Nancy Kula (Essex) * Aditi Lahiri (Oxford) * Nabila Louriz (Hassan II, Casablanca) * Joan Mascaro (UAB) * Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin) * Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens & Leiden) * Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa) * Tobias Scheer (Nice) * James M. Scobbie (QMU) * Daniel Silverman (San Jose State) * Jochen Trommer (Leipzig) * Christian Uffmann (Sussex) * Sophie Wauquier (Paris 8)