Twentieth Manchester Phonology Meeting 24-26 MAY 2012 Deadline for abstracts: 30th January 2012 Special session: 'Unsolved Problems in Phonology', featuring: * Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail) 'Latent Consonants' * Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley) 'Nonderived Environment Blocking' * Donca Steriade (MIT) 'Segment Sequencing' * Nina Topintzi (Leipzig) 'Compensatory Lengthening' Held at Hulme Hall, Manchester. Organised through a collaboration of phonologists at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and elsewhere. Conference website: www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html ABSTRACT SUBMISSION **This mentions only a few details - please consult the website for full information: - http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/20mfm.html * There is no obligatory conference theme for the 20mfm - 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 20mfm's page on the EasyAbstracts site by 30th January 2012: - http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/20mfm * 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/20mfm.html