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Emptiness in Phonogical Theory : a meeting of the Phonological Theory Agora
Date : 06-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017
Location : Paris, France
Contact Person : Noam Faust
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://pta.cnrs.fr/
Linguistic Field(s) : Phonology
Call Deadline : 31-Aug-2017
Meeting Description :
This agora is based on a small number of assumptions that are shared by the participants :
- Both theories of symbolic representations and computation are needed
- Phonology and phonetics are distinct systems
- Demonstrations that are not based on corpus data and/or statistical relevance may be conclusive.
Within this framing, we have identified a number of topics of interest, which include the following :
- The formal basis of phonological representations (objects) and computation (processes)
- The division of labour between them
- The proper balance between universals and variation in grammar
- The relation of phonology with (primarily) morphosyntax and phonetics, both in terms of the interfaces, as well as the necessity of a shared vocabulary
- The ontology and specificity of phonology and its place within Cognitive Science / the biolinguistics community : what exactly is specifically phonological (linguistic) (domain- specific), what exactly reflects the recruitment of more general - Cognitive capacities (domain- general) ?
- The necessity of formalization
For more information on the phonological Theory Agora : http://pta.cnrs.fr/
For information on the current venue see call for papers.
Call for Papers :
When : October 6, 2017
Where : 61 rue Pouchet, Paris
This symposium will be devoted to the many-faceted issue of emptiness. It will have two parts.
- In the morning, a tutorial on the topic will be given by Eva Zimmermann and Sabrina Bendjaballah.
- In the afternoon, there will be a session of “make a claim and defend it” about this topic.
Among the theoretical questions related to emptiness are
- Does zero equal emptiness, or does the latter always concern a position ?
- Is zero a grammatical object distinct from the absence of a grammatical object ?
- What is the relation between emptiness and non-specification, or other aspects of defectiveness ?
- What determines whether an empty/unspecified position/object will require filling/identification, or instead may remain with no direct realization ?
- Which phonological objects can be empty, and which cannot, and what are the consequences for phonological theory ?
- How are empty objects learned ?
- Is the contrast between an object and zero different from the contrast between two non-null objects ?
- How can phonologically-driven paradigmatic gaps be modeled ?
- etc.
Anonymous one-page abstracts (12p., not including references) should be submitted to pta(at)cnrs.fr before September 1.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 8.