The Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/Université de Nantes) launches a conference dedicated to Element Theory in Nantes, June 14-15 2018.
The aim of this event is to provide an overview and to open new perspectives in this research program. In doing so, we would like to open discussions regarding the phonological framework(s) that use unary primes, with a particular focus on:
– the relation with phonetics,
– the head/dependent status,
– the asymetries among primitives,
– the possible operations and
– the expansion or diminution of the element set required to characterize segments.
The above mentioned topics are open and we invite the participants to provide thoughts and criticism about the general axis we propose. There are obviously more questions that can be addressed regarding ET and we encourage any contribution that falls within this scope.
This conference aims at bringing together linguists from various areas and is not restricted to theoretical phonology. This is addressed to researchers that wish to present new topics regarding ET, but also to those who are not familiar with the most recent developments within Elements Theory and are looking for an extensive overview.
Invited Speakers:
- Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University)
- Elan Dresher (University of Toronto)
- Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
- Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
- Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)
Call and Submission:
The detailed version of the call is available here.
Scientific Committee:
- Jean-Pierre Angoujard (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
- Phillip Backley (Tohoku Gakuin University)
- Jean-Marc Beltzung (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
- Sabrina Bendjaballah (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
- Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho (Paris 8 University)
- Monik Charette (SOAS University of London)
- Elan B. Dresher (University of Toronto)
- Harry van der Hulst (University of Connecticut)
- Nancy Kula (University of Essex)
- Martin Krämer (Tromsø University)
- Jean Lowenstamm (University of Paris 7)
- Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin University)
- Hitomi Onuma (Iwate Medical University / Tohoku Gakuin University)
- Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
- Krisztina Polgárdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- Tobias Scheer (University Nice Sophia Antipolis)
- Geoff Schwartz (Adam Mickiewicz University)
- Jean-Luc Schwartz (GIPSA Lab)
- Péter Szigetvári (Eötvös Loránd University)
- Ali Tifrit (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
- Nathalie Vallée (GIPSA Lab)
- Laurence Voeltzel (LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes)
Organizing Committee:
LLING UMR 6310 CNRS/University of Nantes
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