Call for Papers: Old World Conference in Phonology

11th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 11)
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Meertens Instituut Amsterdam
22-25 January 2014

Invited Speakers:

Adamantios I. Gafos (University of Potsdam)
Silke Hamann (University of Amsterdam)
Alan Prince (Rutgers University)

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Meertens  
Instituut Amsterdam are proud to announce that the eleventh Old World  
Conference in Phonology (OCP 11) will take place in Leiden and  
Amsterdam from 23 to 25 January 2014. It is organised by a group of  
local phonologists and follows in the line of previous OCP  
conferences, which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes,  
Toulouse, Edinburgh, Nice, Marrakech, Berlin, and Istanbul.

The conference will be preceded by a workshop on the relationship  
between phonetics and phonology on 22 January. Everyone attending the  
conference is very welcome to attend the workshop, too.

Pre-Conference Workshop on the Relationship between Phonetics and Phonology:

During the last years a special attention has been devoted to the  
relationship between phonetics and phonology. However, most of the  
questions dealing with the role of phonetics in formal models of  
phonology are still unanswered. As a matter of illustration, some of  
these questions are the following: are phonological features grounded  
in phonetics, or are they substance-free? If features are grounded in  
phonetics, are they based on articulation or acoustics? Is the mapping  
between the phonological output and phonetics a direct or an indirect  
one? Should functional explanations of phonological patterns be  
included in formal phonology, or are synchronic phonological patterns  
just phonetically arbitrary, meaning that those explanations do not  
belong to grammar but to other theories such as sound change? How is  
metrical structure reflected in phonetics? (How) should phonetic  
variation in the speech signal be captured in phonological theory?

Local Organizers:

Chair: Björn Köhnlein
Bert Botma
Ben Hermans
Frans Hinskens
Claartje Levelt
Kathrin Linke
Etske Ooijevaar
Marc van Oostendorp
Marijn van ?t Veer
Secretary: Francesc Torres-Tamarit

Call for Papers:

Abstracts for presentation as either talks or poster papers can be  
submitted on any phonological issue (theoretical or empirical).

For the main conference, we invite abstracts either for an oral  
presentation of 20 minutes (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or  
for poster presentation.

For the workshop, we invite submission of abstracts for an oral  
presentation of 20 minutes (followed by 10 minutes of discussion).

Abstracts must be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including  
examples and references. Submissions are restricted to one  
single-authored and one co-authored abstract. The conference language  
is English: abstracts and talks will be in English.

Page format: A4, 2,54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides, 12-point  
font, single line spacing
File format: .pdf

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2013
First call for papers: 29 April 2013
Second call for papers: 15 July 2013
Last call for papers: 1 September 2013
Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2013
Main conference: 23-25 January 2014
Pre-conference workshop: 22 January 2014