Conference: AMP 2018

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The Linguistics Department at UC San Diego is pleased to announce that the 6th Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) will be held on October 5-7, 2018 in San Diego, CA, USA.

We invite abstracts for presentations on all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational phonology. The conference will feature a fully integrated workshop entitled “Methods in phonological data collection and analysis of underdocumented languages,” for which abstracts for presentations are especially welcome.

Conference website: http://phonology.ucsd.edu/

Invited speakers

Workshop tutorials

  • Underdocumented language data corpus construction
    (Gabriela Caballero, UC San Diego)
  • Electroglottography for voice analysis
    (Marc Garellek, UC San Diego)
  • Investigating underdocumented tone systems
    (Bert Remijsen, University of Edinburgh)

SPOT tutorial

Important dates

  • April 2, 2018: Call for papers
  • June 1, 2018: Abstracts due for both the main session and the workshop
  • July 27, 2018: Notification of acceptance, registration opens
  • August 13, 2018: Program available
  • October 5-7, 2018: AMP conference
  • February 15, 2019: Proceedings submission deadline

Call for papers

We are seeking high-quality unpublished research in all areas of theoretical, experimental, and computational phonology for presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2018), to take place October 5-7, 2018 and hosted by the Linguistics Departmentat the University of California, San Diego. We welcome submissions that address issues in the phonologies of spoken and/or signed languages. This is the sixth installment of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, following the 2013 inaugural meeting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and subsequent meetings hosted by MIT, UBC/SFU, USC, and NYU.

This year’s conference features a workshop entitled “Methods in phonological data collection and analysis of underdocumented languages,” with associated tutorials and invited speakers. We are particularly interested in high-quality research submissions that address the workshop theme.

Submission Guidelines

We invite abstracts for either oral presentation (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or poster presentation. Abstracts must be anonymous, so please be sure to eliminate any identifying information and metadata from the document. Length is limited to a maximum of two single-spaced pages (US Letter), figures and references included. Font size should be 12-point, with margins of at least one inch (2.54cm) left on all sides. Abstracts must be submitted in .pdf file format.

Submissions are limited to three per author, with at most one submission being single-authored.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, June 1, 11:59pm PDT (23:59 GMT-7).

Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amp2018

Contact: phonology@ucsd.edu

Faculty organizers: Eric Baković, Gabriela Caballero, Marc Garellek, Sharon Rose

Student organizers: Andrés Aguilar, Yuan Chai, Neșe Demir, Kati Hout, Yaqian Huang, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Eric Meinhardt, Michael Obiri-Yeboah, Matt Zaslansky