2018 Old World Conference on Phonology
2018 Old World Conference on Phonology
12–14 January 2018
London, United Kingdom
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The 15th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP) will be held at University College London (UCL), hosted by UCL and the University of Essex. It is also sponsored by the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB).
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Call for papers
We welcome submissions on any topic in phonology. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions. There will also be a poster session. We particularly welcome submissions from students and early career researchers. Each individual may submit a maximum of one abstract as first author (or sole author), and a maximum of two abstracts in total. Abstracts will be (blindly) peer-reviewed by an international panel of reviewers.
Abstract guidelines:
Abstracts not following these guidelines will be rejected without review.
Abstract submission, reviewing, and notification of acceptance will be handled using EasyChair.
Please follow this link to submit an abstract via EasyChair.
The deadline for abstract submission was 22 September 2017.
Registration and fees
Registration is now open (see below).
To benefit from early registration (discount of £10), please register by 15 December 2017.
Registration fees:
Conference dinner:
The conference dinner will be held at Tas Restaurant (22 Bloomsbury Street, WC1B 3QJ) on Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 19:30. The cost of the dinner is £27 (not included in the conference fee), which includes a selection of mezes, bread, choice of main (to be selected at the restaurant), and service charge. Click here to see the menu. Beverages are not included but can be purchased at the restaurant.
If you would like to join us at the conference dinner, please select the appropriate option on the registration form and the cost will be added to your total.
To register: please click this link. It will take you to the UCL store where you can register and pay using a credit card.
Programme
Friday 12 January 2018 | |
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Registration opens at 9:00 | |
Session 1 Location: Chandler G10 Chair: John Harris |
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9:30 – 10:00 | Tobias Scheer, Fabien Mathy & Fanny Meunier How to determine whether an alleged phonological process is real |
10:00 – 10:30 | Dinah Baer-Henney & Ruben van de Vijver Breaking good – Syllabification strategies in German speakers |
10:30 – 11:00 | Shannon Mooney & Youngah Do Learners change artificial languages to constrain free variation in line with typological principles |
11:00 – 11:30 | Break (coffee/tea and biscuits provided) Location: Lumen café, 88 Tavistock Pl |
Session 2 Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Nancy Kula |
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11:30 – 12:00 | Devon Guinn & Aleksei Nazarov Evidence for features and phonotactics in beatboxing vocal percussion |
12:00 – 12:30 | Deepthi Gopal Sonority and the typology of Turkic onset obstruentisation |
12:30 – 13:00 | Bert Vaux & Emily Tucker Prud'Hommeaux Structured variation in English L-allophony |
13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch time (not provided) |
Session 3 Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Markus Pöchtrager |
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14:30 – 15:00 | Jelena Stojković Syncope, stress and deriving emptiness -- deletion in Afar nouns |
15:00 – 15:30 | Mirella De Sisto & Marc van Oostendorp ‘Words’ vs. ‘phrases’ as building blocks of poetic metrics |
15:30 – 16:00 | Birgit Alber Minimal variation in the typology of stress |
16:00 – 16:30 | Business meeting |
16:30 – 18:00 | CANCELLED |
Saturday 13 January 2018 | ||
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Session 4A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Eva Zimmermann |
Session 4B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Péter Szigetvári |
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9:30 – 10:00 | Caroline Féry & Beata Moskal Alliterative concord: both sides of the fence |
Charles Chang & Sungmi Kwon Sensitivity and transfer in perceptual learning of nonnative phonological contrasts |
10:00 – 10:30 | Johanna Benz Phonologically conditioned affix order in Washo |
Nabila Louriz Patterns in loanword adaptation |
10:30 – 11:00 | Laura Downing Blurring the line between duplication and reduplication |
Hyoju Kim Orthography effects in loanword adaptation: Korean speakers’ adaptation process on the English reduced vowel |
11:00 – 11:30 | Break (coffee/tea and biscuits provided) |
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Session 5A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Jochen Trommer |
Session 5B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Adam Chong |
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11:30 – 12:00 | Daniel Christoph Gleim Duke-of-York epenthesis in Arapaho |
Donald Alasdair Morrison Vowel nasalisation in Scottish Gaelic: The search for paradigm uniformity effects in fine-grained phonetic detail |
12:00 – 12:30 | Chikako Takahashi Locality restriction on metathesis in Harmonic Serialism |
Benjamin Storme Derived environment effects and logarithmic perception |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch time (not provided) |
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Session 6A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Silke Hamann |
Session 6B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Nancy Hall |
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14:00 – 14:30 | Jade Jørgen Sandstedt The role of phonological contrastivity in neutral harmony |
Eva Zimmermann Exceptional non-triggers are weak |
14:30 – 15:00 | Stephen Nichols Positional faithfulness and feature co-occurrence constraints in the height harmony systems of five-vowel Bantu languages |
Israa Al-Rantisi & Vladimir Kulikov Emphasis spread in two Palestinian dialects of Arabic |
15:00 – 15:30 | Ágnes Benkő, Fanni Patay, Ágnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy Neutrality patterns in Hungarian backness harmony: an experimental study |
Peter Jurgec & Francesc Torres-Tamarit Allomorph selection predicts opacity in Harmonic Serialism |
15:30 – 17:00 | Poster session Location: Chandler B01/B02 (coffee/tea and biscuits provided)
(1) Phillip Backley & Kuniya Nasukawa |
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17:00 – 18:30 | Invited speaker: Maria-Rosa Lloret Andalusian vowel harmony at the phonology-morphology interface Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Jamie White |
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19:30 – | Conference dinner Location: Tas Restaurant 22 Bloomsbury Street, WC1B 3QJ |
Sunday 14 January 2018 | ||
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Registration opens at 9:00 | ||
Session 7A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Marc van Oostendorp |
Session 7B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Birgit Alber |
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9:30 – 10:00 | Yuriy Kushnir Accent strength in Lithuanian prosody |
Nancy Hall & Elica Sue Hocank (Winnebago) vowel epenthesis: A phonological re-examination in light of phonetic data |
10:00 – 10:30 | Péter Szigetvári English obstruents and laryngeal markedness |
Silke Hamann Ghost phonemes in second languages |
10:30 – 11:00 | Break (coffee/tea and biscuits provided) |
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11:00 – 12:30 | Invited speaker: Jennifer Smith Impossible-nativization effects and productivity in loanword phonology Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Andrew Nevins |
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12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch time (not provided) |
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Session 8A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Monik Charette |
Session 8B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Laura Downing |
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14:00 – 14:30 | Jochen Trommer An infection analysis of across-the-board lowering in Jumjum |
Maya Barzilai Epenthesis in Egyptian and Iraqi Arabic: An output-output correspondence analysis |
14:30 – 15:00 | Marjoleine Sloos & Jeroen Van De Weijer Schwa deletion and Final Devoicing in West Frisian |
Christine Marquardt Opacity in Mojeño Trinitario reduplication: An argument for Harmonic Serialism without serial template satisfaction |
15:00 – 15:30 | Sabrina Bendjaballah & Ali Tifrit /l/-vocalisation in Mehri |
Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári & Miklós Törkenczy Explaining unnatural gaps in variation |
15:30 – 16:00 | Break (coffee/tea and biscuits provided) |
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Session 9A Location: Chandler G10 Chair: Nabila Louriz |
Session 9B Location: Chandler 118 Chair: Francesc Torres-Tamarit |
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16:00 – 16:30 | Krisztina Polgárdi The representation of sC-clusters: a CV analysis |
Gillian Gallagher & Maria Gouskova Inducing nonlocal constraints from baseline phonotactics |
16:30 – 17:00 | Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn Accounting for the definite articles in Old Italian and modern dialects. No allomorphy - a common UR |
Kevin Tang & Faruk Akkus OCP effects in Turkish partial reduplication: Locality and feature specificity |
17:00 – 17:30 | Alexander Martin, Marieke van Heugten, René Kager & Sharon Peperkamp Relating perception and production in contact-induced change |
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Farewell Location: Chandler 118 |
Venue and travel
The conference will take place at Chandler House (2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF). Note that we are not located in the centre of UCL's main campus, but a short walk from there.
Travel by rail
The nearest train stations to Chandler House are London St. Pancras International, London Kings Cross, and London Euston. It is about a 15-minute walk from all three stations.
The nearest Underground stations are Russel Square (5 minute walk) and Kings Cross/St. Pancras (15 minute walk).
Travel by air
The Bloomsbury area is accessible from all major London airports.
From London Heathrow airport, the Piccadilly line runs direct to Russel Square station. The journey is about 1 hour and costs £6 for a single trip, or less if you use an Oyster card.
From London Gatwick airport, you can take a Thameslink train (towards Bedford) to London St. Pancras International. The trains typically run every 30 minutes. A single journey takes about 1 hour and costs £10.40 at non-peak times (after 9:00 am).
Accommodation
There is no official hotel for OCP15, so you will need to make your own arrangements for accommodation in London.
For hotels, you can consider booking sites such as hotels.com or booking.com. You might also wish to check AirBnB.
For less expensive accommodation, there are some hostels in the area, such as the Generator Hostel which is just a few minutes walk away. For more options, you can check Hostel World.
Finally, as it is relatively easy to travel around London using the Underground or buses, you might wish to consider staying further away from Bloomsbury to find less expensive accommodation.
Food and dining
The Brunswick Centre is only a few minutes walk from Chandler House and it contains a variety of chain restaurants serving food that is relatively quick and reasonably priced. It also has a Waitrose grocery store.
Additional restaurants can be found nearby on Leigh Street and Marchmont Street.
Some specific nearby restaurants that you may wish to consider for lunch or dinner include:
Contact us
Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Conference organisers: