Old World Conference in Phonology

he Eighth Old World Conference in Phonology (updated call for papers) The University of Hassan II, Ain Chock, Casablanca is proud to announce that it will host the eighth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP8). It will take place in Marrakech, and it will follow the line of previous OCP conferences which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh and Nice. There is no specific theme for the main conference, abstracts can be submitted on any topic in phonology. However, there is a half-day thematic pre-conference workshop on ‘the contribution of Arabic and Amazigh in phonological theory’ Keynote speakers: – Karim Bensoukas (Mohammed V University, Morocco) – Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University, USA) – Janet Watson (Salford University, UK) Main conference: we invite submission of abstracts o either for 20 min oral presentation, followed by 10 min of discussion o or for poster presentation Submissions will be anonymously refereed by at least two reviewers (see the advisory board). Workshop: we invite submission of abstracts For 20 min oral presentation, followed by 10 min of discussion Abstracts are submitted through the EasyAbstracts system of Linguist List. In order to submit, go to the OCP8 submission page before September 20th, midnight: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/OCP8-2011

Instructions for abstract submission

• upload your file to the submission page:

 http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/OCP8-2011

• abstracts are no longer than two pages, with an eventual third page containing examples and references
• submissions are restricted to one single-authored and one co-authored abstract at most
• the conference language is English: abstracts and talks will be in English
• deadline for submission: September 20th, 2010
• page format: A4, 2,54 cm (one inch) margins on all sides, 12-point font, simple line spacing
• file formal: .pdf
• file name
  • submissions for the main conference:
    [title"-main.pdf"], e.g. “Emphasis in Arabic -main.pdf”
  • submissions for the workshop:
    [title"-workshop.pdf"], e.g. “Vowelless syllables in Amazigh-workshop.pdf”

We aim to finalize the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by
mid October 2010, and we will contact those who have sent abstracts as soon as
the decisions have been made.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 20^th September, 2010

Notification of acceptance: 15^th October, 2010

Early registration:  before 15 December, 2010

Workshop/conference: 19/20-22 January 2011