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WELCOME TO THE CUNY PHONOLOGY FORUM WEBSITE!The CUNY Phonology Forum is devoted to the promotion of healthy discussion and fruitful pursuit of foundational questions in phonology. Toward that end, the Forum, in partnership with the CUNY MA/PhD Program in Linguistics, organizes conferences and makes the ideas and information developed in them available to the scholarly community. Since its inception in 2003, the Forum has organized four such conferences, the most recent of which was in January 2008. The results of these are available on this web site, as described below. In addition, we are planning the CUNY Conference on the Foot for January 15 - 17, 2009 One of the Forum's strategies for developing useful discussions is to organize conferences around specific topics within phonology, and to invite and encourage participation from scholars who look at each topic from a variety of perspectives. For example, the January 2007 conference addressed precedence relations (i.e., any aspect of temporal or sequential relationships) among phonological elements; there were presentations in several subdivisions of cognitive science, such as formal linguistics, language acquisition, neurolinguistics, psychology, etc. Conferences are organized so as to attract scholars whose ideas are broadly within the penumbra of the topic of each conference. The goal is to explore some specific aspect of phonology as broadly and deeply as possible. Wiki discussion of the motivations for the syllable in phonology.Participants in the 2008 CUNY Conference on the Syllable held a general discussion on the goals of syllable theory. It was agreed that we would open this discussion to the general community; accordingly, the Wiki discussion is now available to the public. Anyone can read the pages on the Wiki and contribute threads; an invitation is required to contribute. Invitations will be made freely available to anyone. Please send an email to syllable at cunyphonologyforum dot net and include the words "wiki invite" in the subject line; an invitation will be sent as soon as one of the organizers logs on next.The following links describe the four conferences cosponsored by the CUNY Phonology Forum and the CUNY MA/PhD Program in Linguistics: CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE FOOTJanuary 15-17, 2009.CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLEJanuary 17-19, 2008.CUNY CONFERENCE ON PRECEDENCE RELATIONSJanuary 25, 26, 2007.CUNY WORKSHOP ON FEATURES IN PHONOLOGICAL THEORYMarch 10-11, 2005.CUNY SYMPOSIUM ON ARCHITECTURE AND REPRESENTATIONS IN PHONOLOGYFebruary 20 - 21, 2004.About the CUNY Phonology Forum.Chuck Cairns is primarily responsible for managing this website and organizing the public events, and Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin) is a major collaborator. The CUNY co-directors are Professors Dianne Bradley and Robert Vago.
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