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 five such conferences, the most recent of which was in January 2009. The results of these are available on this web site, as described below. In addition, we are planning the CUNY Conference on the Word 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. The 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.

These conferences are held at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan and typically take place on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before Martin Luther King day, the third Monday in January.

NEW! CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE WORD IN PHONOLOGY, January 14-16, 2010.

The following links describe the five conferences cosponsored by the CUNY Phonology Forum and the CUNY MA/PhD Program in Linguistics:

CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE FOOT

Click here for a list of presentations at the conference, including audio files, handouts/slides, plus whatever other supporting material we have.

January 15-17, 2009.

CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE SYLLABLE

January 17-19, 2008.

CUNY CONFERENCE ON PRECEDENCE RELATIONS

January 25, 26, 2007.

CUNY WORKSHOP ON FEATURES IN PHONOLOGICAL THEORY

March 10-11, 2005.

CUNY SYMPOSIUM ON ARCHITECTURE AND REPRESENTATIONS IN PHONOLOGY

February 20 - 21, 2004.

About the CUNY Phonology Forum.

Chuck Cairns (CUNY) and Eric Raimy (University of Wisconsin) are primarily responsible for managing this website and organizing the public events. The CUNY co-directors are Professors Dianne Bradley and Robert Vago.

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