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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:
January 15-17, 2009.
January 17-19, 2008.
January 25, 26, 2007.
March 10-11, 2005.
February 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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