Conference on phonological features
San Duanmu went to a feature conference at University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-nouvelle) Oct 4-5. The conference title was ‘Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear‘.
The weather in Paris was great. The conference was a very interesting and focused. All the talks were on features, mostly with an experimental component. The organizers have asked speakers to provide their handouts or PowerPoint files on the internet. So soon they should be available from the conference website:
This conference was a concluding event of a multi-year research project on features at Paris 3. Several PhD students worked on 1-2 features each and presented their works. Ken Stevens also gave a special session on the quantal theory and the latest work by him and his colleagues and students.