BACKGROUND

Given that there are always lots of phonologists in Manchester the day before the Manchester Phonology Meeting starts, we thought that we could make use of this to hold the Phonological Theory Agora (PTA) Dataset Workshop on a classic topic, TERNARITY IN ENGLISH, that we think is still inspiring for theoretical/formal phonologists. This workshop is intended to be a relatively informal venue for discussion and is not part of the mfm - it's just taking advantage of the timing of the mfm to set up a workshop, and everyone is welcome to attend (no registration is needed for attendees or participants). 

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GOAL

The goal of the PTA Dataset Workshop is to promote discussion and theory-oriented debate in an original way. The idea is to collect a dataset and to ask participants to resolve the specific problems that it poses.

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We think that this workshop format (unprecedented in linguistics) is an interesting way to challenge phonologists working within different frameworks to talk about the same empirical problems and directly confront the successes and underpinnings of their formal analyses. 

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WHEN AND WHERE

The PTA Dataset Workshop will meet on Wednesday 24th May 2017 from 2pm to 6.30pm. The Workshop venue is Renold Building, room E7. 

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PROGRAM

The program is available here.

The booklet of abstracts is available here.

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