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Description: The Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago is pleased to invite abstracts for submission to a symposium entitled "Phonologization" to be held at the University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2008. Explanations for sound change have focused traditionally on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way sounds are analyzed by the listener. While this emphasis on identifying the intrinsic variation in speech has provided important insights into the origins of widely attested cross-linguistic sound changes, the nature of ...
Keywords: phonology