The Ninth Old World Conference in Phonology

The ninth edition of the Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9) will take place at the ZAS in Berlin, on 18-21 January 2012.

Local organizing committee

  • Laura J. Downing (ZAS, Berlin)
  • Annie Rialland (LPP, Paris)
  • Jochen Trommer (Leipzig)
  • Ruben van de Vijver (Uni Potsdam)
  • Marzena Zygis (ZAS, Berlin)

It will follow in the line of previous OCP conferences which have been held in Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh, Nice and Marrakech.

The main conference will focus on the interfaces between phonology and other areas of linguistics (phonetics, morphology, semantics, pragmatics), but abstracts can be submitted on any topic in phonology.  There is also a one-day thematic pre-conference workshop on ‘The Phonology-Syntax Interface’ organized by the SynPhonI project.

Keynote speakers for the workshop and main conference:

  • Caroline Féry (Uni Frankfurt)
  • Edward Flemming (MIT)
  • Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris)
  • Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)

Registration: closed