text_combined: linguistics association great britain linguistics association great britain spring meeting 1999 university manchester first circular call papers 1999 spring meeting held 8 10 april manchester university local organiser philippa cook mfux9phc fs1 art man ac uk manchester england third possibly second biggest city facilities kind music dance theatre restaurants cafes apart vibrant city centre city also benefits closeness beautiful country side lake district peak district mountains north wales within easy reach day trips manchester easily accessed road rail south city major intrnational airport good rail connections city centre university manchester including hall residence conference held situated south city centre busses directions every minutes accommodation accommodation well talks book displays etc hulme hall hall residence less ten minutes walk main university campus bedrooms single choice rooms en suite facilities rooms shared bathrooms showers travel university manchester five minutes drive junction 9 ring road m60 accessible m6 north south m62 north east frequent often direct trains manchester piccadilly manchester victoria big cities britain train journey london takes two half hour airport less half hours drive hall residence also excellent train connections city centre events linguistics association 1999 lecture thursday evening delivered professor john mccarthy university massachusetts amherst professor mccarthy also participating workshop applications optimality theory problems prosody morphology thursday afternoon workshop organised wiebke brockhaus university manchester contributors caroline fery eberhard karls universitaet ren kager universiteit utrecht nicholas sherrard university essex language tutorial turkish given jaklin kornfilt university syracuse wine party tuesday evening sponsored department linguistics enquiries lagb meeting sent meetings secretary address full details programme booking form included second circular sent january call papers lagb warmly welcomes submissions topic within field linguistics theoretical descriptive historical regardless theoretical framework abstracts must arrive 6 january 1999 sent format outlined following address professor r hudson department phonetics linguistics university college london gower street london wc1e 6bt papers programme selected anonymously president knows name authors abstracts must presented follows submit seven anonymous copies abstract plus one name affiliation e cameraready complete abstract containing title name must longer one a4 page 21cm x 29 5cm 8 27 x 11 69 margins least 2 5cm 1 sides may use single spacing type must smaller 12 point type uniformly black make additions black use best quality printer since paper accepted abstract photocopied inserted directly collection abstracts sent participants write name address correspondence back abstract name following layout considered standard title optimality klingon vowel shift speaker clark kent 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