As recently as last week, the ratio of phonologists to general population in Manchester was unusually high, due to the Manchester Phonology Meeting. This week, on the other hand, the ratio is unusually low, as two of Manchester's resident phonologists have departed to Europe on official phonological business. What business might that be?
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero is in Munich at the invitation of MAMPF / NOSH, the colloquium series organised by the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Ricardo will be speaking to them about "/aɪ/-raising, Stratal Phonology, and the life cycle", offering a radical Manchester-style rethink of a famously tricky sound change, a phenomenon iconic enough to merit its own question in the recent Manchester Phonology Meeting pub quiz, written (we stress!) by an independent Scottish-German quiz master consortium.
Meanwhile Pat Strycharczuk is in Bern on a research visit, as part of a project titled "Between individuality and accent identity in speech". The project, joint with Bern's Adrian Leemann is co-funded by the UKRI and the Swiss National Science Foundation, and it aims to foster research partnerships between UK and Switzerland. Pat has already developed a most successful relationship with Prof Leemann's dog (see featured photo), so the collaboration is off to a great start.
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