This conference will evolve around sound patterns in endangered languages. Call for papers is open to any research subject – ongoing or completed – that addresses phonology and phonetics in endangered languages, from any possible perspective. Special attention will be drawn to understudied languages.

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The conference will also feature a panel on urban field work from the Endangered Languages Alliance (ELA). Created by two linguists, Professor Daniel Kaufman from New York University, Juliette Blevins from the Linguistics Department of the Leipzig Max Planck Institute, and poet and Professor Bob Holman, ELA aims to list, document and encourage the revitalization of the several endangered languages spoken in NYC.

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ELA’s work was recently the subject of an article published in the New York Times and the French review Courrier international. (more info here).

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The actual call for papers is accessible on the CUNY Phonology Forum website

Abstract proposals should be submitted in English by September 1st, 2010 to: endan@cunyphonologyforum.net (subject: “abstract”)

The conference is organized by three departments of the City University of New York (CUNY): The Programme of Linguistics, the Phonology Forum and the Endangered Languages Initiative.

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It will be held from January 12 to 14, 2011, at:

CUNY Graduate Center,

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, USA