The date for the Special Session is TBA.
Phonological representations are malleable in the sense that they may undergo change. Over the course of L1 & L2 acquisition, long-term representations of phonological categories must be constructed and refined according to experience. In speech, the realization of phones may deviate from stored representations depending on the morphophonological, prosodic, and segmental context. The nature of these changes is not free, but constrained by perception, motor control, abstract computation, and other cognitive biases. In this special session, we aim to discuss the limits on phonological malleability, both over the course of acquisition and within a particular language. We welcome formal, experimental, and computational approaches toward this theme, along with projects that address the following questions:
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