We are pleased to announce that the 12th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP12) will take place in Barcelona from 27 to 30 January 2015.

The pre-conference workshop, with the topic “Exceptionality in phonology” and featuring Kie Zuraw (UCLA) as keynote speaker, will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on 27 January, and will be hosted by the Center for Theoretical Linguistics and the Department of Catalan Philology.

The main conference, with an open topic and featuring Paul de Lacy (Rutgers University) and Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute and Leiden University) as keynote speakers, will be held at the Universitat de Barcelona, from 28 to 30 January, and will be hosted by the Linguistics Section of the Department of Catalan Philology.

The Old World Conference in Phonology is an international phonology conference founded in 2003 by a group of linguists from the Leiden University Center for Linguistics and the Meertens Institute. Since then has been hosted by different European cities, including Leiden, Tromsø, Budapest, Rhodes, Toulouse, Edinburgh, Nice, Berlin, Istanbul and Amsterdam, and, outside Europe, in Marrakech in 2008.