A little poking around the Interwebs reveals that the NAPhC5 program is up. (Did I miss it on LINGUIST List? I don’t think so.) No links to abstracts or anything, but otherwise not a bad-looking website they have up this year.
I’m guessing that the acronym is supposed to be pronounced [ˈnæfsi], but whenever I try to say it, I keep performing these rules (in this order)…
- [±cont] Dissimilation: [+cont] → [-cont] / __ [+cont]
- Place Assimilation: C → [αplace] / __ [αplace]
- Metathesis: [-cont]1 [+cont]2 → [+cont]2 [-cont]1
(Just kidding, folks.)
I’ve always called it /næfk/. Your version is actually a lot nastier before the metathesis rule than after it, at least to Canadian ears.