Don't know if anyone has seen this yet, but it looks relevant to some So Meaners' work. A later email explained that abstracts, and not full papers, are due by Dec 10.<div><br></div><div>K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Phillip Tipton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.tipton@chester.ac.uk">p.tipton@chester.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM<br>
Subject: VaLP 2011 - Call for Papers<br>To: <a href="mailto:VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk">VAR-L@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br><br><br>Apologies for cross-postings.<br>
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VaLP 2011 - Variation and Language Processing: from experimental pragmatics to sound change.<br>
Location: Chester, UK<br>
Date: 11-13 April 2011<br>
Conference contact: Phillip Tipton<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:p.tipton@chester.ac.uk">p.tipton@chester.ac.uk</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://sites.google.com/valp2011" target="_blank">sites.google.com/valp2011</a><br>
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1st Call for Papers<br>
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The issue of variation in the speech signal is becoming increasingly influential in paradigms of language processing which have, hitherto, largely assumed an idealised speaker-hearer as the source and receiver of the signal. Insights from variationist sociolinguistic studies of (mainly) speech production, for example, have demonstrated that structured variation is an inherent property of language performance and the most recent work in sociophonetics has underlined the importance of building variation into adequate models of both speech production and perception. A common theme underlying much work carried within the sociophonetic paradigm is that notion that linguistic and social information are processed in similar ways. This forms part of the wider sociolinguistic concern as to the nature, representation and processing of social meaning Innovative methodologies, including those drawn from experimental psychology, are now being exploited by variationist sociolinguists to better understand the complexities of the relationship between language variation, change and social meaning. Equally, the burgeoning field of experimental pragmatics places at its heart an experimental approach to the the relationship between language and meaning. VaLP 2011 aims to offer an opportunity for linguists and others to present research on the interface between linguistic variation, at all levels of the grammar, and language processing. The conference further aims to act as the catalyst for the launch of an international network of scholars working at the interfaces of their linguistic sub-disciplines, bringing together sociolinguists, psycholinguists and experimental pragmaticians, as well as other linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists working on the relationship between linguistic variation, in its widest sense, and language processing.<br>
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Invited Speakers (more to be confirmed)<br>
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David Britain (University of Bern)<br>
Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)<br>
Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)<br>
Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)<br>
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)<br>
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We invite the submission of abstracts from any area of the language sciences which detail research in keeping with the theme of the conference. Abstracts, which will be peer-reviewed, should be no longer than one side of A4 paper (including references) and may be presented in either .pdf or .doc format. Tables etc. may be presented in an appendix. Abstracts should be anonymous with the author details contained within the body of the email. Please submit abstracts to <a href="mailto:p.tipton@chester.ac.uk">p.tipton@chester.ac.uk</a>.<br>
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Keywords: sociolinguistics; psycholinguistic; experimental pragmatics; phonetics; laboratory phonology; social cognition; language processing.<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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Deadline for submission of paper: 10th December 2010<br>
Notification of acceptance: 3rd January 2010<br>
Conference begins: 11th April 2011<br>
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