[Somean] Fwd: VaLP 2011 - Call for Papers

[Katie Carmichael]

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.

K

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From: Phillip Tipton <p.tipton at chester.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Subject: VaLP 2011 - Call for Papers
To: VAR-L at jiscmail.ac.uk


Apologies for cross-postings.

VaLP 2011 - Variation and Language Processing: from experimental pragmatics
to sound change.
Location: Chester, UK
Date: 11-13 April 2011
Conference contact: Phillip Tipton
Email: p.tipton at chester.ac.uk
Website: sites.google.com/valp2011

1st Call for Papers

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.

Invited Speakers (more to be confirmed)

David Britain (University of Bern)
Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow)

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 p.tipton at chester.ac.uk.

Keywords: sociolinguistics; psycholinguistic; experimental pragmatics;
phonetics; laboratory phonology; social cognition; language processing.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of paper: 10th December 2010
Notification of acceptance: 3rd January 2010
Conference begins: 11th April 2011

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Katie Carmichael
The Ohio State University
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