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Subject: 23.2499, Jobs: Phonetics; Psycholing; Clinical Ling: Two PhD Studentships (fees and support), Queen Margaret U Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. 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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:47:32 From: James Scobbie [jscobbie-Uo7VPy49NVNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Clinical Linguistics: Two PhD Studentships (fees and support), Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2499.html&amp;submissionid=4547021&amp;topicid=7&amp;msgnumber=1 University or Organization: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh Department: Speech and Hearing Sciences Job Location: Scotland, United Kingdom Web Address: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/casl/ Job Rank: Two PhD Studentships (fees and support) Specialty Areas: Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Clinical Linguistics Description: We invite applications for two PhD bursaries, starting September 2012 for 3 years. Applicants may come from any relevant degree course (Masters' level preferred). Proposals relating to any of our existing core research areas will be considered, with priority given to clinical and clinically-related research for at least one of the bursaries. - Speech Sciences - contact jscobbie-Uo7VPy49NVNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Language Impairment - contact aclark-Uo7VPy49NVNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org - Audiology - contact jwhite-Uo7VPy49NVNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Some additional new areas of interest include reaction time and speech articulation in a range of clinical populations, Specific Language Impairment and young offenders, clinical sociolinguistics, and articulation-therapy (EPG or ultrasound) for speakers with hearing impairment. We have world-class phonetics laboratories with a range of video ultrasound, high-speed ultrasound, EPG, two linked Carsten's EMA (at ESPF), video and acoustic analysis possibilities, as well as excellent links with clinical colleagues and academic researchers at other institutions in Edinburgh, and Articulate Instruments Ltd. Full training in the use of relevant experimental and laboratory techniques will be provided. Details of current CASL research publications can be found online at: http://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/view/divisions/casl.default.html and projects/research areas at: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/casl/researchareas.htm Successful candidates will receive: - Full waiver of tuition fees - An annual stipend of £11,500 for 3 years - £2000 over the course of the project for research expenses and travel Applicants: - Must be willing to be resident within reach of Edinburgh. - May come from the UK or any other country. - Must have strong communication skills in both written and spoken English. Institution details and how to apply can be found at the application URL below. Qualified Speech and Language Therapists and Audiologists are encouraged to apply. QMU is one of the Scottish hosts of the 2015 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, to be held in Glasgow, during the period of these studentships, and the city of Edinburgh offers a fantastic context for doctoral research in Linguistics, as well as being a beautiful city. The city and QMU are friendly small places where you will find the support and inspiration you will need to begin a truly innovative research career. Application Deadline: 07-Jun-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/post_research/bursarycomp.htm Contact Information: Prof James Scobbie Email: jscobbie-Uo7VPy49NVNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2499 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T16:48:39 23.2498, Jobs: Japanese; Translation: Consultant Translator, Appen Butler Hill http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37320 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2498. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2498, Jobs: Japanese; Translation: Consultant Translator, Appen Butler Hill Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Sarah Fox &lt;sarah-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 12:34:22 From: Mandy Iverson [miverson-IWAd4ITnb9YVdcoPTgnGn0EOCMrvLtNR&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Japanese; Translation: Consultant Translator, Appen Butler Hill E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2498.html&amp;submissionid=4547073&amp;topicid=7&amp;msgnumber=1 University or Organization: Appen Butler Hill Job Location: Telecommute Web Address: http://www.appenbutlerhill.com Job Rank: Translator Specialty Areas: Translation; Localization Required Language(s): Japanese (jpn) Description: Appen Butler Hill is currently looking for a Japanese Translator/Localizer for an upcoming project involving prompt localization and prompt creation for an advanced dialog system of a Speech Recognition system. The consultant will work remotely for approximately 15 hours per week (20-25 preferred). The contract is expected to begin as soon as possible, and last approximately 8- 10 weeks. Requirements: - Translator with credentials and minimum of 2 years experience Native speaker of Japanese; - Lived in the country at least 5 years in immediate past; - Awareness of social and cultural sensitivities and social media; - Strong familiarity with social media technology and modern society communication methods (e.g. voice recognition and navigation systems); - Prior experience with technical translation, UI translation, and Speech technology programs are a plus. Key Responsibilities: - Localization of English prompts into Japanese - Creation of Japanese prompts based on English input - Composition of grammar specs Additional Information: - Projects require excellent English reading, writing and communication skills. - Strong computer skills in a Windows environment and greater than average comfort with software and technology are expected. - US residents must have US work authorization (US citizen or permanent resident). You will be required to sign a legally binding non-disclosure agreement at the time of contract negotiation. - This is a contract position. Compensation: We offer a competitive, hourly pay rate DOE (to be paid as 1099 self- employment income). To apply, visit the application URL below. Application Deadline: 15-Jun-2012 Web Address for Applications: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=BUTLERHILL&amp;cws=4&amp;rid=321 Contact Information: Mandy Iverson Email: miverson-IWAd4ITnb9YVdcoPTgnGn0EOCMrvLtNR&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2498 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T16:36:51 23.2497, Jobs: General Linguistics: Consultant, Gap International, Pennsylvania, USA http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37319 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2497. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2497, Jobs: General Linguistics: Consultant, Gap International, Pennsylvania, USA Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Sarah Fox &lt;sarah-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:37:51 From: Arsine Oshagan [Arsine.Oshagan-IfG6LAh+DF5TQssBIsK3P1aTQe2KTcn/&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: General Linguistics: Consultant, Gap International, Pennsylvania, USA E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2497.html&amp;submissionid=4547081&amp;topicid=7&amp;msgnumber=1 University or Organization: Gap International Job Location: Pennsylvania, USA Web Address: http://www.gapinternational.com Job Rank: Consultant Specialty Areas: General Linguistics Description: Gap International is a Philadelphia-based global management consulting firm that partners with executives and their organizations in producing exceptional growth through extraordinary performance. We are currently seeking individuals with a bachelor's degree and background in general linguistics to be involved in our research and product development as well as become a member of our dynamic and growing professional team of management consultants. Successful candidates must have formal training and an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a strong interest in the relationship between language and thinking. Candidates must also possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that demands a high level of commitment to one's own continuous growth and development, as well as have a willingness to travel, strong computer skills and a commitment to our firm's values. Work experience in a corporate setting is a plus. The comprehensive growth and development of each and every associate we hire is a top priority of ours. As a highly matrixed organization, we build on our associates' existing skills as well as develop our associates as sales and consulting professionals. 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Application Deadline: 24-Nov-2012 Mailing Address for Applications: Arsine Oshagan, PhD 700 Old Marple Road Springfield, PA 19064 USA Email Address for Applications: arsine.oshagan-IfG6LAh+DF5TQssBIsK3P1aTQe2KTcn/&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Contact Information: Arsine Oshagan Email: Arsine.Oshagan-IfG6LAh+DF5TQssBIsK3P1aTQe2KTcn/&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Fax: 610-328-1092 ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2497 ---------------------------------------------------------- Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:38:31 23.2496, Review: Applied Ling; Language Acquisition; Syntax: Wilder & =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=85farli_?=(2010) http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37318 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2496. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2496, Review: Applied Ling; Language Acquisition; Syntax: Wilder &amp; Åfarli (2010) Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. 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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:29:53 From: Eleonora Luzi [eluzi-O25A4O34T2A1GQ1Ptb7lUw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Chinese Matters: From Grammar to First and Second Language Acquisition E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2496.html&amp;submissionid=4547123&amp;topicid=9&amp;msgnumber=1 Discuss this message: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/get-review.cfm?subid=4547123 Announced at http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2367.html EDITORS: Wilder, Chris and Åfarli, Tor A. TITLE: Chinese Matters: From Grammar to First and Second Language Acquisition PUBLISHER: Tapir Academic Press YEAR: 2010 Eleonora Luzi, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy SUMMARY This volume presents nine studies on Chinese linguistics, ranging from syntax and semantics to first and second language acquisition. Joanna Ut-Seong Sio "The syntax of [+human] terms in Cantonese" Sio's paper deals with the existence of referential expressions in languages lacking DPs or ClPs. Given Abney's (1987) hypothesis that the DP is the locus of referential properties, article-less languages, like Chinese, have to encode referentiality somewhere else. Sio analyzes a particular kind of nominal in Cantonese, those which contain the particle "aa" (aa-nominals). She first identifies two kinds of aa-nominals: aa1 nominals, which behave like bare nouns in identifying reference and in their predicativeness, and aa2 nominals, which behave differently. If an aa1 particle, added to aa1 nominals, is a lexical item which does not affect syntax but simply behaves like a filler, an aa2 particle, in contrast, is a syntactic item: it is generated in D and selects an NP as a complement. Indeed it (a) is related to referential properties and (b) does not contain a ClP. When an aa2 is added to a common noun or a kinship term, it makes them radically definite. Likewise, when it is added to a proper name, which is definite but still can be forced to have a common noun reading, this coercion is no longer possible. Moreover, aa2 nominals are resistant to modification. Sio concludes her analysis claiming that aa2 heads a functional projection that is related to referential properties; in other words, it can be considered as the head of a DP. Tor A. Åfarli &amp; Fufen Jin "The syntax of presentative sentences in Norwegian and Mandarin Chinese: Toward a comparative analysis?" Åfarli and Jin's paper is an interesting analysis of Chinese and Norwegian presentative structure. These constructions seem to be structurally quite similar, but a closer examination reveals important differences. The comparison between the Chinese "you"-structure and the Norwegian "be"-construction highlights the fact that only the Norwegian structure is existential, whereas the Chinese one is essentially possessive. Despite this difference in meaning, they can both be represented through a post-verbal small clause. Moreover, Åfarli and Jin propose that Norwegian and Chinese motion presentative structures, despite their similarity in meaning, should be represented differently. Consistent with the "be"-type structure, the Norwegian motion-type ("komme"-type) presentative can be represented through a post-verbal small clause. Chinese motion-type ("lai"-type) presentative constructions, conversely to "you"-type possessive structures, contain a direct object. This implies a Chinese-internal partition in that "you"-type structures, being possessive in meaning, contain a small clause, whereas the "lai"-type structures contain a direct object. Norwegian, on the other hand, represents both types of presentative, the "be" and "komme" types, with a post-verbal small clause. Chris Wilder "Chinese Relatives and the Coda Construction" Wilder presents a semantic analysis of the Chinese coda construction and interprets it as a restrictive relative construction on the basis of a comparison with the integrated verb second (IV2) German construction. Current proposals consider the coda construction as a paratactic construction (Li &amp; Thompson, 1981) or a secondary predication (Huang, 1987). Both proposals explicitly reject the restrictive relative interpretations since in Chinese a modification of an NP is expected to precede the NP. Starting from an analysis of the IV2 construction, Wilder draws a comparison with the Chinese coda construction. Indeed, like the German construction, the Chinese coda construction requires the nominal modified by the second clause to be an infinitive. The explanation given by Gärther (2001) of indefinite-only restriction in IV2, applied to the Chinese coda construction by Wilder, is that the coda can only be assertional and the NP modifiable only by a non-presuppositional coda. Supporting the German parallel, Wilder also invokes the role of intonation. As in IV2, the Chinese coda construction is pronounced within a single intonation unit, like restrictive relative clauses. Relying on the German-Chinese parallel, Wilder refutes Li and Thompson's proposal about coda construction presentatives. Moreover, Wilder rejects the secondary predication analysis on the basis that if the coda were a secondary predication it would presumably be an adjunct adjoined to the VP or IP. As such it would semantically modify the VP or the IP. Thomas Hun-tak Lee "Nominal Structure in Early Child Mandarin" Lee's contribution is on the acquisition of nominal structure in early L1 Mandarin. The late appearance of determiners in Mandarin, as well as in other languages like English and German, does not fit well with nativist assumptions. Besides other attempts at reconciliation, Lee supports the weak continuity view. In his study he explores early nominal structure in child Mandarin, focusing on whether the full-fledged NP is present, when numerals and classifiers appear, how the mapping between syntactic form and referentiality takes place and whether the earliest uses of numeral phrases are referential or non-referential. Lee addresses the research questions by analyzing longitudinal data from two Mandarin speaking children. The results underline the fact that, with respect to argument nominals, structures containing classifiers appear a few months later than the first nominals (bare nouns, proper nouns, and demonstrative locatives). The general delay is explained by the fact that children are able to manage number words before they can learn the syntax of classifiers. From the classification of predicates and nominals emerges the fact that only some nominal structures are used as arguments as well as predicates. This means that children from the earliest stage are sensitive to form-meaning mapping. Moreover, children seem to use early numeral phrase structures first with a non-specific reference, contradicting the widespread idea that referentiality is unmarked. This should not be surprising since number words are probably introduced to mark numerosity. The data lead Lee to formulate a developmental hypothesis made up of two stages. In stage 1 the NP is preceded just by the Specificity Phrase which can bear [+specific] as well [-specific] features. After a few months the NumeralP and ClP appear, between the SpP and NP, for purposes of enumeration. Miao-Ling Hsieh "Post-verbal Locative/Directional Phrases in Child Mandarin: A Longitudinal Study" Hsieh's study is concerned with the syntax and semantics of post-verbal "zai" and how children acquire it. Post-verbal "zai"-constructions can have a locative and a directional meaning. Based on the use of post-verbal "zai" phrases, Hsieh identifies five types of verbs that can occur with it, with or without constraints, and cannot occur with it. Therefore, according to Hsieh's analysis, the acquisition of post-verbal "zai" means that children have to learn whether a verb allows a locative "zai" post-verbally and what constraints the verb has on the place noun to yield a directional reading. The study is based on longitudinal data of a Chinese speaker videotaped until the age of 5;10. The results indicate that the child makes errors with the locative "zai" until 3;10 and errors with the directional "zai" up till 5;8, showing that he first acquires the knowledge that only a special class of verbs allow post-verbal "zai" to be locative and then he learns that if post-verbal "zai" is directional, it is sensitive to different verb types. Yi-ching Su "Temporal reference of bare verbs in Mandarin child language" Bare verbs in Mandarin Chinese are interesting in the context of recent research about non-finite forms in child utterances around the ages of 2/3 years, including verbs lacking tense and agreement marking. This phenomenon, known as the Root Infinitive phenomenon, has been investigated in other languages like English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, etc. The research questions arise from the interesting literature overview; in particular, Su's concerns are about whether bare verbs are present in Mandarin, being a language without overt tense and agreement marking; whether bare sentences allow present, past, or future event reference; whether they allow imperatives like rich inflectional morphology languages do; whether bare verbs show an eventive vs. non-eventive contrast; whether there exists a correlation between temporal reference and telicity; and lastly whether bare sentences in child Mandarin come mostly with null or overt subjects. The case study carried out by Su on one subject confirms that bare sentences have temporal references (present, past, future); there is a correlation between telic predicates and past tense and atelic predicates and present tense or a modal reading. Moreover, it emerges that overt subjects gradually increase as a child grows up. Fufen Jin, Kristin M. Eide &amp; Tor A. Åfarli "Pro-drop in Mandarin-Norwegian Bilinguals" Jin, Eide, and Åfarli's paper contributes to the debate about the two competing positions on bilingual development: autonomous development and interdependent development. The paper investigates the pro-drop properties in Norwegian-Mandarin bilinguals born into Chinese-speaking immigrant families in Norway. The literature review points out that cross-linguistic influence manifests itself in the form of transfer, but also in the forms of acceleration/delay and in quantitative differences. Several studies have investigated pro-drop in child language when co-occurring with root structures so it is generally linked to verbal inflection. The data of this study come from a Mandarin-Norwegian bilingual and were collected in a Mandarin context and in a Norwegian context. Results highlight the fact that there is cross-linguistic evidence in terms of transfer, since the subject uses topic chains and topic linked object drop in Norwegian, and in terms of quantity, since he drops subjects at a much higher rate than monolingual Norwegian children. Moreover, he does it more when talking to other bilingual children. Mónica Cabrera &amp; Nicholas Usaj "The L2 Acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese Perfective Marker -- le by L1 English Speakers" Cabrera and Usaj's paper deals with the L2 acquisition of the Mandarin particle "le" by L1 English speakers. The main concerns of the authors are the influence of learning context and the non-equivalence in conveying completed actions between the two languages: the particle "le" and the English past tense work differently. Textbooks and manuals are careful to underline these differences but they do not explain in which aspects they differ. Moreover, instructors do not give many details to learners, and learners have to rely only on positive evidence. This leads the authors to hypothesize that study abroad program learners should master "le" better than at-home learners since they can take advantage of input exposure. The hypothesis is then verified with 25 English learners of Mandarin and five Mandarin native speakers. Five learners took part in the summer study program, five in a semester study program and five were at-home learners. They took a multiple choice test where they had to choose the correct Mandarin translations of English sentences. A one-way ANOVA revealed there was not a statistically significant difference for the correct use of "le", but there was a significant difference for the correct absence of "le." Moreover, looking at the means, it is clear that when not using "le" is the acceptable choice, there is a difference between one experimental group and the native speakers, suggesting that at-home learners tend to oversupply "le" to contexts in which it is not acceptable. So the more time spent abroad, the better the mastery of the perfective "le." Fufen Jin "Ultimate L2 Acquisition of the Chinese BA Construction: Two Case Studies" Jin's paper deals with the L2 acquisition of the complex "ba" construction, focusing on its syntactic and semantic constraints. It generates an inversion of the object, called the ba-object, so that the final word order in the "ba" construction is NP-(Neg)-ba-VP-X. The research questions deal with the learners' awareness of the kind of object the ba-NP is in its non ba-counterpart: a V-object (a direct object, indirect object, and instrumental/locative object) or a V'-object (an indirect object in a ditransitive construction). The research questions deal also with the semantic constraints of the "ba" construction: the ba-NP must be definite and the entire action describes something affected. A final concern is about the age effect on ba-construction acquisition. Two Norwegian advanced learners of Mandarin and 20 Mandarin Chinese speakers took an acceptability judgment test. One participant learned Mandarin as an adult and she now lives in Norway even though she does not miss any occasion to speak Chinese; the other one was born in China, lived in Beijing up to seven years of age, went back to Norway but returned to China where she now lives. They performed differently in two aspects of the test: they were both aware of the kind of object the ba-NP was in the non-ba counterpart of the sentence given in the test, but one learner accepted preverbal negation (meiyou + VP) and showed that she was not aware of the affectedness constraint. The first issue seems to depend on the "formulaic" nature of meiyou +VP, so that the leaner remembered it easily and even extended it to ungrammatical contexts. These differences in the results may be considered an effect of the learners' age: only the learner who started learning Chinese in her early childhood has successfully acquired the whole set of properties of the ba-construction. EVALUATION This volume gathers papers presented at CHINOSAT 2 (Workshop on Comparative Chinese -- Norwegian Syntax, including Acquisition Topics), held in Trondheim, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) on October 1-2, 2009. Like the first edition of the Conference (CHINOSAT 1), the second meeting was also preceded by a volume edited by researchers of the NTNU. As the editors say in the Introduction, linguistic considerations about Chinese and Norwegian are quite new and therefore they suggest interesting and challenging areas of research, in particular from the comparative and acquisitional points of view. The idea of comparing Norwegian to Chinese is interesting due to both an external reason, China being a new world power, and an internal reason, given the genetic and morphological differences between Chinese and Norwegian. Chinese is, indeed, an interesting language of comparison with European languages, both from a syntactic point of view and from an acquisitional point of view. It is no longer considered an exotic language, from which one can get interesting counterexamples to overly European-centric linguistic considerations, and it is probably this new linguistic position that has led researchers, in recent years, to carry out numerous and interesting studies dealing with Chinese and its contributions to linguistic and applied linguistic research (Biq, 2002; Erbaugh, 2002; Gong, 2010; Wu, 2001). This volume fits perfectly into the panorama. Moreover, the comparison with Norwegian looks promising in revealing interesting and innovative contributions to linguistic research. The heterogeneous contents of the volume allow coverage of several aspects of the languages involved: reports of syntactic analyses follow semantic ones, L1 acquisition studies precede L2 acquisition ones. Moreover, no linguistic topic investigated in one paper is investigated in another paper of the volume, so that the book can give the reader a complete panorama of the most interesting aspects of the Chinese language in comparison to Norwegian, and sometimes to English. Together with traditional linguistic issues, like the "ba"-construction or the particle "le", other topics, less investigated in the literature, like coda constructions, the preventative construction, or the post-verbal "zai" are investigated. The choice to also include a paper about Cantonese should be highlighted and appreciated since it reminds readers that the Chinese language should not always be identified with Putonghua (Modern Standard Mandarin). The heterogeneity of the volume, however, can disappoint the reader who expects a consistent analysis of linguistic aspects ranging from syntactic/semantic analyses to acquisition investigations. On the contrary, each contribution stands alone and deals with different aspects of linguistic research. As is always the case in miscellaneous volumes, the limited space obliges the authors to leave aside numerous aspects that would have otherwise deepened the studies. Indeed, sometimes the reader is left wondering what the results would have been if the sample had been wider, or if the sample had included speakers with different L1s as a control group. I would consider the volume a collection of good starting points for further and future research. This is true in particular for the acquisitional studies. Indeed, even though the papers deal with particular cases of bilinguals (Norwegian-Chinese bilinguals), probably not so frequent, or in general with Norwegian learners of Chinese, the participant samples are often limited, with the only exception being Cambrera and Usaj's work: the two children in Lee's and Jin's studies, and the one child in Hsieh's, Su's, and Jin, Eide, and Åfarli's studies. Therefore, they should predominantly be considered case studies, very useful in future research planning or in extending research. Despite this, every author achieves his/her goal and tries to answer his/her research questions. I would recommend this volume to all researchers who want to work with Chinese from a comparative point of view, in particular within a generativist approach and on the topics investigated in the volume. Applied linguists who work with bilinguals and with learners of Chinese in particular will find this volume interesting. REFERENCES Abney, Steven. 1987. The English noun phrase in its sentential ASPect. MA: MIT dissertation. Biq, Yung-O. 2002. Classifier and Construction: the Interaction of Grammatical Categories and Cognitive Strategies. Language and Linguistics 3(3). 521-542. Erbaugh, Mary S. 2002. Classifiers are for specification: complementary functions for sortal and general classifiers in Cantonese and Mandarin. Cahiers de Linguistique -- Asie Orientale 3(1). 33-69. Gong, Jiang Song. 2010. Chinese classifiers Acquisition: Comparison of L1 Child and L2 Adult Development. Missoula: University of Montana. Huang, C.-T. James. 1987. Existential sentences in Chinese and (in)definiteness. In: E. Reuland &amp; A. ter Meulen (eds.), The representation of (in)definiteness. MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. 226-253. Li, Charles &amp; Sandra Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: a functional reference grammar. University of California Press: Berkeley/Los Angeles. Wu, S. L. 2001. Learning to express motion events in an L2: The Case of Chinese Directional Complements. Language Learning 61(2). 414-454. ABOUT THE REVIEWER Eleonora Luzi received a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Roma Tre with a dissertation on the acquisition of complex constructions in L2 Italian. Her research interests are Second Language Acquisition, L2 Italian, acquisition of syntax, and assessment and testing. She now works at the L2 Italian Certification Office of the University of Roma Tre. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2496 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:31:24 23.2495, Confs: Applied Ling/Macedonia http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37317 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2495. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2495, Confs: Applied Ling/Macedonia Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. 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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:21:37 From: Aneta Naumoska [a_naumoska-FFYn/CNdgSA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: 7th ELTAM-IATEFL-TESOL International Conference: Continuing Professional Development E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2495.html&amp;submissionid=4547072&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 7th ELTAM-IATEFL-TESOL International Conference: Continuing Professional Development Short Title: ELTAM Date: 27-Oct-2012 - 28-Oct-2012 Location: Skopje, Macedonia Contact: Jagoda Trajcova Contact Email: eltamconferencesecretary-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Meeting Description: The English Language Teachers' Association of Macedonia (ELTAM) would like to invite you to our 7th International Biannual Conference that will take place in Macedonia on October 27-28, 2012. The aim of the conference is to enable EL teaching professionals from Macedonia as well as from other countries to develop professionally by sharing their experience and ideas in all areas of ELT (Young Learners, ICT, ESP, etc.). Continuing professional development is essential to our profession and we need to take any opportunity that arises to learn something new and apply it in our daily teaching. With this in mind we want to offer you one such opportunity and enable you to go back to your classrooms with some new ideas and practical activities. Format: Presentations, workshops, plenary sessions, commercial presentations, exhibition, Pecha Kucha Event - Pearson Longman, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, American Corner, Universities in Macedonia Guests/Plenary Speakers: Tony O'Brien, Raymond Kerr (others to be announced) Please contact Jagoda Trajcova for more information on the application and registration process, at the email: eltamconferencesecretary-/E1597aS9LRfmgfxC/sS/w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Closing date for registration of speakers: July 15, 2012 Closing date for registration of participants: September 15, 2012 International participants - members of ELTAM partner organizations pay the local fee for members (please bring your membership card or letter confirming you are a member of your national association). 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Subject: 23.2494, Confs: Computational Ling/Canada Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:20:16 From: Lynne Cahill [L.J.Cahill-AzqoChGEdPuFxr2TtlUqVg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2494.html&amp;submissionid=4547103&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology Short Title: SIGMORPHON 2012 Date: 07-Jun-2012 - 07-Jun-2012 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact: Lynne Cahill Contact Email: sigmorphon2012-DClhDEb7Mf710XsdtD+oqA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Meeting URL: http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Meeting Description: 12th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology, Phonology and Phonetics SIGMORPHON 2012 NAACL 2012 Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 7, 2012 One of the missions of SIGMORPHON is to encourage interaction between work in computational linguistics and work in theoretical phonetics, phonology and morphology, and to ensure that each of these fields profits from the interaction. Our recent meetings have been successful in this regard, and we hope to see this continue in 2012. Many mainstream linguists studying phonetics, phonology and morphology are employing computational tools and models that are of considerable interest to computational linguists. Similarly, models and tools developed by and for computational linguists may be of interest to theoretical linguists working in these areas. This workshop provides a forum for these researchers to interact and become exposed to each other's ideas and research. This workshop will be the twelfth meeting of SIGMORPHON (formerly called SIGPHON). We will hold a full-day workshop consisting of approximately 12 half-hour presentations. The workshop will be held on June 7, immediately after the NAACL 2012 meeting at Le Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Canada. The workshop website is http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/research/sigmorphon2012/. The organizers can be contacted at sigmorphon2012-DClhDEb7Mf42Hvz0r4duyA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Thursday June 7, 2012 9:00 Welcome 9:15-9:45 A Morphological Analyzer for Egyptian Arabic Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander and Abdelati Hawwari 9:45-10:15 Hindi Derivational Morphological Analyzer Nikhil Kanuparthi, Abhilash Inumella and Dipti Misra Sharma 10:15-10:30 Discussion 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:30 Phrase-Based Approach for Adaptive Tokenization Jianqiang Ma and Dale Gerdemann 11:30-12:00 A Regularized Compression Method to Unsupervised Word Segmentation Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chiung-Min Tsai and Jieh Hsiang 12:00-12:30 A rule-based approach to unknown word recognition in Arabic Lynne Cahill 12:30-12:45 Discussion 12:45-2:00 Lunch 2:00-2:30 Bounded copying is subsequential: Implications for metathesis and reduplication Jane Chandlee and Jeffrey Heinz 2:30-3:00 An approximation approach to the problem of the acquisition of phonotactics in Optimality Theory Giorgio Magri 3:00-3:30 Learning probabilities over underlying representations Joe Pater, Robert Staubs, Karen Jesney and Brian Smith 3:30-4:00 Coffee break 4:00-4:30 Linguistic categorization and complexity Katya Pertsova 4:30-4:45 Discussion 4:45-5:15 Business meeting (all are welcome to attend) ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2494 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:20:46 23.2493, Confs: Cognitive Science, General Ling/Netherlands http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37315 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2493. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2493, Confs: Cognitive Science, General Ling/Netherlands Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:18:38 From: Rosie van Veen [r.vanveen-qTWcuMntz1Q&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: LOT Summer School 2012 E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2493.html&amp;submissionid=4547107&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 LOT Summer School 2012 Date: 02-Jul-2012 - 13-Jul-2012 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Contact: Rosie van Veen Contact Email: r.vanveen-qTWcuMntz1Q&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Meeting URL: http://www.lotschool.nl/files/schools/2012_Zomerschool_Utrecht Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics Meeting Description: The Netherlands National Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) presents the LOT Summer School 2012. This summer school for the training of graduate students in linguistics will take place from 2-13 July 2012 and will be hosted by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The school includes several masterclasses for advanced PhD-students. This year's edition includes two special teaching-tracks: - A Language, Brain and Cognition session (LBC) sponsored by NCU. Teachers include Gina Kuperberg (Harvard), Naomi Feldman (Maryland), John Trueswell (Upenn), and Colin Phillips (Maryland). There is a special rate available for students who only wish to enroll for the LBC courses. - A Bilingual SLI session sponsored by COST. Teachers are Patrick Rebuschat (Bangor), Sharon Armon Lotem (Bar-Ilan), Zofia Wodniecka (Krakow), Theo Marinis (Reading), and Vicky Chondrogianni (Bangor). Students who enroll for these courses can apply for COST student support. Registration closes on June 1. Students are encouraged to present their work during the poster session. Students may present a poster with original work, try-out their poster for an upcoming conference, or present a poster from a previous conference. You can find the schedule, registration form and more information on our website: http://www.lotschool.nl/files/schools/2012_Zomerschool_Utrecht ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2493 ---------------------------------------------------------- Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:19:24 23.2492, Confs: Ling & Literature/UK http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37314 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2492. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2492, Confs: Ling &amp; Literature/UK Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:16:57 From: Daniel Z. Kadar [d.z.kadar-5q84U3Io2aNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Stylistics: Anglo-French Perspectives E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2492.html&amp;submissionid=4547122&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 Stylistics: Anglo-French Perspectives Date: 07-Jun-2012 - 08-Jun-2012 Location: Huddersfield, United Kingdom Contact: Daniel McIntyre Contact Email: D.McIntyre-5q84U3Io2aNaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Linguistic Field(s): Ling &amp; Literature Meeting Description: This 1-day event brings together leading researchers from the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and the French Société de Stylistique Anglaise (SSA), with the aim of forming closer connections between these two organisations. It follows a successful joint symposium at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, organised by the SSA in September 2011. This latest symposium focuses on the differences and commonalities of practice that exist in English and French stylistics. The language of the symposium is English. Programme Thursday 7 June 2012 4.00pm - 6.00 Registration and welcome 6.00 Stylistic analysis on the qui vive Mick Short (Lancaster University), Dan McIntyre (University of Huddersfield) and Lesley Jeffries(University of Huddersfield) 7.00 Dinner at a local restaurant Friday 8 June 2012 9.00 am Tea/coffee and registration 9.30 - 10.10 Pierre Bourdieu and the analysis of political discourse in France Luc Benoit a la Guillaume (Université de Paris X, Nanterre) 10.10 - 10.50 Patterns of fictional speech in Dickens's novels: a corpus approach Michaela Mahlberg (University of Nottingham) 10.50. - 11.30 'On macrostylistics' Simone Rinzler (Université Paris Ouest) 11.30 - 12.00 Tea/coffee 12.00 - 12.40 Key concepts and characterisation: a corpus stylistic analysis of the character/narrators in Julian Barnes' Talking It Over Brian Walker (University of Huddersfield) 12.40 - 1.20 Ego, hic et nunc in John McGahern's 'That They may Face the Rising Sun' Vanina Jobert-Martini (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) 1.20 - 2.30 Lunch 2.30 - 3.10 Dialogic consciousness in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow: a stylistic analysis of manuscript corrections on the cathedral episode Violeta Sotirova (University of Nottingham) 3.10 - 3.50 The singular voice of the first person plural in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic Manuel Jobert (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) 3.50 - 4.30 George Moore's Revisions of Esther Waters: A Neo-Gricean Reading Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool) 4.30 - 5.00 Tea/coffee 5.00 - 5.40 Non-linear syntax: an analysis of Virginia Woolf's style from the perspective of French linguistics Linda Pilliere (Aix Marseille Université) 5.40 - 6.20 Just what is narrative urgency? Paul Simpson (Queen's University Belfast) 6.30 - 7.00 Wine reception followed by dinner at a local restaurant ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2492 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:17:45 23.2491, Diss: Syntax: Huhmarniemi: 'Finnish A'-movement: Edges and islands' http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37313 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2491. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2491, Diss: Syntax: Huhmarniemi: 'Finnish A'-movement: Edges and islands' Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. 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Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:15:30 From: Saara Huhmarniemi [saara.huhmarniemi-pxSi+dnQzZMxHbG02/KK1g&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Finnish A'-movement: Edges and islands E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2491.html&amp;submissionid=4547101&amp;topicid=14&amp;msgnumber=1 Institution: University of Helsinki Program: Cognitive Science Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2012 Author: Saara Huhmarniemi Dissertation Title: Finnish A'-movement: Edges and islands Dissertation URL: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-7712-8 Linguistic Field(s): Syntax Dissertation Director(s): Anne Vainikka Pauli Brattico Dissertation Abstract: This thesis investigates Finnish interrogative sentences and similar consructions from the perspective of biolinguistics and the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, Chomsky 2000). Finnish interrogatives display one of the elementary properties of natural language: grammatical movement from one position to another. The movement of the question phrase in an interrogative sentence can be seen as an instance of a more general A′-movement that is typically triggered by discourse factors. The aim of this thesis is to establish an overall view to the A′-movement phenomena in Finnish that functions as a basis for future research on these topics. The focus of the investigation is on two syntactic phenomena: the syntactic edge position that is the target of A′-movement and island conditions that restrict movement to this position. In Finnish interrogative sentences, the question phrase targets the edge of a finite clause. However, the presence of an edge position can be observed in a variety of phrases in Finnish. A particular emphasis of this thesis is on phrases that undergo pied-piping, that is, movement of a larger constituent that contains the interrogative element. It is argued that the position of the wh-phrase at the edge is a necessary pre-requisite for pied-piping in Finnish wh-questions and relative clauses. With this respect, Finnish follows the existing cross-linguistic generalizations on pied-piping. Furthermore, the Finnish recursive pied-piping displays properties of successive cyclic movement via edges of pied-piped phrases, resulting to a form of snowball movement. As a result of a detailed investigation on the syntactic constructions, this thesis provides an inventory of pied-piped phrase types in Finnish and a discussion on the different mechanisms for obtaining the edge position among phrases. Among the island phenomena investigated are the adjunct island condition and constraints on subject extraction. It is proposed that Finnish obeys the adjunct island condition and the availability of subject extraction is sensitive to the presence of subject-predicate agreement, displaying a form of anti-agreement effect. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2491 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:16:05 23.2490, Calls: Language Acquisition, Discipline of Linguistics/UK http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37312 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2490. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2490, Calls: Language Acquisition, Discipline of Linguistics/UK Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:07:55 From: Clare Wright [clare.wright-pyHcBy/D9uhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Methodology in Applied Generative SLA: Current Practices in Analysing Second Language Development E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2490.html&amp;submissionid=4547104&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: Methodology in Applied Generative SLA: Current Practices in Analysing Second Language Development Date: 25-Jun-2012 - 25-Jun-2012 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Contact Person: Clare Wright Meeting Email: clare.wright-pyHcBy/D9uhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Language Acquisition Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2012 Meeting Description: Free national workshop to explore and add to current debates in applied generative SLA by: 1. Investigating current challenges and innovations in analysing generative SLA in instructed or other applied contexts, especially in tracking second language development over time 2. Evaluating best practice for methodologies of data collection and analysis for applied generative SLA 3. Identifying training requirements to update expertise for faculty and research students 4. Building sustainable long-term pathways for third-strand engagement and impact, especially for language teachers Keynote talk from Professor Florence Myles, Essex University: 'Comparing various elicitation techniques for work on generative SLA' Location: Research Beehive, Newcastle University, UK Date: Monday 25 June 2012, 9.30-5pm Registration is free, but please confirm attendance at http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=3214 Workshop facilitators: Clare Wright and Martha Young-Scholten Workshop supported by Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences (CRiLLS) Call for Papers: We invite contributions for short papers (15-20 minutes) which will form the basis of round-table discussion sessions (approx. 50 minutes overall). Topics in line with the general methodological focus on the workshop are welcome, but especially papers focusing on: - Developmental research, e.g. measures of increasing fluency, longitudinal change in linguistic competence,or - Connecting classroom instruction with SLA theory Abstracts, one page maximum, should be emailed to: Clare Wright (clare.wright-pyHcBy/D9uhaa/9Udqfwiw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org). Deadline: 5pm, 5 June 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2490 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:08:46 23.2489, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology/Germany http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37311 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2489. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2489, Calls: Phonetics, Phonology, Typology/Germany Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:04:26 From: Heriberto Avelino [heriberto_avelino-WIzSxt/3aFiELgA04lAiVw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Workshop 'Tone: Theory and Practice' E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2489.html&amp;submissionid=4547121&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: Workshop 'Tone: Theory and Practice' Date: 28-Sep-2012 - 29-Sep-2012 Location: Leipzig, Germany Contact Person: Heriberto Avelino, Ian Maddieson Meeting Email: heriberto_avelino-WIzSxt/3aFiELgA04lAiVw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Web Site: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_Tone/index.html Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology; Typology Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2012 Meeting Description: The department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, invites participation for a workshop titled 'Tone: Theory and Practice' to be held at the Institute on September 28-29, 2012. Confirmed invited speakers are: Jack Gandour (Purdue University) Dan Dediu (MPI, Nijmegen) Carlos Gussenhoven (Radboud University) John Esling (University of Victoria) Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico) Organised by: Heriberto Avelino (MPI EVA) Ian Maddieson (UNM) Local Organizer: Claudia Schmidt (MPI EVA) Call for Papers: This workshop has as its main goal to be a 'state of the art' meeting of researchers to discuss and summarize contemporary thinking on tone from both empirical and theoretical perspectives. We invite contributions surveying general aspects of tone production, tone perception and tone system typology. The scope of the workshop will also cover relationships between tonal phenomena and other aspects of prosody, as well as genetic, neurological and physiological factors relevant to tone. In addition, discussion of areal patterns in tonal phonology, and descriptions of tone in individual languages or language families are encouraged. We invite submissions in the form of anonymous one page abstracts (single-spaced 12-point text, either A4 or US Letter size), with an optional additional page of references and figures, to be submitted via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ttp2012 by July 30, 2012. The program will consist of both oral and poster presentations, and will run for two full days. Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 13, 2012. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2489 ---------------------------------------------------------- Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T15:05:48 23.2488, Calls: Phonetics, Socioling, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/Poland http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37310 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2488. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2488, Calls: Phonetics, Socioling, Applied Ling, Language Acquisition/Poland Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:48:49 From: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak [ewaklim-672ECUWIpyGrDJvtcaxF/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Accents in Contact E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2488.html&amp;submissionid=4547106&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: Accents in Contact Short Title: Accents 2012 Date: 06-Dec-2012 - 08-Dec-2012 Location: Łódź, Poland Contact Person: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak Meeting Email: accents-672ECUWIpyGrDJvtcaxF/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Web Site: http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2012 Meeting Description: 'Accents' is an annual conference organized by the Department of English Grammar and Phonetics at the University of Łódź, Poland. It brings together researchers and teachers interested in native and non-native accents of English approached from a theoretical and practical perspective. Among many issues discussed each year, the characteristics and the dynamism of accent usage in natural as well as formal teaching contexts come into the foreground, with a growing interest in the methodology and tools for accent studies. The main focus so far has been on accents of English; this year, while continuing to discuss accents from the sociophonetic, psychophonetic and didactic perspectives, we propose to widen the scope of our discussion to include the effects of accent contact not only on Engli sh, but also other languages, with the leading theme of 'Accents in Contact'. Keynote speaker: James E. Flege, University of Birmingham, Alabama, USA Special session: English accents in Europe: Euro-English(s)? Convenor: Una Cunningham, University of Stockholm, Sweden Call for Papers: We invite proposals for papers, workshops and posters related to the main 'Accents in Contact' theme as well as other issues related to native and non-native accents of English, including, but not limited to the ones mentioned below: - The effect of other languages on the acquisition and usage of English - The effect of English accents on the acquisition and usage of other languages - Accents in English around the world, 'New Englishes', 'Euro-Englishes', etc. - Variability in accents of English - Native- non-native accent continuum - Accents in EFL/ESL/ELF - Methodology and tools for accent studies - Teaching accents/the pronunciation of English Please notice that each author can propose two contributions if one is intended for the main conference and the other one for a special session. Papers are given 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion, workshops will typically have 45 minute slots. Please specify the intended presentation format in your proposal. The deadline for abstract submission is September 30, 2012. Please send two copies of an abstract of up to 400 words (excluding references) to accents-672ECUWIpyGrDJvtcaxF/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, with the intended format, name and affiliation written under the title in one copy. The proposals will go through the process of peer review, after which notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 21, 2012. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2488 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T14:50:01 23.2487, Calls: Cognitive Science, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics/UK http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37309 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2487. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2487, Calls: Cognitive Science, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics/UK Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:47:25 From: Hae-Sung Jeon [neuralspeech-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2487.html&amp;submissionid=4547071&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication Date: 26-Jun-2012 - 26-Jun-2012 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact Person: Hae-Sung Jeon Meeting Email: neuralspeech-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Web Site: http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/cgworkshop/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Call Deadline: 28-May-2012 Meeting Description: We are delighted to announce a one-day workshop on Neural Systems for Speech Communication to be held at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK, on 26 June 2012. The focus of the workshop is on representations and neural mechanisms for segmentation, abstraction, and categorisation in speech processing. Our invited speakers are: Kai Alter (University of Newcastle) Matt Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford) The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion between researchers who approach the neurocognitive processing of suprasegmental and segmental information in speech from different intellectual contexts (notably linguistics, audition, language psychology, and cognitive neuroscience), and with different methodologies. Workshop Format: A number of key papers will explore the theme of the workshop from different angles, complemented by poster presentations that add breadth or depth to the discussion. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with the invited speakers and the audience towards the end of the day. The discussion will explore commonalities and differences in theoretical and methodological approaches and their findings, trying to work towards a synthesis. Organisers: Brechtje Post, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Francis Nolan, Bettina Beinhoff, Hae-Sung Jeon, Toby Hudson This workshop is funded by the ESRC grant 'Categories and Gradience in Intonation: Evidence from Linguistics and Neurobiology' (RES-061-25-0347; PI Post, CI Stamatakis). 2nd Call for Papers: Extended abstract submission deadline: 28 May 2012 We invite papers which address the theme of the workshop: - Abstracts should be uploaded on or before 28 May 2012 to: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/cgworkshop2012 - Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words, in pdf or doc (but not docx) format, with 2.5cm or one inch margins, single-spaced, and with a font size of 12pt. - Your abstract should be anonymous. You will be asked to submit a version with your name and affiliation on it if your abstract is selected for presentation. Please make sure that you do not use your name in the filename for your abstract, and please erase any details which might identify you in the file that you submit. Use one word from your abstract's title as the filename. - If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, please either embed it in a pdf file, or use the Doulos SIL font: http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSIL_download. Abstracts will be considered for oral or poster presentations, but please note that only very few slots are available for oral presentation. If you wish your abstract to be considered for poster presentation only, please indicate this when submitting your abstract. Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions. Paper acceptance notification will be sent by email by 4 June 2012. Information on registration, workshop programme, accommodation and conference dinner will appear on http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/cgworkshop/. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2487 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T14:48:04 23.2486, All: This Week's LINGUIST Notice Board http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37308 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2486. Fri May 25 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. 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Subject: 23.2485, Confs: Computational Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/New Zealand Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 09:35:33 From: Ingo Plag [plag-oc88fmwvUm+YZcam4c5EtgVYOax+ENnS&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Data-Rich Approaches to English Morphology E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2485.html&amp;submissionid=4547102&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 Data-Rich Approaches to English Morphology Short Title: DRAEM Date: 04-Jul-2012 - 06-Jul-2012 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Contact: Laurie Bauer Contact Email: Laurie.Bauer-O5iVTVtUEt6lVyrhU4qvOw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Meeting URL: http://www2.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/draem/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Meeting Description: Data-Rich Approaches to English Morphology: From Corpora and Experiments to Theory and Back Recent work on English morphology has shown that morphological theory as well as the understanding of the morphological systems of particular languages can profit immensely from the study of large data sets that have become available through corpora and experiments. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers that entertain data-rich approaches to English morphology to advance our understanding of this language and of morphological structure in general. Invited Speakers: Adam Albright Akiko Nagano Christina Gagné Emmanuel Keuleers Ingo Plag Laurie Bauer Melanie Bell Rochelle Lieber Victor Kuperman Wednesday, July 4, 2012 9.20 Opening 9.30 Christina L. Gagné &amp; Thomas L. Spalding, University of Alberta Conceptual productivity: The role of relational meaning construction in the comprehension of novel and established noun compounds 10.15 Melanie Bell &amp; Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Anglia Ruskin University &amp; Universität Siegen English compound stress in an analogical model of word formation 11.00 Break 11.30 Tutorial Adam Albright, MIT The Minimal Generalization Learner 12.15 Lunch 14.00 Elizaveta Tarasova, Victoria University of Wellington Position-bound and /or relation-bound? The productivity of nouns as constituents of compounds. 14.45 Victor Kuperman, McMaster University Spelling of English noun-noun compounds and its implications for word production and recognition 15.30 Break 16.00 Emmanuel Keuleers, Ghent University From data-driven linguists to data-driven models: Some issues in building computational models of inflectional morphology Thursday, July 5, 2012 9.30 Natalia Beliaeva, Victoria University of Wellington The power of slanguage: Conceptual integration on the word formation level 10.15 Sabine Arndt-Lappe &amp; Ingo Plag, Universität Siegen Phonological variability in English blends 11.00 Break 11.30 Tutorial Emmanuel Keuleers, Ghent University Memory-based Learning Free afternoon (Excursion) Friday, July 6, 2012 9.30 Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire The case of the missing nominalization: an exploration of how far data-rich approaches can take us 10.15 Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington Grammaticality, acceptability and the notion of possible word 11.00 Break 11.30 Tutorial Victor Kuperman, McMaster University Eye-tracking in morphological research 14.00 Adam Albright, MIT Measuring the unobservable: quantifying paradigm gaps and morphological retreat 14.45 Akiko Nagano, University of Tsukuba Doing morphology with the OED: A data-rich approach to English affixation 15.30 Break 16.00 Jen Hay, University of Canterbury Spoken Morphology: Investigating the implementation of plural /s/ in a large corpus of historical New Zealand English ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2485 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-25T13:36:50 23.2484, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Poland http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37306 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2484. Thu May 24 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2484, Confs: Linguistic Theories/Poland Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:41:27 From: Hedde Zeijlstra [zeijlstra-V/Xpf/srekw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Central and Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2484.html&amp;submissionid=4546963&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 Central and Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar Short Title: EGG Date: 23-Jul-2012 - 05-Aug-2012 Location: Wroclaw, Poland Contact: Hedde Zeijlstra Contact Email: summerschool-wVol95ssi0Q&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Meeting URL: http://egg.auf.net Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories Meeting Description: We are pleased to announce this year's Central European Summer School in Generative Grammar (also known as the Egg), to be held in Wroclaw, Poland from July 23th - August 5th Registration is taking place at: http://egg.auf.net/ where more detailed information is available. Deadline for application: May 30th Students from former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe can apply for financial support (covering travel, visa and/or accommodation expenses). There will be an introductory and an advanced track. The list of courses is appended below. Intro classes: Shanti Ulfsbjorninn - Introduction to the operation(s) of phonology Silke Hamann - An introduction to sound change Yuni Kim - Introduction to autosegmental phonology and tone Dennis Ott - Introduction to syntax (10 classes) Michelle Sheehan - Word order: from typology to theory Heather Burnett - Introduction to quantification in natural language Topical classes: Paul Boersma - Neural network models of phonology and its interfaces Peter Szigetvári - The skeleton: its contents, its shape, its function Shanti Ulfsbjorninn - Parse by feature checking: or 'All roads lead to CVCV' Yuni Kim - Long-distance interactions in phonology Bartosz Wiland - The syntax of Slavic prefixes Dennis Ott - Peripheral syntax Heather Burnett - Event structure and the semantics of resultatives Michelle Sheehan - Parameter hierarchies: the case of Case Remus Gergel - Diachronic change in structure and the interfaces (10 classes) Roumyana Pancheva - Syntax and semantics of comparatives and superlatives Barbara Tomaszewicz, Roumyana Pancheva - Experimental studies in syntax and semantics (10 classes) ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2484 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-24T19:41:58 23.2481, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37305 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2481. Thu May 24 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2481, Calls: General Linguistics/Belgium Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:46:14 From: Daniela Rossi [drossi-gFQn2mEGIOGzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Total Reduplication: Morphology, Pragmatics, Typology E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2481.html&amp;submissionid=4547070&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: Total Reduplication: Morphology, Pragmatics, Typology Date: 18-Nov-2012 - 19-Nov-2012 Location: Brussels, Belgium Contact Person: Daniela Rossi Meeting Email: drossi-gFQn2mEGIOGzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2012 Meeting Description: We are happy to announce the workshop 'Total Reduplication: Morphology, Pragmatics, Typology' that will take place in Brussels on November 18-19, 2012. Contact: Daniela Rossi, drossi-gFQn2mEGIOGzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Website: http://redup.ulb.ac.be Workshop Scope: Reduplication, the linguistic process consisting in the iteration of a word or a part of a word is widely attested across languages, and has always prompted interest in morphology, phonology, pragmatics, linguistic typology, and cross-cultural linguistics. This workshop will focus on 'total reduplication', that is, reduplication of an entire lexical word. The specific interest of total reduplication lies in the fact that it is realized both for morphological/semantic purposes (new word formation) and pragmatic purposes (conveying implicated meanings). One of the chief question raised by total reduplication is what are the links between 'frozen' reduplications, i.e. fixed expressions whose meaning is linked to the reduplicated form (as so-so in English or dare-dare in French), and more creative uses. A related topic is the relationship between total reduplications and the meaning of the word taken in isolation. Other issues may be concerned with how total reduplication depends on the grammatical category of the reduplicated word (nouns, adjec tives, verbs, adverbs) and/or under the scope of negation. Some of these features may contribute to define different kinds of total reduplications. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in linguistics to discuss total reduplication from different points of views, in order to give a coherent and articulated characterization of this topic. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Mark Dingemanse, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Silvia Kouwenberg, University of West Indies, Mona Thomas Stolz, Universität Bremen 2nd Call for Papers: In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will feature contributed papers. We welcome submissions of abstracts for 20-minute papers that focus on any aspect of total reduplication. Important Dates: Deadline for abstracts: July 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2012 Conference: November 18-19, 2012 Abstract Format: - Only electronic submissions are accepted. 
 - Abstracts should be submitted to the email address: drossi-gFQn2mEGIOGzQB+pC5nmwQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org, with the following subject line: 'Submission-Total reduplication'.
 - The abstracts should be sent as an attachment to an email message, in either MS Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
 - The length of the submissions is a maximum of two A4 sides, using 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins and a 12 pt font. Each abstract should clearly indicate the title of the talk, and may include references. - The body of the email message should contain the following information: The name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, title of the paper and contact details (postal and email address).
 - A maximum of one submission as author, and one as co-author will be considered. ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2481 ---------------------------------------------------------- Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-24T15:46:49 23.2483, FYI: Language and Ecology Research Forum http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37304 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2483. Thu May 24 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2483, FYI: Language and Ecology Research Forum Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Brent Miller &lt;brent-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:55:33 From: Arran Stibbe [astibbe-aeD8tjstRqu1Qrn1Bg8BZw&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Language and Ecology Research Forum E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2483.html&amp;submissionid=4547003&amp;topicid=6&amp;msgnumber=1 The Language and Ecology Research Forum has recently been relaunched with a redesigned website and a new research network of 183 members. Members are linguists interested in the impact of language on the ecosystems which support life, from analysis of how consumerist discourses encourage ecological destruction to how nature poetry can promote respect for the natural world. The Forum includes a dedicated mailing list for the latest news from the world of ecolinguistics, an extensive collection of articles on ecolinguistic topics, and other resources for researchers such as bibliographies and course information. 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Subject: 23.2482, Calls: Spanish, Galician, Basque, Valencian, Language Acquisition/Spain Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee &lt;alison-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:47:48 From: Maria-José Ezeizabarrena [mj.ezeizabarrena-+ngl/9zrRLQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: AEAL 2013 Bilbao 7th International Conference on Language Acquisition E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2482.html&amp;submissionid=4547061&amp;topicid=3&amp;msgnumber=1 Full Title: AEAL 2013 Bilbao 7th International Conference on Language Acquisition Short Title: AEAL2013 Date: 04-Sep-2013 - 06-Sep-2013 Location: Bilbao, Spain Contact Person: Patricia Briñas Meeting Email: info-BggrWbCTl0RDRrE817/W+A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Web Site: http://www.aealbilbao.com/ Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Subject Language(s): Basque (eus) Galician (glg) Spanish (spa) Valencian (cat) Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2013 Meeting Description: The Association for the Study of Language Acquisition AEAL (Asociación para el Estudio de la Adquisición del Lenguaje) is oriented to the study of the acquisition and learning of Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque languages by children and adolescents. Its triennial conference is a great occasion for meeting experts in language acquisition working in a varied set of areas such as grammar, lexicon, discourse, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, language didactics and pedagogy. This conference will deal with issues concerning oral and written language comprehension, production and processing in the following areas: Phonetic and phonological development Lexical-semantic development Morphosyntactic development Discourse and pragmatic development Atypical language development Didactic intervention and language development Sign languages development VII AEAL Conference will focus its attention on language research dealing with the bilingual and multilingual and acquisition of any of the four languages of reference and other languages in contact with any of them as well, especially on studies involving a minorized language. AEAL 2013 is organized by HIJE (Language Acquisition and Use) UPV/EHU research group with the help of UNESCO Chair of World Language Heritage (http://www.unesco-hizkuntza-katedra.ehu.es). Call for Papers: Three Forms of Participation: Oral Presentations: This format is best suited to the presentation of theoretical or empirical completed research. Paper presentations are 20 minutes and are followed by 10 minutes for questions and comments from the audience. In the case of conceptual research, the proposal should discuss an approach or a critical issue, and provide significant new insights. In the case of empirical studies, the proposal should in general include objectives of the study, study design and methods, results, and conclusions. The proposal must not exceed 300 words. A 100-word abstract of the proposal is also needed for inclusion in the conference program. Symposia: Symposia involve multiple presenters focusing on a single theme and are best suited for the discussion of research, theory, practice and associated issues. They should offer complementary or differing perspectives on an important topic or issue that can stimulate wider discussion rather than be a series of independent presentations. Symposia are restricted to 90 minutes, including up to four individual presenters, a moderator and an independent discussant. An organizer may also act as a participant or moderator. Evidence of careful planning for the implementation of the symposium (e.g., goals, timing, summaries of perspectives, etc.) should be included in the proposal. The proposal should include a 350 word summary of the topic, focusing on how the perspectives represented in the individua l papers are complementary or distinct. In addition, abstracts of individual papers not exceeding 300 words each should be included. Posters: Posters provide an opportunity to present research in progress and to participate to junior researchers. Posters are displayed on a specific day. Presenters should be available to discuss their work and answer questions. The summary must not exceed 300 words. A 100-word abstract of the proposal is also needed for inclusion in the conference program. Note that a blind review process will be employed. Hence, any information that might identify author(s) must be omitted from the summary and the abstract. Abstracts should be submitted online: http://www.aealbilbao.com/ Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2482 ---------------------------------------------------------- </pre> linguist-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ< at >public.gmane.org 2012-05-24T15:49:10 23.2480, Confs: Language Acquisition/Portugal http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.linguist-list/37302 <pre>LINGUIST List: Vol-23-2480. Thu May 24 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 23.2480, Confs: Language Acquisition/Portugal Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U &lt;aristar-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U &lt;hdry-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison &lt;reviews-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Homepage: http://linguistlist.org The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available! https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang &lt;xiyan-lfQs2E/hpTzxJdLaGvDiSQ&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; ================================================================ LINGUIST is pleased to announce an exciting service: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:21:47 From: Ana Lúcia Santos [als-frzO0QKoCs0&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Romance Turn V E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2480.html&amp;submissionid=4547068&amp;topicid=4&amp;msgnumber=1 Romance Turn V Date: 02-Jul-2012 - 04-Jul-2012 Location: Lisbon, Portugal Contact: João Costa Contact Email: romanceturnv-3uDi59ucxCHQUPosyRRdSA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Meeting URL: http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/linguistica/romanceturn2012/ Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition Other Specialty: Romance Languages Meeting Description: The Romance Turn V (Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages) Lisbon, Portugal 2-4 July 2012 The Romance Turn will be organized by CLUNL/FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CLUL - Universidade de Lisboa, and will take place in Lisbon (Portugal). It aims to gather people working on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. Invited Speakers: Letícia Sicuro Corrêa (PUC - Rio de Janeiro) Philippe Prévost (Universté François Rabelais - Tours) Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Program July, 2nd - Monday 9.00 - 9.40 Features and (re-)assembly in L2 Spanish: evidence from the syntax and semantic of adjectives Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes 9.40 - 10.20 Cross-linguistic influence in the DP: a study in trilingual acquisition Megan Devlin, Raffaella Folli, Alison Henry &amp; Christina Sevdali 10.20 - 11.00 On the acquisition of Romanian pseudopartitives Mihaela Tanase-Dogaru 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee-break 11.30 - 12.10 Early Scope Assignment: epistemic modals and negation in Italian L1 Vincenzo Moscati 12.10 - 12.50 VP-ellipsis comprehension in European and Brazilian Portuguese Ruth Lopes &amp; Ana Lúcia Santos 12.50 - 14.30 Lunch 14.30 - 15.10 Discursive feature specification of the pronouns hura and bera in child (L1, L2) and adult Basque Maialen Iraola, Maria José Ezeizabarrena &amp; Mikel Santesteban 15.10 - 15.50 The bound interpretation of the proform 'ele' in Brazilian Portuguese: Experimental studies with adults and children Karina Gomes Bertolino &amp; Elaine Bicudo Grolla 15.50 - 16.30 Investigating the syntax-discourse interface with learner corpora: overt and null pronominal subjects in advanced L2 Spanish in the CEDEL2 corpus Cristóbal Lozano 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee-break and Poster session 1 17.00 - 18.00 Invited speaker: Philippe Prévost (t.b.a.) July, 3rd - Tuesday 9.00 - 9.40 Heritage speakers' knowledge of Spanish clitic-doubled dislocations Roumyana Slabakova, Tania Leal-Medez &amp; Jason Rothman 9.40 - 10.20 Acquiring PP relatives: romance and semitic João Costa, Naama Friedman, Carolina Silva &amp; Maya Yachini 10.20 - 11.00 To Move or not to move? The role of optionality in the acquisition of A'-dependencies in French Anamaria Bentea &amp; Stephanie Durrleman 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee-break 11.30 - 12.10 Developing the IP from romance to English: a minimalist account Francesco Bryan Romano 12.10 - 12.50 Germanic compounds in Romance child languages Jacopo Torregrossa 12.50 - 14.30 Lunch 14.30 - 15.10 Some remarks on the acquisition of clefts: spontaneous and elicited production Maria Lobo, Ana Lúcia Santos &amp; Carla Soares 15.10 - 15.50 The acquisition of passives in Italian: auxiliaries and answering strategies in an experiment of elicited production Francesca Volpato, Laura Verin &amp; Anna Cardinaletti 15.50 - 16.30 L2 children embed normally, but children with SLI do not Maureen Scheidnes &amp; Laurice Tuller 16.30 - 17.00 Coffee-break and poster session 2 17.00 - 18.00 Invited speaker: Letícia Sicuro Corrêa Interface information and processing cost in a procedural model of language acquisition grounded in minimalist assumptions: implications to typical and impaired language development July, 4th - Wednesday 9.00 - 9.40 On the importance of conjugation groups in the acquisition of L1 and L2 French Alexandra Marquis &amp; Phaedra Royle 9.40 - 10.20 The acquisition of morphology and prosodic constraints by bilingual Italian-German children Sascha Gaglia, Janet Grijzenhout &amp; Anne Gwinner 10.20 - 11.00 The acquisition of word-final consonants in a bilingual learner of French and European Portuguese Letícia Almeida 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee-break 11.30 - 12.10 Invited speaker: Yvan Rose (t.b.a.) Poster Session 1 Accusative clitics - a linguistic marker of developmental dyslexia and/or SLI in Romanian? Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco &amp; Ioana Stoicescu Interpretation of clitic, strong and null pronouns by typically-developing Portuguese children: interface issues Carolina Silva The OPC in Hispanic heritage speakers in Canada Ewelina Barski Universal quantification in Catalan SLI Anna Gavarró &amp; Anna Lite Subject and object clitic pronouns in the monolingual and bilingual acquisition of Italian and Venetan dialects Anna Cardinaletti &amp; Anna Fabris The relevance of aspectual and semantic features for the comprehension of short passive sentences involving agentive and non-agentive verbs João C. de Lima Júnior &amp; Marina R. A. Augusto The early processing of interface information pertaining to complementizers and clause boundaries in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese Tatiana Bagetti Poster Session 2 Differential processing cost in the comprehension of object relative clauses and WH-questions by Portuguese-speaking language impaired children Vanessa Gouveia Ribeiro &amp; Letícia S. Corrêa Relative clauses - a linguistic marker of developmental dyslexia and SLI in Romanian? Anca Sevcenco, Larisa Avram &amp; Ioana Stoicescu Preposition Stranding in Heritage-Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese Simone de Lemos &amp; Ellen Thompson German word order in L1 Spanish as a heritage language by simultaneous bilinguals and the effects of specific didactic materials Izarbe García Sánchez Constrast acquisition: the case of French Christophe dos Santos Infant's perception of intonation: is it a statement or a question? 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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:18:09 From: Kristen Holding [kholding-HQyJVwiL+fUAvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org] Subject: Intercultural Communication: Scollon, Scollon, Jones E-mail this message to a friend: http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-2479.html&amp;submissionid=4546946&amp;topicid=2&amp;msgnumber=1 Title: Intercultural Communication Subtitle: A Discourse Approach Series Title: Language in Society Publication Year: 2012 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com Book URL: http://www.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?0470656409 Author: Ronald Scollon Author: Suzanne Wong Scollon Author: Rodney H. Jones Paperback: ISBN: 0470656409 9780470656402 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 44.95 Abstract: Note: This is a copy of a previously published book. The third edition of this lively introduction serves as a guide to the main concepts and problems of intercultural communication. 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