LINGUIST List 12.2908

Tue Nov 20 2001

Calls: Optimality Theory Stress, Spanish Socioling

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

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1. Hansang Park, 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS by Texas Linguistics Society
2. Lotfi Sayahi, First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

Texas Linguistics Society

2002 Texas Linguistics Society Conference



The University of Texas at Austin

March 1-3, 2002



Invited Speakers: Bruce Hayes and Megan Crowhurst





Second CALL FOR PAPERS





We invite anonymous abstracts for twenty-minute talks followed by 10
minute discussion. Abstracts should be related to stress within the
framework of Optimality Theory. Abstracts must not exceed one page in
length (11 point font, 1 inch margins in all directions). A second
page is allowed for data and references. Authors may submit at most
one individual and one joint abstract. Joint abstracts should
designate one address for communication with TLS.

Only e-mail submission of abstracts will be accepted. They must be
submitted as attachments to an e-mail message. They may not be
contained within the body of a message. The body of the message should
include all information listed in 1-5 below.



Author Information

1. Name(s) of author(s)

2. Title of paper

3. Affiliation(s)

4. E-mail address(es)

5. Postal address(es)



Please use 'TLS2002_Abstract' as the Subject header. Abstracts must be
submitted in either Word document or PDF format. No other formats will
be accepted. We will acknowledge the receipt of abstracts by e-mail.

Electronic submissions of abstracts and all queries should be directed
to the TLS 2002 e-mail address:

tlsuts.cc.utexas.edu

Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 1, 2001

Please visit our web site for more information

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2002tls/index.html

Call for papers: First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the
University at Albany (State University of New York) is pleased to
announce its First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics March 14th &
15th, 2002. The focus will be on:

a. Dialectical variation of Spanish: both at the geographic and the
social level.

b. Spanish in contact including:
* Spanish in contact with other languages:

 1. In Spain: Contact with Basque, Catalan, Galician, Valencian, etc.
 2. In South America: contact with indigenous language including Mayan
	languages, Belize, Quechua, Aymara, Tupi-Guarani, etc.
 3. Elsewhere: Contact with Portuguese, Arabic, Philippine languages

* Spanish/English bilingualism in the US: both in the case of heritage
	speakers and emigrants.

We welcome original papers (30 minutes in length) on any situation of
dialectal variation, language contact, and bilingualism that involves
Spanish. Abstracts should be submitted via email to Lotfi Sayahi
sayahialbany.edu no later than January 15, 2002. Please include:

1. title of the paper
2. author(s)'s name
3. author(s)'s affiliation
4. one-page abstract
5. a 100-word summary.

Send enquiries to: Sayahialbany.edu