LINGUIST List 14.71

Thu Jan 9 2003

Calls: Optimality Theory/Multilingual Development

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. jennifer, Variations within Optimality Theory, Sweden
2. j.dewaele, Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development

Stockholm Workshop on Variations within Optimality Theory

Short Title: Variations within OT: 2nd CFP
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: 26-Apr-2003 - 27-Apr-2003 
Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2003

Web Site: http://www.ling.su.se/otworkshop
Contact Person: Jennifer Spenader
Meeting Email: jenniferling.su.se

Linguistic Subfield(s): Linguistic Theories 

Meeting Description: 

Recently there has been a proliferation of different 'dialects' of
optimality theory (OT); e.g. bi-directional optimality theory,
stochastic optimality theory, primitive optimality theory, etc. This
workshop aims to bring together researchers using different forms of
OT in different fields within linguistics, including phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The emphasis
is on how different OT dialects support or fail to support the
analysis of a certain problems in order to make their differences and
similarities more transparent. The characteristics of the different
forms of OT and how they relate to different problems, rather than the
characteristics of the analysed problems themselves, should be the
central focus of submitted abstracts. 


Second call for papers for the Stockholm workshop on:

Variations within Optimality Theory 

We invite abstracts on all topics related to optimality theory,
including, but not limited to:

- comparisons between different forms of OT 
- comparative studies of the same problem within more than one form of OT 
- application of an OT-dialect to a problem in a field new to that dialect 
- discussions of the inability of some forms of OT to handle certain problems 
- discussions of the meta-characteristics of the different types of OT 
- discussions of learning algorithms for different types of OT and how
they measure up with different data
- discussions of computer implementations of OT dialects and their
characteristics

In addition to talks we may also make time for demonstrations of
computer implementations of OT-algorithms.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: 
All authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract. The length
of abstracts for talks should be at most 5 single-column pages (each
accepted talk will have a duration of 30' plus 10'
discussion). Proposals for program demonstrations should be at most 3
single-column pages. All submissions should also include a separate
cover page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and
e-mail address and title of the paper.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX,
postscript, html, ascii, .doc or pdf format) to: otworkshopling.su.se

REGISTRATION: 
The relevant information (fees, booking, etc.) pertaining to that
point can be found at the website (http://www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/)
by following the link to the registration.


IMPORTANT DATES: 
Abstracts due: February 1st 
Acceptance notice: March 1st 
Final version due for proceedings: April 9th 
Workshop dates: April 26-27 

INVITED SPEAKER: 
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam) 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE : 
Paul Boersma (Univ. of Amsterdam), Anders Eriksson (Stockholm Univ.),
Oesten Dahl (Stockholm Univ.), Hanjung Lee (Chapel Hill), Tomas Riad
(Stockholm Univ.), Jennifer Spenader (Stockholm Univ.), Henk Zeevat
(ILLC Amsterdam)

ORGANIZATION: 
The workshop will take place at Stockholm University and the
organizers would like to add that if the weather is good, Stockholm is
beautiful in the Spring. The local organizers are Jennifer Spenader,
Anders Eriksson, and Oesten Dahl.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
News about the workshop will be posted on the workshop's web page at
http://www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/ Questions can be sent to
otworkshopling.su.se.

Information about Stockholm University: 
http://www.su.se

Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development	


Call Deadline: 31-JAN-2003 


Dear colleagues,

We are inviting contributions for a Special Issue entitled
Bilingualism and emotions to be published in the Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2004).

This goal of this Special Issue is to explore the complex interplay
between bi- and multilingualism and emotions in a variety of
contexts. This topic came to the foreground of bilingualism research
only recently (cf. Pavlenko, 2002a, b; Dewaele & Pavlenko, 2002) and
has been previously addressed in a colloquium Bilingualism and
Emotions at the Vigo symposium in 2002. It will also be the focus of
the colloquium Languages and emotions in multilingual contexts at the
Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism, Tempe, Arizona in
April 2003. The Special Issue will include papers presented at these
colloquia as well as papers submitted independently. We welcome both
innovative theoretical treatments and empirical studies.

If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send us by
January 31st, 2003, an e-mail containing the title of your paper, name
and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 300 words, followed
by the author�Euro(tm)s postal and email addresses.

Thank you !

Guest Editors: Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, and Jean-Marc
Dewaele, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Email: apavlenktemple.edu
Email: j.dewaelebbk.ac.uk


References:
Dewaele, J.-M. & A. Pavlenko (2002) Emotion vocabulary in
interlanguage. Language Learning 52, 2, 265-324. 
Pavlenko, A. (2002a) Emotions and the body in Russian and
English. Pragmatics and Cognition, 10, 201-236.
Pavlenko, A. (2002b) Bilingualism and emotions. Multilingua, 21, 1,
45-78.