LINGUIST List 19.179 Tue Jan 15 2008 Calls: General Ling/Finland; Anthropological Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org> As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html. Directory         1.    Antti Arppe, Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics         2.    Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri, Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium Message 1: Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics Date: 14-Jan-2008 From: Antti Arppe <antti.arppehelsinki.fi> Subject: Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics Short Title: QITL-3 Date: 02-Jun-2008 - 04-Jun-2008 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact Person: Antti Arppe Meeting Email: qitl-3helsinki.fi Web Site: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 11-Feb-2008 Meeting Description QITL-3 is a forum for researchers of linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretically motivated linguistic questions. Second Call for Papers 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) 2-4 June 2008 Helsinki, Finland Invited Speakers Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Gary Marcus, New York University Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign General and background The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki will be co-hosting the Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3), to be held on Mon-Wed, 2-4 June, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. The official website of the workshop is to be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in Osnabrück, Germany (http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/), and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged by SKY (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumia.shtml). Call for Papers Since the turn of the millennium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored, in addition to that linguistic theories and models should be modified or even fundamentally revised, if not also sometimes altogether refuted, to properly reflect the reality of quantitative results. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. As with the previous two QITL meetings, we invite researchers from all linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretical linguistic questions to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The preferred focus is on how one has been able to address a theoretically motivated linguistic question with some quantitative method(s); computational and exploratory approaches may also be of interest if they lead to or shed light on theoretical issues. Furthermore, we welcome studies concerning all media of language use, whether spoken, written or electronic in form. Relevant topics include (but are not by any means limited to) models of lexical, syntactic or pragmatic/prosodic preferences, the nature of linguistic rules/regularities and the lexicon (e.g. morphological productivity), the relationship between language use, linguistic judgements and/or indirect data on language processing, cross-linguistic typological tendencies, first and second language acquisition, diachronic language development, and so forth. Our goal is to continue the workshoppy and conversational form as well as the theoretically and methodologically pluralistic atmosphere of the previous QITL events. Abstracts should be at the maximum 3 pages long (A4, with 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font and single spacing), including all tables, figures and references (corresponding to approximately 1000-1500 words). Electronic submission (in either PDF, PostScript or RTF format) by e-mail to ''qitl-3 at helsinki.fi'' is strongly preferred. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by (at least) two members of the program committee. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 11 February 2008. Important Dates Announcement: 18 October 2007 1st Call for Papers: 19 November 2007 (Monday) 2nd Call for Papers: 14 January 2008 (Monday) Submission deadline: 11 February 2008 (Monday) Notification of acceptance/rejection: week 11/2008 (beginning of March) Event: 2-4 June 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) Program Committee Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Marco Baroni, University of Trento/CIMeC Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrück Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology Juhani Järvikivi, Max Planck Institute/Nijmegen Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Jonas Kuhn, University of Potsdam Merja Kytö, University of Uppsala Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University in Berlin Elena Maslova, Bielefeld University Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki Jussi Niemi, University of Joensuu Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki Yi Xu, University College London Organizing Committee Antti Arppe, University of Helsinki Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University Kaius Sinnemäki, University of Helsinki Contact Information Contact Email: ''qitl-3 at helsinki.fi'' Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ Message 2: Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium Date: 13-Jan-2008 From: Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri <horcuttemail.arizona.edu> Subject: Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium E-mail this message to a friend Message 2: Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium Date: 13-Jan-2008 From: Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri <horcuttemail.arizona.edu> Subject: Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium Date: 09-May-2008 - 11-May-2008 Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA Contact Person: Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri Meeting Email: azanli2008gmail.com Web Site: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/azanli/ Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2008 Meeting Description The Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce a symposium focusing on the intersections of the two fields. We invite the submission of abstracts for papers addressing these interests, which include but are not limited to linguistic variation and change, formal analysis, linguistic documentation and revitalization, interactional, conversation, and discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language contact, and linguistic anthropology. Work submitted in any of these areas may focus on data from any of the core subfields of linguistic analysis: syntax, phonology, phonetics, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. Invited Speakers Jane Hill Susan Philips Keith Walters Claire Bowern Chris Potts Call for Papers Arizona Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium at the University of Arizona May 9-11, 2008 The Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce a symposium focusing on the intersections of the two fields. Abstracts must not exceed two pages in length, minimum 1-inch margins, minimum 12-point font. Send as a PDF to azanli2008gmail.com. 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