Date: 01-Apr-2010
From: Martijn Wieling <m.b.wieling rug.nll>
Subject: Bloomsday 2010: Echoes of Albion
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Bloomsday 2010: Echoes of Albion
Date: 16-Jun-2010 - 16-Jun-2010
Location: Groningen, Netherlands
Contact: Martijn Wieling
Contact Email: m.b.wielingrug.nl
Meeting URL: http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/bloomsday2010/
Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Meeting Description:
On June 17, 2010 Robert G. Shackleton, Jr., will defend his thesis on
Quantitative Assessment of English-American Speech Relationships at the
University of Groningen. In honor of this event there will be a workshop on June
16, 2010 entitled 'Bloomsday 2010: Echoes of Albion' on the same subject where
several guest speakers will give a presentation. In addition, there will be a
small poster session of about 10 posters about related themes, for example
quantitative analysis of language variation in general or qualitative analysis
of English or American dialects.
The cost:
For participating in the workshop is EUR 20 including lunch or EUR 10 without
lunch. Note that if you would like to join the workshop lunch, you should
register as soon as possible as there are only 30 places available. More
information and the possibility to register can be found on
http://www.let.rug.nl/alfa/bloomsday2010. Please feel free to forward this
announcement to any colleague who might be interested in this event.
10:00
Registration and coffee
10:15
Welcome, Alasdair MacDonald
10.30
Edgar W. Schneider, Regensburg: Number-crunching the Phonology of World Englishes
11:15
Salikoko S. Mufwene, Chicago: Defining the "Feature Pool" for White American English
12:00
Lunch
13:30
Bob Shackleton: Quantitative Assessment of English-American Speech Relationships
14:30
Benedikt Szmrecsányi, Freiburg: Speech Relationships in the HVE Morphosyntax Survey
15:15
Coffee (with possible Poster Session)
16:00
Bill Kretzschmar, Georgia: Complexity in the Relation between British and
American English
16:45
John Nerbonne and Martijn Wieling, Groningen
17:30
Reception (till 18:30)
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