LINGUIST List 21.3653 Thu Sep 16 2010 Calls: Cog Sci, Psycholing, Socioling/United Kingdom Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: 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! Directory         1.    Phillip Tipton, Variation and Language Processing 2011 Message 1: Variation and Language Processing 2011 Date: 15-Sep-2010 From: Phillip Tipton <p.tiptonchester.ac.uk> Subject: Variation and Language Processing 2011 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Variation and Language Processing 2011 Short Title: VaLP 2011 Date: 11-Apr-2011 - 13-Apr-2011 Location: Chester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Phillip Tipton Meeting Email: p.tiptonchester.ac.uk Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/valp2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: The issue of variation in the speech signal is becoming increasingly influential in paradigms of language processing which have, hitherto, largely assumed an idealised speaker-hearer as the source and receiver of the signal. Insights from variationist sociolinguistic studies of (mainly) speech production, for example, have demonstrated that structured variation is an inherent property of language performance and the most recent work in sociophonetics has underlined the importance of building variation into adequate models of both speech production and perception. A common theme underlying much work carried within the sociophonetic paradigm is that notion that linguistic and social information are processed in similar ways. This forms part of the wider sociolinguistic concern as to the nature, representation and processing of social meaning. Innovative methodologies, including those drawn from experimental psychology, are now being exploited by variationist sociolinguists to better understand the complexities of the relationship between language variation, change and social meaning. Equally, the burgeoning field of experimental pragmatics places at its heart an experimental approach to the the relationship between language and meaning. VaLP 2011 aims to offer an opportunity for linguists and others to present research on the interface between linguistic variation, at all levels of the grammar, and language processing. The conference further aims to act as the catalyst for the launch of an international network of scholars working at the interfaces of their linguistic sub-disciplines, bringing together sociolinguists, psycholinguists and experimental pragmaticians, as well as other linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists working on the relationship between linguistic variation, in its widest sense, and language processing. Invited Speakers (more to be confirmed) David Britain (University of Bern) Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University) Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona) Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) Call For Papers We invite the submission of abstracts from any area of the language sciences which detail research in keeping with the theme of the conference. Abstracts, which will be peer-reviewed, should be no longer than one side of A4 paper (including references) and may be presented in either .pdf or .doc format. Tables etc. may be presented in an appendix. Abstracts should be anonymous with the author details contained within the body of the email. Please submit abstracts to p.tiptonchester.ac.uk. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.