LINGUIST List 22.115 Fri Jan 07 2011 Confs: Cog Sci, Phonetics, 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: 07-Jan-2011 From: Phillip Tipton <p.tiptonchester.ac.uk> Subject: Variation and Language Processing 2011 E-mail this message to a friend Variation and Language Processing 2011 Short Title: VaLP 2011 Date: 11-Apr-2011 - 13-Apr-2011 Location: Chester, United Kingdom Contact: Phillip Tipton Contact Email: p.tiptonchester.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://sites.google.com/site/valp2011/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 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) Monday 11th April 2011 11:00-13:00 Registration 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-13:15 Welcome Professor Chris Walsh, Head of the Department of English (University of Chester) 13:15-14:15 Plenary One (Title TBC) Professor Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University) 14:15-14:45 Imaging studies of the processing of propositional and indexical information in speech D. Robert Ladd (University of Edinburgh), Patricia Bestelmeyer (University of Glasgow), Lauren Hall-Lew (University of Edinburgh) and Pascal Belin (University of Glasgow) 14:45-15:15 Acoustic input and articulatory output as the source of sound change - some articulatory evidence. Eleanor Lawson (Queen Margaret University), Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) and James M. Scobbie (Queen Margaret University) 15:15-15:45 Afternoon Tea 15:45-16:15 The effects of gradient phonetic biases on the evolution of sound patterns Marton Soskuthy (University of Edinburgh) 16:15-16:45 The dynamic transfer of VOT patterns in multilinguals Marta Helena Tessmann Bandeira, Márcia Cristina Zimmer and Andreia Rauber (Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil) 16:45-17:45 Plenary Two (Title TBC) Professor David Britain (University of Bern) 18:00 Dinner Tuesday 12th April 2011 09:00-10:00 Plenary Three 'To interact or not to interact?' - a challenging question for sociophonetics Dr Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) 10:00-10:30 The Effect of Speaker Ethnicity on the Perception of 'Ethnic' Socio-Phonetic Variation Christopher M. Stewart (University of Texas, Arlington) 10:30-11:00 Capturing listeners' real-time reactions to local and supralocal linguistic features Kevin Watson (Lancaster University) and Lynn Clark (Lancaster University) 11:00-11:30 Morning Coffee 11:30-12:00 Production and Perception of Retroflex /r/ in São Paulo Portuguese Ronald Beline Mendes and Livia Oushiro (University of Sao Paulo) 12:00-12:30 Phonetic detail and sound change Thaïs Cristófaro Silva and Gustavo Almeida 12:30-13:00 The Production of Spanish-English Code-Switching Amalia Arvaniti and Page Piccinini (University of California, San Diego) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:30 A different kind of variation?: an acoustic phonetic study of Scottish Gaelic vowels Claire Nance (University of Glasgow) 14:30-15:00 The development of intrusive-r in variably-rhotic East Lancashire English William Barras (University of Aberdeen 15:00-15:30 Acoustic evidence for /l/ variation in the repertoire of Welsh-English bilinguals Jonathan Morris (University of Manchester) 15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea 16:00-16:30 Language Processing and Relative Clauses in Dorset English Caroline Piercy (Stanford University), John Rickford (Stanford University), Thomas Wasow (Stanford University) and T. Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester) 16:30-17:00 Socially-motivated garden pathing: When social expectations influence sentence comprehension Kodi Weatherholtz (The Ohio State University) 17:00-17:30 Cognitive analysis of persuasive communication Jens Koed Madsen (University College London) 17:30-18:30 Plenary Four Sources of similarity and individual variation in the acquisition and processing of logical meaning Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) 18:45 VaLP business meeting 19:30 Conference Dinner Wednesday 13th April 2011 08:30-09:00 Salience in language change Marie Jensen (Northumbria University) 09:00-09:30 Variations in the use of 'I' in casually spoken English Michael Pace-Sigge (University of Liverpool) 09:30-10:00 'How can you call yourself a MeFite when you say it like that?!' - Sociophonetic Variation in an Online Community of Practice Kim Witten (University of York) 10:00-10:15 Morning Coffee 10:15-10:45 The role of gender and context in the interpretation of Greek wh-question melodies Mary Baltazani (University of Ioannina), Stella Gryllia (University of Potsdam) and Amalia Arvaniti (University of California, San Diego) 10:45-11:15 Implications of individual variation in socio-cognitive processing on sound change Alan Yu (University of Chicago) 11:15-11:45 Variables as implicit associations Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (The Ohio State University) 11:45-12:15 Vocal aesthetics, sex typicality, and their relationships with voice and phoneme processing Grant McGuire (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Molly Babel (University of British Columbia) 12:15-12:45 Variation and ethnicity in Sheffield English stop consonants Sam Kirkham (University of Sheffield) 12:45-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:00 Lexical effects on incomplete sibilant neutralisation of Taiwan Mandarin Yingshing Li (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 14:00-14:30 Semantic Contextual Cues and Listener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented English Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University) and Page Piccinini (University of California, San Diego) 14:30-15:30 Plenary Five (Title TBC) Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton 15:30 Conference close and afternoon tea on departure Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Jan-2011       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.