LINGUIST List 22.2169 Mon May 23 2011 Calls: General Linguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Luke Amoroso , Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics Message 1: Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics Date: 22-May-2011 From: Luke Amoroso <GURT2012gmail.com> Subject: Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics Short Title: GURT 2012 Date: 08-Mar-2012 - 11-Mar-2012 Location: Washington DC, USA Contact Person: Luke Amoroso Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/index.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 14-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics 2012 Measured Language: Quantitative Approaches to Acquisition, Assessment, Processing and Variation March 8-11, 2012 Website: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/index.html GURT 2012 will bring together researchers presenting replicable methodologies for quantitatively analyzing different facets of language, with an emphasis on sharing and incorporating perspectives and findings across a diverse range of linguistic inquiry. Plenary Speakers: Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University Penelope Eckert, Stanford University Nick Ellis, University of Michigan Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Steven Ross, University of Maryland Call for Papers: Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 14, 2011 We invite proposals relevant to quantitative analyses of all aspects of language, but particularly: - First and Second Language Acquisition - Assessment of Language Learning - Natural Language Processing - Dialect and Register Variation - Corpus Linguistics - Crosscultural Communication - Discourse Analysis - Forensic Linguistics - Identity and Indexicality - Language and Gender - Style Proposals will be blind reviewed for their originality, quality, and breadth of relevance. In addition, colloquium proposals will be evaluated for the coherence and complementarity of their individual presentations. Presenters will be invited to submit written versions of their presentations for inclusion in a volume of selected proceedings. For more information regarding submission and guidelines, please see http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/submission.html Conference email: GURT2012gmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-May-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.