LINGUIST List 22.2960 Tue Jul 19 2011 Confs: Phonetics, Phonology, Lang Acquisition/ South Carolina Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.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.     D. Eric Holt , Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2012 Message 1: Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2012 Date: 18-Jul-2011 From: D. Eric Holt <holtsc.edu> Subject: Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2012 E-mail this message to a friend Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology 2012 Short Title: CASPSLP2012 Date: 16-Feb-2012 - 19-Feb-2012 Location: Columbia, South Carolina, USA Contact: D. Eric Holt Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.cas.sc.edu/ling/activities/CASPSLP2012/ Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology Subject Language(s): Portuguese; Spanish Meeting Description: The third bi-annual CASPSLP conference will be held at the University of South Carolina, February 16-19, 2012. (The first CASPSLP was held at the University of Minnesota in 2008; the second at the University of Florida in 2010.) The conference aims to showcase approaches to and findings of the study of second language phonology. The presentations will include a wide range of contexts, from acquisition of Spanish phonology by English speakers to the acquisition of Portuguese phonology by Spanish speakers; from classroom-based learning to full immersion in the culture of the second language; and all other related topics. By focusing on the breadth of approaches that scholars are taking to the study of second language phonological acquisition in Spanish and Portuguese, this conference aims to represent the state-of-the-art in second language phonological acquisition. The conference will open with a series of workshops on experimental methods and research tools, and will include sessions on Praat, ultrasound and fMRI. Abstracts are invited for presentations on any topic related to the second language acquisition of the Spanish and Portuguese sound systems, and the theme is intended to be construed as broadly as possible. The aim is to include in the conference a wide range of approaches to the study of second language phonology, as well as a wide range of contexts, from acquisition of Spanish phonology by English speakers to the acquisition of Portuguese phonology by Spanish speakers, from classroom-based learning to full immersion in the culture of the second language, to name just a few of the possibilities. Anonymous one-page abstracts (with a second page allowed for references and/or examples) should be submitted through EasyAbs. Abstracts may be submitted as Word or PDF documents. Please embed any special fonts. Each author may submit at most one abstract as sole author and one jointly authored abstract. Please visit the CASPSLP2012 Easy Abs page: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=0802J84658764A5A408040441 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Jul-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.