LINGUIST List 22.3157 Mon Aug 08 2011 Calls: Phonetics/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Brian Joseph , Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter Message 1: Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter Date: 08-Aug-2011 From: Brian Joseph <joseph.1osu.edu> Subject: Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium: Melody and Meter Short Title: ILMS Date: 11-Nov-2011 - 12-Nov-2011 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA Contact Person: Brian Joseph Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/LehisteSymposium/ Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: A giant in the field of linguistics at large, and at The Ohio State University, was lost late last year as Ilse Lehiste passed away on Christmas Day, 2010, at the age of 88, succumbing to pneumonia. In memory of our colleague and to commemorate and celebrate her long and productive career, the Department of Linguistics is hosting the Ilse Lehiste Memorial Symposium on November 11-12, 2011. There will be three invited speakers, representing three of the many themes in Ilse’s research: Jaan Ross, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre Janet Fletcher, University of Melbourne Linda Shockey, University of Reading plus sessions of submitted papers on relevant topics. Call for Papers: There is room on the program for more papers so we invite submission of abstracts for presentations of 20 minutes (with 10 additional minutes for questions and discussion) on topics relating to: - Juncture and grouping - Prosody of 'paragraphs' and larger discourse topic structure - Rhythmic typology - Poetry as the crystallization of a language's rhythm - Prosody and music - Prosody of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian - Prosody of Finno-Ugric - Language contact and language rhythm Please send one-page 500-word (maximum) abstracts (with references and key data placed on a second page if needed) abstracts electronically as a pdf file to ilseleling.osu.edu. Alternatively, you may send it via post to Lehiste Memorial Symposium, Department of Linguistics, 222 Oxley Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio USA 43210-1298. The deadline for receipt of your abstract is October 1, 2011. Please include your name, affiliation, and contact information along with the abstract. We will send notifications about acceptances by October 10. For conference information, please consult our website: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/LehisteSymposium Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Aug-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.