LINGUIST List 22.697 Thu Feb 10 2011 Confs: Discipline of Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.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.     David Lightfoot , American Association for the Advancement of Science Message 1: American Association for the Advancement of Science Date: 10-Feb-2011 From: David Lightfoot <lightdgeorgetown.edu> Subject: American Association for the Advancement of Science E-mail this message to a friend American Association for the Advancement of Science Short Title: AAAS Date: 17-Feb-2011 - 21-Feb-2011 Location: Washington D.C., USA Contact: David Lightfoot Contact Email: lightdgeorgetown.edu Meeting URL: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/ Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics Meeting Description: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meets in Washington, DC 17-21 February. For details: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/ This not a specialist meeting, but one where linguists address issues of interest to the larger scientific community and the public, and where we have an opportunity to hear colleagues in other disciplines present their work in accessible talks. Section Z has organized five symposia: -Explaining Phase Transitions (organized by David Lightfoot) -From Freud to fMRI: Untangling the Mystery of Stuttering (Nan Bernstein Ratner), -Crossing borders in language science: What bilinguals tell us about mind and brain (Judith Kroll) -Science behind improved foreign language expertise: Meeting the global challenge (Amy Weinberg) -Hunter-Gatherers and Language Change (Claire Bowern). In addition, Colin Phillips is giving a Topical Lecture: 'Linguistic Illusions: Where You See Them, Where You Don't.' Saturday, 19 February NOON-12:45pm. Furthermore, Chair-elect of Section Z Mark Liberman is giving a talk 'Lessons for Reproducible Science from the DARPA Speech and Language Program' in a symposium on The Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer. Saturday, 19th: 1:30pm-4:30pm New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Feb-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.