LINGUIST List 4.915

Thu 04 Nov 1993

Calls: Second Language, Prosodic Phonology, Foreign Language

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1. Jean-Marc Dewaele, 4th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association
2. , CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP IN "PROSODIC MORPHOLOGY"
3. Greg Stump, Call for Papers (Kentucky Foreign Language Conference)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association /
Quatrieme Conference Annuelle de l'EUROSLA

September 8 - 10, 1994 to be held at the Universite de Provence,
Aix-en-Provence, France.

The official languages of the conference will be English and
French.

Proposals and abstracts can be sent to:
Prof. Daniel Veronique
Centre des Lettres et Sciences Humaines
29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence CEDEX1
Fax: 42 59 42 80
Jean-Marc Dewaele
Sectie Romaanse Filologie
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussel
Belgie

CALL FOR PAPERS

WORKSHOP IN "PROSODIC MORPHOLOGY"
Organized by L.O.T. (Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde), the
Dutch national Ph.D. program in Linguistics
Dates: 22-24 June 1994
Place: Research Department for Language and Speech, Utrecht
University, Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Organizers:
Harry van der Hulst for the Holland Institute of Linguistics
Rene Kager and Wim Zonneveld for the Research Department for
language and Speech
hulstrulcri.leidenuniv.nl
kagerlet.ruu.nl
zonneveldlet.ruu.nl
Set-up:
7 invited speakers, 8 selected speakers (through this call),
15 additional participants
The invited speakers are: Larry Hyman (Berkeley), Sharon Inkelas
(Berkeley), Junko Ito (Santa Cruz), John McCarthy (Amherst),
Armin Mester (Santa Cruz), Alan Prince (Rutgers), Patricia Shaw
(Br. Columbia).

Aim of the Workshop:
The aim of the workshop is to contribute to the discussion of the
Phonology-Morphology Interface, within the framework of
*Prosodic Morphology*.
The central goal in this field is to gain insight into the nature of
the mutual dependence of morphological and prosodic categories. This
line of research was initiated in the seventies by McCarthy's work
in the morphology of the Semitic languages, was followed up by
Marantz' account of reduplication, and has recently been formulated
as the theoretical framework of Prosodic Morphology by McCarthy
and Prince. The key observation of this field is that in many
languages morphological categories are characterized by a fixed
phonological shape, or 'template'. Moreover, it is claimed that
templates are defined in terms of prosodic categories, such as
mora, syllable, foot, and prosodic word. Some typically 'templatic'
phenomena are reduplication, truncation, canonic stem specifications,
and minimal word statements.
The workshop will cover empirical, theoretical and methodological
aspects of this approach.

SEND A MAXIMALLY 2-page ABSTRACT *before 1 February 1994* to
Rene Kager/Wim Zonneveld
Workshop in Prosodic Morphology
OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, the Netherlands.
or through e-mail at the addresses mentioned.

The 47th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference will be held on
April 21-23, 1994, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington; as in
the past, the conference will include sessions devoted to linguistic
theory. If you wish to present a paper in one of these sessions, send
one copy of a one-page abstract to Greg Stump at either of the following
addresses:

 Department of English eng101ukcc.uky.edu
 University of Kentucky
 Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Please include the following information with your abstract:

 Name:
 Affiliation:
 Address:
 e-mail address:
 Daytime phone number:
 Length of paper (20 minutes or 45 minutes):

The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 3, 1993; authors
will be notified about the acceptance/rejection of their abstracts
in late December.

The conference program and information about registration
and hotel accommodations will be mailed to conference participants
in early 1994. If you are not submitting an abstract but wish to
receive this information, please contact Greg Stump at either of
the addresses given above.

For advance information about conference registration and hotel
accommodations, please contact Monica Stoch at either of the
following addresses:

 218C Service Building monica.stochukwang.uky.edu
 University of Kentucky
 Lexington, KY 40506

Because the conference date falls during the spring horse-racing
season, conference participants are encouraged to arrange hotel
reservations as early as possible.