LINGUIST List 5.1102

Sun 09 Oct 1994

Calls: Pragmatics, Spanish, Chinese, Creole lang workshop

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1. "Stanley G. Yunick, Jr.", Call for Papers-Pragmatics, UIUC
2. , Call for GURT Presession
3. Tao Hong Yin, Chinese conferences
4. VIRGINIA C GATHERCOLE, Creole Language Workshop

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 CALL FOR PAPERS

THE EVOLVING DESIGN OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

 Parasession of

 The 9th Annual International Conference on
 Pragmatics & Language Learning

 2 March 1995 Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Recently, growth in the use of multimedia materials, resurgent concern
with the lexicon, renewed interest in parsing and in corpus and text
analysis, as well as better techniques for on-line collection and analysis
of performance data, have begun to significantly alter the traditional
design of CALL materials. The aim of this conference is to get some
perspective on these new design directions.

We invite presentations exploring any aspects of instructional design in
CALL in relation to these emerging new directions. Of particular interest
are presentations which

**** Demonstrate new directions in CALL design.

**** Explore the way in which theoretical and applied linguistics,
 cognitive science, second language acquisition research, and
 similar areas are affecting the design of CALL materials.

**** Investigate the relationship between CALL and pragmatics.

To propose a 30 or 45 minute presentation, submit a 250-word abstract to

 Prof. Robert S. Hart,
 UI/UC Language Learning Laboratory,
 G70 Foreign Languages Building,
 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
 (internet: hartux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
 (fax: 217-244-0190)
 (voice: 217-333-9072).

Provide your address, telephone and FAX number, and email address. Include
equipment requests on a separate page. Proposers are encouraged to submit
abstracts by email. For additional information, contact the above address.

The 9th Annual Pragmatics Conference will take place on 2-4 March 1995;
the parasession registration fee will be reduced for those attending the
full conference.

Sponsored by the Division of English as an International Language
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Robert S. Hart/Douglas Mills, Coordinators

 DEADLINE: 15 December, 1994

 LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

 2nd PRESESSION ON SPANISH LINGUISTICS
 Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) 1995
 Georgetown University
 March 6-7, 1995

sponsored by the Georgetown University Spanish Department and the
Spanish Department Graduate Student Organization and organized by
Hector Campos, Norma Catalan, and Eric Holt.

Abstracts for 20 min talks (10 min for discussion) are invited in all
areas of Spanish Linguistics (historical/dialectology, applied,
phonology/morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.)

Invited speakers are:

 JORGE GUITART (SUNY, Buffalo)
 JOSE IGNACIO HUALDE (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
 PAUL LLOYD (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
 JAMES LEE (Univ. of illinois at Urabana-Champaign)
 JUAN URIAGEREKA (Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

Please send one camera-ready copy (with name and affiliation) and 6
anonymous copies of a one-page abstract by DECEMBER 1st, 1994. Include
a 3x5 index card with the following information:

 -Name of author(s)
 -Title of Paper
 -Affiliation
 -Address
 -e-mail
 -telephone and fax #

Address abstracts to the Presession Organizers: Hector Campos, Norma
Catalan and Eric Holt at

 Spanish Department
 ICC 403
 Georgetown University
 Washington, DC 20057

 (202) 687-6134
 Fax: (202) 687-5712

If you want to receive a printed copy of this announcement, please
write to the above address or e-mail the organizers at:

 hcamposguvax.georgetown.edu
 catalannguvax.georgetown.edu
 holtdguvax.georgetown.edu

 ICCL-4 / NACCL-7

The Joint Meeting of the Fourth International Conference on Chinese
Linguistics (ICCL-4) and Seventh North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics (NACCL-7)

 June 27-30, 1995

 The University of Wisconsin-Madison

 Conference Theme: Typology

 Second Announcement

Call for papers: The theme of the Joint Meeting this year is
Typology.

 Papers on all aspects of Chinese linguistics are
 welcome, however. Abstracts should be type-written,
 not more than one page, and use font sizes no smaller
 than 10 points. Five copies are required, two with
 the author's full name, institution, and address,
 and the others without. The deadline for abstracts
 is January 20, 1995.

Young Scholar Award (Funded by IACL)
(for faculty, students, and others)

Eligibility: Either age 35 or younger OR below the rank of
 Associate Professor (US/Chinese system) or Senior
 Lecturer (British system).
Recipients will be given subsidies to attend ICCL-4 where the
 award will be presented. Only single-author papers
 will be accepted. Each applicant may submit only
 one paper, in either English or Chinese (25 pages
 maximum) with a one page abstract. Three copies of
 the paper and abstract are required, one with the
 author's full name, institution, and address, and
 the other two without. Deadline for submission of
 both abstracts and papers is January 1, 1995. Proof
 of age or rank must be provided.

Address abstracts ICCL-4/NACCL-7 Organizing Committee
and inquiries to: Department of East Asian Languages and Literature

 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 Van Hise Hall
 1220 Linden Drive
 Madison, WI 53706
 USA

 Tel: (608) 262-0689
 Fax: (608) 265-5731
 E-mail: ICCLmacc.wisc.edu

Florida International University, in Miami, FL, is hosting a workshop on
"Creole Languages and Urban Education: Meeting the Challenge of the 21st
Century". The opening address will be given on the evening of Wednesday,
Nov. 16, by Derek Bickerton: "Light on Haiti from Hawaii: Why the
relexification theory of Haitian creole origins cannot be correct".
Sessions wil also be held all day on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 17 and 18.
Participants will include Dr. Velma Pollrd, University of te West Indies at
Mona; Dr. Jean-Robert Joseph Cadely, Universite a Montreal; Dr. Michel
DeGraff, University of Michigan; Dr. Yves DeJean, Teacher's College of
Haiti State University; Dr. Ian Hancock, University of Texas; Dr. Geneva
Smitherman, Michigan State; Dr. Flore Zephir, University of Missouri; and
Dr. Ramon Todd Dandare, Kruba.
For further information, please contact Dr. Tometro Hopkins, Linguistics
Program, FIU, Miami, FL 33199 (hopkinstservax.fiu.edu).
Sponsored by the Linguistics Program, the African New-World Studies
Program, the Latin American and Caribbean Center, and the Barbara Gordon
Memorial Lecture Series in Linguistics, FIU.