LINGUIST List 7.1740

Mon Dec 9 1996

Calls: Fleat 3, CLS, Chinese Dialectology

Editor for this issue: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar <aristarlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Mary Sanseverino, Fleat 3 Conference Information
2. randall henry eggert, CLS-33
3. David Prager Branner, Correction! and Call: Chinese Dialectology conference

Dear Netters:

A conference on foreign language education and technology is to be held
at the University of Victoria, Canada, next summer. Please refer to the
following announcement for detailed information. Thank you.

Yang Wei
University of Victoria
- --------------------------Original message----------------------------

 FLEAT III - Languages, Resources, Cultures
 August 12 - 16, 1997
 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

In 1997 the third conference on Foreign Language Education and Technology
(FLEAT) will be held in North America for the first time. Based on the
success of the first two events - both of which were held in Japan in 1981
and 1993 - the Learning Laboratories Association (LLA) of Japan and the
International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL) decided to
jointly sponsor FLEAT III in Victoria, B.C. Canada.

The conference theme of Languages, Resources and Cultures echoes the role
of the Language Resource Centre as provider of language learning resources,
technology for language learning, and, increasingly, as centres for
cultural studies. The LRC theme also revolves around people - those members
of our community who teach, create and provide resources, work with
technology, and keep our Centres going throughout the year. The goal of
FLEAT III is to provide an international forum where we can all meet, share
our professional experiences, learn from one another and extend our
knowledge of technology as it relates to language learning.


Topics for papers at FLEAT III may be on any aspect of Technology and
Second Language Learning, such as:

* management issues;
* facility design;
* selection of hardware and software;
* distance education;
* integrating software into courses;
* software assessment;
* authoring software;
* staff training and professional development;
* relations within the institution;
* technology and the theory of Second
 Language Acquisition;
* international legal issues (copyright for example);
* professional development;
* courseware development


The FLEAT III Program Committee are looking for proposals to present
workshops, roundtable discussions, demonstration/poster sessions, lectures,
and panel discussions.

All proposals must be postmarked no later than January 31, 1997.


For more information or to request a full email version of the Call for
Participation, please email fleat3uvic.ca or point your favourite browser
at
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3

 See you in Victoria in '97

 CHICAGO LINGUISTICS SOCIETY PRESENTS:

 ******************** CLS - 33 **************************

 APRIL 17-19, 1997

 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO



*** MAIN SESSION ***

Invited Speakers:

LAURENCE HORN, Yale University
BRIAN JOSEPH, Ohio State University
_____________________________________________________________________

Panels:

*** UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR, PARAMETERS, AND TYPOLOGY ***

If valid concrete universals exist how are they formulated and what is
their role in linguistic theory?
What are the relevant parameters along which languages are typologized?

EDITH MORAVCSIK, U Wisconsin, Milwakee
MATHEW S. DRYER, SUNY, Buffalo
SUSAN M. STEELE, U of Arizona
__________________________________________________________________

*** THE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH AND OTHER ACOUSTIC SIGNALS ***

Is the perception of speech special, taking place within a module that is
specifically dedicated to the perception of phonetic as opposed to general
acoustic signals?

PETER MACNEILAGE, U of Texas, Austin
ROBERT A. FOX, Ohio State University
___________________________________________________________________

*** LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGIES IN CONTACT ***

In language contact situations, what role does the interaction of ideas
and perceptions held by linguists and non-linguists about the languages in
contact have in shaping the languages?
What are the implications for historical linguistics?

VICTOR FRIEDMAN, U of Chicago


*********************************************************************

Please submit ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a
twenty minute paper (optionally, one additional page for data and/or
references may be appended), along with a 3" by 5" card with:

 (1) your name
 (2) affiliation
 (3) address, phone number, and e-mail address
 (4) title of the paper
 (5) an indication for which panel or which particular
 subdivision of the main session (e.g. Phonetics, Phonology,
 Syntax, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, etc.) the paper
 is intended.

The abstract should be as specific as possible, and it should clearly
indicate the data covered, outline the arguments presented, and include
any broader implications of the work. An individual may present at most
one single and one co-authored paper. Authors must submit a camera-ready
copy of the paper at the time of the conference in order to be considered
for publication. Only a selection of papers presented at CLS 33 will be
published.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 31, 1997. Send abstracts
to:

 Chicago Linguistic Society
 1050 E. 59th Street
 Chicago, IL 60637
 (773) 702-8529

Abstracts sent by e-mail will not be considered. Information may be
obtained from clstuna.uchicago.edu.

The next annual meeting of the The Yuen Ren Society is being moved from
Miami to Seattle, Washington. It will be held on March 24-25, 1997, at the
University of Washington.

	Papers are still being accepted. The loose theme this year is
Chinese dialect comparison - although we will consider papers on any Chinese
dialectological topic as long as it is fully supported by data. 

	The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork
is dedicated to the study of diverse varieties of spoken Hann Chinese, with
strong emphasis on descriptive fieldwork. It is the only academic
organization of its kind in the world. The Society was founded in 1990 at
the University of Washington and is named after Yuen Ren Chao, a pioneer in
descriptive Chinese linguistics. The Society's meetings are an occasional
forum for distributing and discussing fresh dialect data. YRS meetings are
typically small and rather cozy, and speakers are allowed at least 30
minutes per presentation. Our format is more flexible than most of other
regular Chinese linguistics conferences, and we have a much narrower focus -
we insist that all presentations be supported by abundant data. Each year a
number of our presentations are usually devoted to reports on dialects that
are poorly known.

	The deadline for submitting either finished papers or readable
drafts, including (most important) a representative sample of data, is 31
January, 1997. 

	This year, submissions to the Society's journal, the Treasury,
will be handled separately from the regular meeting - watch for
announcements. The deadline is 31 December, 1996. 

	As always, all submissions, to both the Treasury and the YRS
meetings are reviewed anonymously. We will be happy to send you a list of
suggestions and our style sheet. The Society's Web page is at

		http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren

Please use the following addresses to send submissions or requests for
information:

by email, to <yuenrenu.washington.edu>;

by regular mail, to
	The Yuen Ren Society
	David Prager Branner, Director
	Department of Asian Languages and Literature
	Box 353521
	University of Washington
	Seattle, WA 98195-3521

or by fax, to
	[USA]-(206)-685-4268. Please write The Yuen Ren Society, c/o
BRANNER at the top.

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