LINGUIST List 9.446

Tue Mar 24 1998

Calls: Pidgin & Creole, Sound Patterns

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Armin Schwegler, Pidgin & Creole
2. Marie Helene Casanova, Sound Patterns of Spontaneous Speech

CALL for PAPERS **** Deadline: July 31, 1998 ****

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 Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages
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Place/Venue: Los Angeles (in conjunction with LSA)

Date: January 8-9 (Friday-Saturday), 1999

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: July 31, 1998


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The Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages will meet in Los
Angeles, January 8-9, 1998, in conjunction with the annual meeting
of the Linguistic Society of America at

Bonaventure
404 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Single/Double occupancy $80.00
Reservations: (800) 228-3000


Abstracts for a 20-minute paper on phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, lexicon, social aspects of language, history of the discipline
or any pertinent issue involving pidgin and creole languages are invited
for anonymous review by a five member panel.

ABSTRACT:

Two abstracts of different length should be submitted:

(1) A short, publishable abstract for the 1999 LSA Meeting Handbook (for
format specifications, see attached form, or the December 1997 LSA
Bulletin, or http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/calendar/

(2) a longer, single spaced one-page version of the abstract (the panel of
reviewers will use this abstract for evaluating your submission).

FORMAT:

Your name, address, affiliation, status (student, faculty) E-mail address,
FAX,
and phone number should appear on a separate page. Please also indicate
whether you need audio-visual equipment (overhead projector, tape recorder,
etc.).


Membership

Membership in SPCL includes a subscription to the Journal of Pidgin & Creole
Languages (only one member within the same household need subscribe to
the journal). The cost for both membership and the journal is US $58.00 or
Dutch guilder (Hfl.) 116.00 per year. Students may participate in the
conference without subscribing to the journal, but they must be a member of
the
SPCL. Regular membership dues and subscriptions should be sent to
John Benjamins Publishing Company (address below). Students opting not to
subscribe to the journal should send the $8.00 membership fee directly to
Prof.
Armin Schwegler at UC Irvine (address below).

John Benjamins B.V.
Amsteldijk 44 - P.O. Box 75577
1070 AN AMSTERDAM / HOLLAND
e-mail: customer.servicesbenjamins.nl

OR:

John Benjamins NA Inc.
P O Box 27519
Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 (USA)

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MAIL ABSTRACTS TO:

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(Note: e-mail submissions cannot be accepted)

Prof. Armin Schwegler
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5275 (USA)

e-mail: aschwegleruci.edu

FAX: 714/824-2803 (BEFORE April 15,1998)
FAX: 949/824-2803 (AFTER April 15, 1998)

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 aschwegluci.edu

Prof. of Spanish Linguistics
Assoc. Editor, Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Univ. of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5275 (U.S.A.)

714/854-4791 (home office; preferred number)
714/824-6901 (office) **714 area code: see note below**
714/824-2803 (fax) **714 area code: see note below**

OFFICE: 369 Humanities Hall, UCI.
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E-mail: aschwegluci.edu
WWW Home page: http://www.hnet.uci.edu/aschwegler/index
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****Please note new AREA code for the phone numbers above:

Old area code: (714) // New area code: (949) as of April 18, 1998
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The ESCA workshop on Sound Patterns of Spontaneous Speech : Production
and Perception

Conference Center : La Baume les Aix

September 24-26, 1998

For complete information, visit the Sposs Web Site at
www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/sposs

General Chair :

Danielle DUEZ, Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Universite de Provence
13621 Aix en Provence

Organisation Committee :

Danielle DUEZ, LPL
Marie-Helene CASANOVA, LPL
Bernard TESTON, LPL
Martin BROUSSEAU, LPL
Annie RIVAL, LPL

Invited speakers :

Anne CUTLER, Max Planck Institute, (Netherlands)
Klaus KOHLER, University of Kiel, (Germany)
Bjorn LINDBLOM, University of Stockholm, (Sweden)
Jacqueline VAISSIERE, Universite de Paris III (France)

Papers are welcome on the sound patterns of spontaneous speech in
various languages.

Potential topics include :

- Articulatory and acoustic analysis of spontaneous speech processes.
- Comparison of sound patterns in spontaneous speech and read speech.
- Spontaneous-speech processes in relation to prosodic information.
- Perception of reduction and assimilatory processes and context
effects.
 - Modelling of spontaneous-speech processes.

Authors should submit a one-page abstract with name(s), affiliation and
full contact information of the author on the title page. 

The submission should be adressed before March 31, 1998 it can be
extended to April 15.

Danielle DUEZ
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Universite de Provence
29, Avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix en provence

e-mail duezlpl.univ-aix.fr or sposslpl.univ-aix.fr
fax : 04 42 59 50 96
tel : 04 42 95 36 23