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Fri Jan 16 2004

Calls: General Ling/Nanterre, France; Typology

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Message 1: Young Researchers' Conference

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 17:17:47 -0500 (EST)
From: sylvain.loiseau <sylvain.loiseauu-paris10.fr>
Subject: Young Researchers' Conference

Young Researchers' Conference Short Title: COLDOC 2004

Date: 29-Apr-2004 - 30-Apr-2004 Location: Nanterre, France Contact: Sylvain Loiseau Contact Email: sylvain.loiseauu-paris10.fr Meeting URL: http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/textes/actualites/Page.html

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 26-Jan-2004

Meeting Description:

COLDOC' 2004 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics

Young researchers' conference - Nanterre, France - April 29 & 30, 2004

The young researchers of Mod�le, Dynamique, Corpus (UMR 7114 CNRS - Universit� Paris-X Nanterre) research team, are organizing a young researchers' conference, scheduled for April 29 and 30, 2004, at Paris X-Nanterre Universit� campus.

The setting up of observables in linguistics is the central topic of this conference, i.e. defining and making use of both attested and constructed data. Young researchers from all fields and domains of linguistics are, therefore, invited to submit a paper. Postgraduate, Ph. D. and postdoc students are invited to provide useful insights and experience on their respective research areas.

Communications addressing methodological and theoretical issues related to the process of setting up linguistic data, as well as data collection and utilization are expected. For example, communications addressing one of the following issues are expected: - Relevance and selection of linguistic data; - Corpora and emerging linguistic phenomena; - Oral, written or signed data collection methodology and practice; - Questions related to corpora related tools, transcription and encoding; - The use and place of quantitative methods, both generic and specific; - Qualitative methods; - Language, text genres or discourse comparison.

Each conference session will start by an invited speaker's talk. A roundtable will be held at the end of the conference. Communications should last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions.

The deadline for proposals is set on January 26, 2004. Communication proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the scientific committee. Authors are invited to send two separate files, in Word format: first a two pages long summary (3000 signs) of their communication, second a file stating the authors' names, e-mail address, affiliation, together with the title of their communication. Authors may also state their preference regarding the format of their communication: oral, or poster. Communications will be evaluated according to a range of selection criterions, favoring those papers which fully address the issue stated above, which show methodological relevance and scientific interest, and which state their point clearly.

Communication proposals, as well as other requests should be addressed to: <sylvain.loiseauu-paris10.fr>, or by postal mail, to the following address:

ColDoc' 2004 MoDyCo (UMR 7114) Secr�tariat sciences du langage Universit� Paris-X Nanterre, B�t. L 200, avenue de la R�publique 92001 Nanterre Cedex France

We look forward to welcoming you at Nanterre Universit� for the occasion of the conference. The Organizing Committee: Antonio Balvet, Sophie Hamon, Sylvain Loiseau, Ali Tifrit, C�cile Vigouroux.

Scientific Committee: - ------------------- Driss Ablali Karine Baschung Gabriel Bergounioux Simon Bouquet Nick Clements Marcel Cori Sophie David Annie Delaveau Bernard Fradin Fran�oise Gadet Nathalie Gasiglia Philippe Gr�a Fran�oise Kerleroux Mark Klein Anne Lacheret Bernard Laks Sarah Leroy Colette Noyau Thierry Poibeau Fran�ois Rastier Tobias Scheer Pascale S�billot Anna Sores Nathalie Vall�e Florence Villoing Geoffrey Williams.

Important dates: - ------------------- Submission deadline: January 26, 2004 Authors' notification of acceptance: March 22, 2004 Conference: April 29 & 30, 2004

The Setting up of Observables in Linguistics ColDoc'2004 - Modyco (UMR 7114) young researchers' conference Paris X Nanterre, Salle des colloques, B�timent B 200, avenue de la R�publique 92001 Nanterre Cedex France

Web site: http://infolang.u-paris10.fr/modyco/textes/actualites/Page.html

Message 2: Journal of Universal Language

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:54:51 -0500 (EST)
From: jytak <jytaksejong.ac.kr>
Subject: Journal of Universal Language

Journal of Universal Language

Call Deadline: 1-Feb-2004

The Third Call for the Journal of Universal Language(5:1)

Honorarium: As a token of our gratitude, the contributors will be awarded the $1,000 honorarium (which is subject to taxation).

Topic Areas:

The Journal of Universal Language is concerned with: -artificial language, communication & culture in language usage, typology, and universality in language -interdisciplinary contributions written with applied linguists in mind -brief notes, comments or observation concerning official language -reaction/replies to recent papers

The editors encourage the submission of papers on proposed themes as well as on other topics relevant to the interest of the Journal of Universal Language. Each volume contains two issues, published in March and September. The language of publication is English.

Format: 1. The length of a manuscript should not exceed 40 pages. 2. A 200-word abstract and keywords should be given at the beginning of each manuscript. 3. Manuscripts should be submitted on A4 paper, with the margins at least 4cm on all four sides of each sheet. They may be single-spaced and/or double-sided if desired.

Important Dates: Submission deadline: FEB 1, 2004. (However, we accept manuscripts throughout the year.) Notification of acceptance: FEB 15, 2004 Submission of camera-ready papers: MAR 15, 2004

Submissions: 1. Electronic submissions are acceptable. Acceptable file formats are Portable Document Format (.pdf) and MS Word (.doc). Please send your file in an attachment to jytaksejong.ac.kr. 2. For hard copy submissions, please send 3 copies, accompanied by a cover letter which includes the author's name, affiliation, address, and home or office phone numbers, to:

Jin-young Tak, Editor Department of English Language/Literature Sejong University Gunjs-kwan 401B, Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea e-mail:jytaksejong.ac.kr unishsejong.ac.kr

TOC (Journal of Universal Language 4:2)

Voice Recognition Systems toward a Universal Language Carmen D�ez-Carrera & Carlos Gonz�les-Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

A Survey of Relative Pronouns and their Uses in Natural and Artificial Languages Alan Libert & Christo Moskovsky (University of Newcastle, Austria)

When Old Paradigms Die, New Paradigms are Born: On the Eternal Cycle of Morphological Change and its Importance for Language Typology Gerd Jendraschek (Universite de Toulouse Le Mirail, France)

Universal Perceptual Attributes for Perception of American English Vowels by English and Japanese Speakers and Implications for Language Typology Chandrajith Marasinghe (University of Aizu, Japan), Stephen Lambacher (University of Aizu, Japan), William Martens (McGill University, Canada), Michael Cohen (University of Aizu, Japan), Charith Giragama (University of Aizu, Japan), Susantha Herath (St. Cloud State University, U.S.A.), & Garry Moholt (West Chester University, U.S.A.)

On the Universal Neuropsychological Basis of the Syntax of Numerals Pawel Rutkowski (Warsaw University, Poland)

For more information: http://www.unish.org/