LINGUIST List 17.1120

Thu Apr 13 2006

Confs: General Ling/Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Message 1: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
Date: 12-Apr-2006
From: Karlos Arregi <karlosuiuc.edu>
Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society



37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society Short Title: NELS 37


Date: 13-Oct-2006 - 15-Oct-2006 Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Contact: Karlos Arregi Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.nels.uiuc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The 37th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, NELS 37 (N37S)

Including a General Session, a Poster Session, and Special Sessions on Syntactic Theory and Psycholinguistics, and the Phonology and Morphology of Pidgins and Creoles

October 13-15, 2006University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

INVITED SPEAKERS

J. Kathryn Bock (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz) Peter Lasersohn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Lisa Selkirk (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam)

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion), and a poster session, on any aspect of theoretical linguistics. Please specify the sessions you would like to be considered for. Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author. Abstract submission will be done online. This feature will be available soon on the NELS 37 website: http://www.nels.uiuc.edu.

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006

Special sessions:

SYNTACTIC THEORY AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS Invited speaker: J. Kathryn Bock (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) This session will include regular-length talks that address issues in syntactic theory and psycholinguistics, including:

Language processing Language comprehension Grammar and parsing Experimental studies and syntactic theory

PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF PIDGINS AND CREOLES Invited speaker: Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) This session will include regular-length talks that address issues in the phonology and morphology of Pidgins and Creoles, including:

Parallels between creoles and the learner-grammars of both adult (L2) and children (L1) learners Perception/production and Creole/Pidgin formation Patterns of epenthesis and other processes of adaptation/adjustment in Creoles and Pidgins Prosodic structures Universals in the formation of Pidgins and Creoles Cross language comparisons Inflection and derivation in Pidgins and Creoles

NELS 37 sponsors:

Department of Linguistics, UIUC School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguisitcs, UIUC Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, UIUC

For more information, please visit http://www.nels.uiuc.edu or contact the organizers at nels-37uiuc.edu.