LINGUIST List 29.939
Tue Feb 27 2018
Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Writing Systems/USA
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-Feb-2018
From: Emiliana Cruz <emiliana.cr.cr
gmail.com>
Subject: 3rd Sound Systems of Latin America
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Date: 19-Oct-2018 - 21-Oct-2018
Location: University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA
Contact Person: Emiliana Cruz and John Kingston
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Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Phonetics; Phonology; Writing Systems
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018
Meeting Description:
The third conference on the Sound Systems of Latino
America (SSLA III) will be held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October
19-21, 2018. In addition to plenaries and contributed talks and posters, there will
be two roundtables, one devoted to fostering collaborations on language
documentation between indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and the other on
turning documentation into pedagogical materials.
The conference is
supported by the National Science Foundation
Call for Papers:
We
invite submissions addressing any aspects of the behavior of sounds in the
indigenous languages of Latin America (Mexico, Central America, and South America),
including submissions that address the topics of the roundtables. A one page
abstract in the form of a PDF file should be sent to both:
jkingston
linguist.umass.edu
and emiliana.cr.cr
gmail.com
no later than 11:59 PM, April 1, 2018. A second page may be added with data and
references. Both pages should have at least 2.5 cm margins on all sides, and all
text other than references should be in 11 point font or larger. The
author's/authors' name/names should not appear on the abstract. No format other than
PDF will be accepted. Abstracts may be in English or Spanish, the languages of the
conference. All abstracts will be reviewed by a scientific committee, and decisions
about acceptance will be sent to authors by June 1, 2018.
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