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<DIV dir=ltr>Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics 2012<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Measured Language: Quantitative Approaches to Acquisition, Assessment, Processing and Variation<BR> <BR>March 8-11, 2012, Washington DC, USA<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>CALL FOR PAPERS<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 14, 2011<BR></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Website: <A href="http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/index.html">http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/index.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Plenary Speakers:<BR>Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University<BR>Penelope Eckert, Stanford University<BR>Nick Ellis, University of Michigan<BR>Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University<BR>Steven Ross, University of Maryland<BR> <BR>We invite proposals relevant to quantitative analyses of all aspects of language, but particularly:<BR>First and Second Language Acquisition </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Discourse Analysis <BR>Assessment of Language Learning </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Forensic Linguistics </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Natural Language Processing </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Identity and Indexicality<BR>Dialect and Register Variation </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Language and Gender<BR>Corpus Linguistics </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>Style<BR>Crosscultural Communication <BR> <BR>GURT 2012 will bring together researchers presenting replicable methodologies for quantitatively analyzing different facets of language, with an emphasis on sharing and incorporating perspectives and findings across a diverse range of linguistic inquiry. Proposals will be blind reviewed for their originality, quality, and breadth of relevance. In addition, colloquium proposals will be evaluated for the coherence and complementarity of their individual presentations. Presenters will be invited to submit written versions of their presentations for inclusion in a volume of selected proceedings.<BR> <BR><A href="mailto:GURT2012@gmail.com">GURT2012@gmail.com</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>