From jdantonio at uem.br Fri Mar 1 16:53:22 2013 From: jdantonio at uem.br (Juliano Desiderato Antonio) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:53:22 -0300 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - WORKSHOP "RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES" Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please, announce this CFP in your communities. Apologies for eventual multiple posts. Thank you! Juliano D. Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS* 4th MEETING “RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES” http://encontrorst2013.wix.com/encontro-rst-2013 Fortaleza/Ceará (Brazil), October 23, 2013 “RST and discourse studies” workshop gathers researchers, professors and students of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or Information Science who work with Rhetorical Structure Theory (MANN and THOMPSON, 1988) or similar theories and models. The goal is to enable the showing of researches carried out in different institutions and research groups in different countries. The 4th edition of the workshop will be held on the October 23rd, 2013, as a satellite meeting of the 9th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL – http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil), in Fortaleza, Brazil. The 1st edition of the workshop was held at 16thIntercâmbio de Pesquisas em Linguística Aplicada (InPLA), in 2007, at PUC-SP. The second edition, in 2009, was named “Brazilian RST Meeting” within STIL in São Carlos (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/). The 3rd workshop “RST and Discourse Studies” was also held within STIL (2011) in Cuiabá (http://corpus.iingen.unam.mx/RST_2011/). SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of the Basque Country) Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Iria da Cunha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Juan-Manuel Torres (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon) Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá) Lucia Rino (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Maria Eduarda Giering (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country) Thiago Pardo (Universidade de São Paulo) ORGANIZATION Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country) Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maringá) PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION Participants may submit full papers or extended abstracts to encontro.rst.2013 at gmail.com until May 3rd, 2013. The full paper should be no more than eight pages (including tables and figures) length, with two additional pages for references. The extended abstract should be no more than four pages length and one additional page for references. Each paper [without the name(s) of the author(s)] will be sent to two members of the scientific committee, who will point out if the paper should be accepted or not. In case the paper is accepted, members of the committee will suggest whether the paper should be presented as a talk or as a poster. In case the paper is granted a positive and a negative evaluation, a third evaluation will be necessary. Acceptance notifications will be published by May 31th, 2013. Final camera-ready papers or extended abstracts must be sent by June 23rd, 2013 to be published in the online conference proceedings (under ISBN). The model for the full paper or for the extended abstract is available at http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38. Papers and extended abstracts which are not according to the model will not be published. Authors of the accepted papers must register for STIL until the deadline for extended abstract or full paper submission. Otherwise their papers will not be published in the proceedings. REGISTRATION Participants must register for STIL at http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil. -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivirus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Mon Mar 11 22:23:33 2013 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:23:33 +0100 Subject: CONF: AFLiCo 5 : early registration ends March 15 Message-ID: Dear colleague, We would like to remind you of the deadline for early registration (ends March 15) for the AFLiCo conference "Empirical Approaches to Multi-modality and to Language Variation (AFLiCo 5)", which will take place from 15 to 17 May 2013 at the University of Lille 3 in Villeneuve d'Ascq (France). Early registration closes March 15; late registration closes April 8, 2013. A Spring School on "Empirical methods in usage-based linguistics" will take place on the two days preceding the conference, i.e. 13-14 May, 2013. There will be five workshops in parallel: corpus-linguistics, categorical statistics in corpus linguistics using R, using ELAN, using CLAN, psycholinguistic experiments; see the AFLiCo 5 website for details). The school is open to anyone wishing to learn about one of these methods. Those interested in taking one of these workshops are invited to contact Maarten Lemmens a.s.a.p. (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr). Fees for the school are expected to be around 30 to 40 euros per day (including lunch and coffee). *Registration AFLiCo 5: information and procedure* To register, you need to create an account on this platform: http://aflico5.sciencesconf.org/ If you already have an account (e.g., if you have submitted an abstract to this conference or to another one on SciencesConf.org) you can use that one. Early registration fees for non-members is 130€ (regular) or 60€ (student). There are reduced fees for AFLiCo members: 90€ (regular) or 40€ (student). AFLiCo membership is 20€ per year; to become member click on the link “http://www.aflico.fr/membership.html” and follow the instructions given there. Early registration opens on January 22, 2013 and closes on March 15, 2013. After March 15, there is a 40€ increase of fees: late registration fee for non-members will then be 170€ (regular) or 100€ (student) and for AFLiCo members 130€ (regular) or 80€ (student). Late registration closes on April 8, 2013. Basic conference fee covers plenary lectures, use of conference rooms, conference bag, name tag, book of abstracts and coffee breaks. *Lunches* The registration module allows you to pre-order lunches for any or all three conference dates (Wednesday, May 15, Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17). A lunch costs 8 euro and includes a deli sandwich, a drink and a healthy dessert. *Conference dinner* The conference dinner will take place on Thursday evening in an exquisite restaurant located in a historic site in "Old Lille" (http://www.lilleremparts.fr/en/index.php). The price of 48€ includes an aperitif and amuse-bouche, a starter, a main course, a dessert and coffee or tea, as well as wine and water. There is a vegetarian option. *Excursion to LaM* On Thursday afternoon at around 4 p.m., before the conference dinner, there will be a guided visit to the LaM, the newly refurbished and extended Lille Metropolitan Museum of modern art, contemporary art and art brut in Villeneuve d’Ascq (http://www.musee-lam.fr/gb/). The price is 10€ (not including transport to the museum from the conference site: from the Pont de Bois metro station, take bus 41 to L.A.M.). *T-shirt* For only 12 euro, you can buy a conference souvenir T-shirt (S/M/L/XL), containing the logo, the title and the date of the conference. *Transport* We advise you to buy a booklet of 10 metro tickets upon arrival, which would cover the trips to and from the city centre to the university for the whole conference, including the bus ticket for the excursion to museum. We are looking forward to seeing you in May in Lille! Maarten Lemmens, Annie Risler, Dany Amiot, and Bert Cappelle ** Cher(e) collègue Nous souhaitons vous rappeler de la date limite pour l'inscription à frais réduit pour le le colloque ‘Approches Empiriques de la multi-modalité et de la variation linguistique (AFLiCo 5), qui aura lieu du 15 au 17 mai 2013 à l’Université Lille3 (France). Merci de noter que l’inscription tardive commence le 15 mars ; les inscriptions seront closes le 8 avril. Les deux jours avant le colloque (13 & 14 mai), nous organisons également une école thématique "Méthodes empiriques en linguistique de l'usage". Il y aura 5 ateliers parallèles: linguistique de corpus, statistique catégorique en linguistique de corpus avec R, utiliser ELAN, utiliser CLAN, méthodes expérimentales psycholinguistiques. Cette école est ouverte à toute personne souhaitant apprendre une des ces méthodes. Si vous êtes intéressé à suivre un de ces ateliers, merci de le signaler au plus vite à Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr). Les frais d'inscription pour l'école sera aux alentours de 30 à 40 euro par jour (déjeuner et café inclus). *Inscriptions AFLiCo 5: information et procédures* Les inscriptions sont ouvertes à compter du 22 janvier. Elles se font à partir de la plate-forme http://aflico5.sciencesconf.org/ Si vous avez déjà un compte sur scienceconf.org (créé pour le dépôt d’une soumission à ce colloque ou un autre), vous pourrez le réutiliser. Nous vous invitons à vous inscrire avant le 15 mars pour bénéficier des meilleurs tarifs : Les droits d’inscriptions pour les non-membres de l’AFLiCo sont de 130 euro (tarif normal) ou 60 euros (tarif étudiants). Les membres de l’AFLiCo bénéficient d’un tarif réduit : 90 euros (tarif normal) et 40 euros (étudiant). Pour être membres de l’AFLiCo, vous pouvez vous inscrire en ligne, sur le site “http://www.aflico.fr/membership.html”. La cotisation annuelle s’élève à 20€. Après le 15 mars, ces tarifs augmenteront de 40 € : 170 € (tarif normal) ou 100 € (étudiant) pour les non-membres, et 130 € (tarif normal) ou 80 € (étudiant) pour les membres de l’AFLiCo. Les inscriptions seront closes à compter du 8 avril 2013. Les droits d’inscriptions comprennent l’accès aux conférences plénières, aux sessions parallèles, une pochette du colloque, un badge nominatif, livret des résumés et pauses café. *Repas* Le formulaire d’inscription vous permet de commander un repas de midi pour chaque journée de colloque : mercredi 15, jeudi 16 et vendredi 17 mai. Le repas coute 8 euro et comprend sandwich, boisson et dessert. *Dîner de gala* Un dîner de gala est organisé le jeudi 16 mai au soir, dans un charmant restaurant situé dans le centre historique du ‘Vieux Lille’ (http://www.lilleremparts.fr/en/index.php). Le Restaurant La Terrasse des Remparts vous propose un menu à 48€ comprenant apéritif, entrée, plat, dessert (boissons incluses). Vous pouvez choisir un menu végétarien. *Excursion au LaM* Le jeudi après-midi après 16h, nous vous proposons de participer à une visite du LaM, Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut de Lille Métropole. Ce musée, situé à Villeneuve d’Ascq tout près de l’Université Lille3, vient de rouvrir après rénovation, et propose une remarquable collection d’art brut qui vaut le détour (http://www.musee-lam.fr/). Vous pourrez visiter librement ou suivre une visite guidée en anglais ou en français. Le tarif proposé (10 euros) ne comprend pas le déplacement jusqu’au musée (en transport en commun : de la station du Pont de Bois, prenez bus 41 arrêt L.A.M.). *T-Shirt* Pour seulement 12 euro, nous vous proposons d’acquérir un T-shirt souvenir du colloque, avec logo, titre et dates. Tailles : S/M/L/ ou XL *Déplacements dans la ville* Nous vous conseillons d’acheter à votre arrivée à Lille un carnet de 10 tickets de métro, qui vous permettront d’assurer tous vos déplacements sur la durée du colloque. Nous espérons vous voir à Lille au mois de mai ! Maarten Lemmens, Annie Risler, Dany Amiot, Bert Cappelle From reng at rice.edu Tue Mar 19 23:57:59 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:57:59 -0500 Subject: One-year lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology at Rice Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University is now accepting applications for a lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology. The successful applicant will be asked to teach courses in both of these areas, an introductory linguistics course, and may teach additional courses in his or her subject area. This is a one-year appointment, and the course load is four courses for that year. Deadline for receipt of applications is April 5, 2013. Ph.D. is required by time of appointment; position start date is July 1, 2013. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department's interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. See also our departmental web site at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and names and contact information for three references. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please send a pdf of all of your application materials to: rriley at rice.edu, with “Laboratory Phonology Lecturer” in the subject line. From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Wed Mar 20 22:54:55 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:54:55 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Acquisition of referring expressions Paris In-Reply-To: <20130221183140.75925mm20g66hvy4@webmail.univ-paris3.fr> Message-ID: ACQUISITION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS: CROSSED PERSPECTIVES Date of conference: October 25-26, 2013 Location: Paris DEADLINE for submissions: April 1st 2013. Submissions will be registered on-line, via the Easychair platform (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeref2013) Sibmissions concern oral presentations, panel propositions and poster presentations We are happy to announce the participation of the following guest speakers Keynote Lectures: Shanley Allen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Eve Clark, Stanford University, Ca. USA Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Maya Hickmann, CNRS, Université Paris 8, SFL, France Elena Lieven, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Edy Veneziano, Université Paris Descartes, Modyco) And the DIAREF project team Oral presentations: Dominique Bassano (CNRS, Université Paris 8, SFL, France), Dagmar Bittner (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany), Cécile de Cat (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Jeannette Gundel (University of Minnesota, USA), Susana Lopez Ornat Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Yuriko Oshima-Takane ( McGill University, Montréal, Canada), Ludovica Serratrice (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Barbora Skarabela (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Rushen Shi (Quebec University , Montréal, Canada), Sophie Wauquier (Université Paris 8, SFL, France) For further information please visit our website : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013 Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Université Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le français contemporain CLESTHIA From srice at ualberta.ca Wed Mar 27 21:24:12 2013 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:24:12 -0600 Subject: ICLC-12 update (and looming Early Bird Registration deadline--31 March 2013) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings** We have a number of announcements to make concerning the upcoming *12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference* being held at the University of Alberta, 23-28 June 2013. The conference is now less than three months away. (1) We have added a graduate student event (also open to post-docs and undergraduate students) on Tuesday evening, 25 June. The featured speaker will be Daniel Casasanto speaking on* *"The Hands of Time: What gestures reveal about space-time mappings". This presentation and mixer will feature food and a no-host bar. (2) We can confirm panelists for the two "Open Forums" which address, roughly, the past 25 years in the Cognitive Linguistics movement and the next 25 years. The "Looking Back" forum takes place late Monday afternoon, 24 June. The 12 panelists are: George Lakoff, Len Talmy, Ron Langacker, Dirk Geeraerts, Guenter Radden, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Claudia Brugman, Maggie Winters, Suzanne Kemmer, Sherman Wilcox, Eve Sweetser, and Arie Verhagen. The "Looking Forward" forum takes place late Tuesday afternoon, 25 June. The 12 panelists are: Chris Sinha, Jordan Zlatev, Laura Janda, Ron Chen, Maarten Lemmens, Nick Evans, Ewa Dabrowska, Seana Coulson, Alan Cienki, Steffi Wulff, Vera Tobin, and Daniel Casasanto. We're hoping for ample audience participation at these two events, both of which will be video-taped and made available as permanent podcasts. (3) A revised program will be posted by the end of this week on the conference website. (4) Early Bird registration ends this coming Sunday, 31 March. Regular pre-registration rates rise substantially as of 1 April. Regular registration rates go up again as of 1 June. If you are planning to attend the conference, please consider registering early--it will be cheaper for you! (5) Our colleagues in East Asian Studies would like to announce two pre-conference workshops of general interest to participants of ICLC-12. A day-long workshop on "Cognitive and Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language" will take place on Friday, 21 June, in Banff, Alberta. For more details, please go to < http://www.ptjc.ualberta.ca/Conferences/Cognitive%20Japan.aspx>. A two-day workshop on "Linguistic and Interactional Units in Everyday Speech: Cross-linguistic Perspectives" will take place on Friday and Saturday, 21-22 June, at the University of Alberta. For more details, please go to . (6) We invite those interested in live updates about the conference as well as view our photo gallery of past conferences to follow us on Facebook < https://www.facebook.com/pages/12th-International-Cognitive-Linguistics-Conference-ICLC-12/364659916945426?fref=ts> or Twitter . Dr. Sally Rice and Dr. John Newman Co-organizers of ICLC-12 (2013) Department of Linguistics University of Alberta iclc2013 at ualberta.ca www.foa.ualberta.ca/iclc2013 mirror site for China: https://iclc.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/12th-International-Cognitive-Linguistics-Conference-ICLC-12/364659916945426?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/iclc12 From jdantonio at uem.br Fri Mar 1 16:53:22 2013 From: jdantonio at uem.br (Juliano Desiderato Antonio) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:53:22 -0300 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - WORKSHOP "RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES" Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please, announce this CFP in your communities. Apologies for eventual multiple posts. Thank you! Juliano D. Antonio and Mikel Iruskieta *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS* 4th MEETING ?RST AND DISCOURSE STUDIES? http://encontrorst2013.wix.com/encontro-rst-2013 Fortaleza/Cear? (Brazil), October 23, 2013 ?RST and discourse studies? workshop gathers researchers, professors and students of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics or Information Science who work with Rhetorical Structure Theory (MANN and THOMPSON, 1988) or similar theories and models. The goal is to enable the showing of researches carried out in different institutions and research groups in different countries. The 4th edition of the workshop will be held on the October 23rd, 2013, as a satellite meeting of the 9th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (STIL ? http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil), in Fortaleza, Brazil. The 1st edition of the workshop was held at 16thInterc?mbio de Pesquisas em Lingu?stica Aplicada (InPLA), in 2007, at PUC-SP. The second edition, in 2009, was named ?Brazilian RST Meeting? within STIL in S?o Carlos (http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/). The 3rd workshop ?RST and Discourse Studies? was also held within STIL (2011) in Cuiab? (http://corpus.iingen.unam.mx/RST_2011/). SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of the Basque Country) Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Iria da Cunha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Juan-Manuel Torres (Laboratoire Informatique d'Avignon) Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maring?) Lucia Rino (Universidade Federal de S?o Carlos) Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University) Maria Beatriz Nascimento Decat (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Maria Eduarda Giering (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos) Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country) Thiago Pardo (Universidade de S?o Paulo) ORGANIZATION Mikel Iruskieta (University of the Basque Country) Juliano Desiderato Antonio (Universidade Estadual de Maring?) PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION Participants may submit full papers or extended abstracts to encontro.rst.2013 at gmail.com until May 3rd, 2013. The full paper should be no more than eight pages (including tables and figures) length, with two additional pages for references. The extended abstract should be no more than four pages length and one additional page for references. Each paper [without the name(s) of the author(s)] will be sent to two members of the scientific committee, who will point out if the paper should be accepted or not. In case the paper is accepted, members of the committee will suggest whether the paper should be presented as a talk or as a poster. In case the paper is granted a positive and a negative evaluation, a third evaluation will be necessary. Acceptance notifications will be published by May 31th, 2013. Final camera-ready papers or extended abstracts must be sent by June 23rd, 2013 to be published in the online conference proceedings (under ISBN). The model for the full paper or for the extended abstract is available at http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=view.download&catid=32&cid=38. Papers and extended abstracts which are not according to the model will not be published. Authors of the accepted papers must register for STIL until the deadline for extended abstract or full paper submission. Otherwise their papers will not be published in the proceedings. REGISTRATION Participants must register for STIL at http://www2.unifor.br/bracis2013/call-for-papers-stil. -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivirus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Mon Mar 11 22:23:33 2013 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:23:33 +0100 Subject: CONF: AFLiCo 5 : early registration ends March 15 Message-ID: Dear colleague, We would like to remind you of the deadline for early registration (ends March 15) for the AFLiCo conference "Empirical Approaches to Multi-modality and to Language Variation (AFLiCo 5)", which will take place from 15 to 17 May 2013 at the University of Lille 3 in Villeneuve d'Ascq (France). Early registration closes March 15; late registration closes April 8, 2013. A Spring School on "Empirical methods in usage-based linguistics" will take place on the two days preceding the conference, i.e. 13-14 May, 2013. There will be five workshops in parallel: corpus-linguistics, categorical statistics in corpus linguistics using R, using ELAN, using CLAN, psycholinguistic experiments; see the AFLiCo 5 website for details). The school is open to anyone wishing to learn about one of these methods. Those interested in taking one of these workshops are invited to contact Maarten Lemmens a.s.a.p. (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr). Fees for the school are expected to be around 30 to 40 euros per day (including lunch and coffee). *Registration AFLiCo 5: information and procedure* To register, you need to create an account on this platform: http://aflico5.sciencesconf.org/ If you already have an account (e.g., if you have submitted an abstract to this conference or to another one on SciencesConf.org) you can use that one. Early registration fees for non-members is 130? (regular) or 60? (student). There are reduced fees for AFLiCo members: 90? (regular) or 40? (student). AFLiCo membership is 20? per year; to become member click on the link ?http://www.aflico.fr/membership.html? and follow the instructions given there. Early registration opens on January 22, 2013 and closes on March 15, 2013. After March 15, there is a 40? increase of fees: late registration fee for non-members will then be 170? (regular) or 100? (student) and for AFLiCo members 130? (regular) or 80? (student). Late registration closes on April 8, 2013. Basic conference fee covers plenary lectures, use of conference rooms, conference bag, name tag, book of abstracts and coffee breaks. *Lunches* The registration module allows you to pre-order lunches for any or all three conference dates (Wednesday, May 15, Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17). A lunch costs 8 euro and includes a deli sandwich, a drink and a healthy dessert. *Conference dinner* The conference dinner will take place on Thursday evening in an exquisite restaurant located in a historic site in "Old Lille" (http://www.lilleremparts.fr/en/index.php). The price of 48? includes an aperitif and amuse-bouche, a starter, a main course, a dessert and coffee or tea, as well as wine and water. There is a vegetarian option. *Excursion to LaM* On Thursday afternoon at around 4 p.m., before the conference dinner, there will be a guided visit to the LaM, the newly refurbished and extended Lille Metropolitan Museum of modern art, contemporary art and art brut in Villeneuve d?Ascq (http://www.musee-lam.fr/gb/). The price is 10? (not including transport to the museum from the conference site: from the Pont de Bois metro station, take bus 41 to L.A.M.). *T-shirt* For only 12 euro, you can buy a conference souvenir T-shirt (S/M/L/XL), containing the logo, the title and the date of the conference. *Transport* We advise you to buy a booklet of 10 metro tickets upon arrival, which would cover the trips to and from the city centre to the university for the whole conference, including the bus ticket for the excursion to museum. We are looking forward to seeing you in May in Lille! Maarten Lemmens, Annie Risler, Dany Amiot, and Bert Cappelle ** Cher(e) coll?gue Nous souhaitons vous rappeler de la date limite pour l'inscription ? frais r?duit pour le le colloque ?Approches Empiriques de la multi-modalit? et de la variation linguistique (AFLiCo 5), qui aura lieu du 15 au 17 mai 2013 ? l?Universit? Lille3 (France). Merci de noter que l?inscription tardive commence le 15 mars ; les inscriptions seront closes le 8 avril. Les deux jours avant le colloque (13 & 14 mai), nous organisons ?galement une ?cole th?matique "M?thodes empiriques en linguistique de l'usage". Il y aura 5 ateliers parall?les: linguistique de corpus, statistique cat?gorique en linguistique de corpus avec R, utiliser ELAN, utiliser CLAN, m?thodes exp?rimentales psycholinguistiques. Cette ?cole est ouverte ? toute personne souhaitant apprendre une des ces m?thodes. Si vous ?tes int?ress? ? suivre un de ces ateliers, merci de le signaler au plus vite ? Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr). Les frais d'inscription pour l'?cole sera aux alentours de 30 ? 40 euro par jour (d?jeuner et caf? inclus). *Inscriptions AFLiCo 5: information et proc?dures* Les inscriptions sont ouvertes ? compter du 22 janvier. Elles se font ? partir de la plate-forme http://aflico5.sciencesconf.org/ Si vous avez d?j? un compte sur scienceconf.org (cr?? pour le d?p?t d?une soumission ? ce colloque ou un autre), vous pourrez le r?utiliser. Nous vous invitons ? vous inscrire avant le 15 mars pour b?n?ficier des meilleurs tarifs : Les droits d?inscriptions pour les non-membres de l?AFLiCo sont de 130 euro (tarif normal) ou 60 euros (tarif ?tudiants). Les membres de l?AFLiCo b?n?ficient d?un tarif r?duit : 90 euros (tarif normal) et 40 euros (?tudiant). Pour ?tre membres de l?AFLiCo, vous pouvez vous inscrire en ligne, sur le site ?http://www.aflico.fr/membership.html?. La cotisation annuelle s??l?ve ? 20?. Apr?s le 15 mars, ces tarifs augmenteront de 40 ? : 170 ? (tarif normal) ou 100 ? (?tudiant) pour les non-membres, et 130 ? (tarif normal) ou 80 ? (?tudiant) pour les membres de l?AFLiCo. Les inscriptions seront closes ? compter du 8 avril 2013. Les droits d?inscriptions comprennent l?acc?s aux conf?rences pl?ni?res, aux sessions parall?les, une pochette du colloque, un badge nominatif, livret des r?sum?s et pauses caf?. *Repas* Le formulaire d?inscription vous permet de commander un repas de midi pour chaque journ?e de colloque : mercredi 15, jeudi 16 et vendredi 17 mai. Le repas coute 8 euro et comprend sandwich, boisson et dessert. *D?ner de gala* Un d?ner de gala est organis? le jeudi 16 mai au soir, dans un charmant restaurant situ? dans le centre historique du ?Vieux Lille? (http://www.lilleremparts.fr/en/index.php). Le Restaurant La Terrasse des Remparts vous propose un menu ? 48? comprenant ap?ritif, entr?e, plat, dessert (boissons incluses). Vous pouvez choisir un menu v?g?tarien. *Excursion au LaM* Le jeudi apr?s-midi apr?s 16h, nous vous proposons de participer ? une visite du LaM, Mus?e d?art moderne, d?art contemporain et d?art brut de Lille M?tropole. Ce mus?e, situ? ? Villeneuve d?Ascq tout pr?s de l?Universit? Lille3, vient de rouvrir apr?s r?novation, et propose une remarquable collection d?art brut qui vaut le d?tour (http://www.musee-lam.fr/). Vous pourrez visiter librement ou suivre une visite guid?e en anglais ou en fran?ais. Le tarif propos? (10 euros) ne comprend pas le d?placement jusqu?au mus?e (en transport en commun : de la station du Pont de Bois, prenez bus 41 arr?t L.A.M.). *T-Shirt* Pour seulement 12 euro, nous vous proposons d?acqu?rir un T-shirt souvenir du colloque, avec logo, titre et dates. Tailles : S/M/L/ ou XL *D?placements dans la ville* Nous vous conseillons d?acheter ? votre arriv?e ? Lille un carnet de 10 tickets de m?tro, qui vous permettront d?assurer tous vos d?placements sur la dur?e du colloque. Nous esp?rons vous voir ? Lille au mois de mai ! Maarten Lemmens, Annie Risler, Dany Amiot, Bert Cappelle From reng at rice.edu Tue Mar 19 23:57:59 2013 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:57:59 -0500 Subject: One-year lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology at Rice Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University is now accepting applications for a lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology. The successful applicant will be asked to teach courses in both of these areas, an introductory linguistics course, and may teach additional courses in his or her subject area. This is a one-year appointment, and the course load is four courses for that year. Deadline for receipt of applications is April 5, 2013. Ph.D. is required by time of appointment; position start date is July 1, 2013. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department's interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. See also our departmental web site at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and names and contact information for three references. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please send a pdf of all of your application materials to: rriley at rice.edu, with ?Laboratory Phonology Lecturer? in the subject line. From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Wed Mar 20 22:54:55 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:54:55 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Acquisition of referring expressions Paris In-Reply-To: <20130221183140.75925mm20g66hvy4@webmail.univ-paris3.fr> Message-ID: ACQUISITION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS: CROSSED PERSPECTIVES Date of conference: October 25-26, 2013 Location: Paris DEADLINE for submissions: April 1st 2013. Submissions will be registered on-line, via the Easychair platform (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeref2013) Sibmissions concern oral presentations, panel propositions and poster presentations We are happy to announce the participation of the following guest speakers Keynote Lectures: Shanley Allen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Eve Clark, Stanford University, Ca. USA Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Maya Hickmann, CNRS, Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France Elena Lieven, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Edy Veneziano, Universit? Paris Descartes, Modyco) And the DIAREF project team Oral presentations: Dominique Bassano (CNRS, Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France), Dagmar Bittner (Zentrum f?r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany), C?cile de Cat (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Jeannette Gundel (University of Minnesota, USA), Susana Lopez Ornat Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Yuriko Oshima-Takane ( McGill University, Montr?al, Canada), Ludovica Serratrice (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Barbora Skarabela (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Rushen Shi (Quebec University , Montr?al, Canada), Sophie Wauquier (Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France) For further information please visit our website : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013 Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le fran?ais contemporain CLESTHIA From srice at ualberta.ca Wed Mar 27 21:24:12 2013 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:24:12 -0600 Subject: ICLC-12 update (and looming Early Bird Registration deadline--31 March 2013) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: **Apologies for cross-postings** We have a number of announcements to make concerning the upcoming *12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference* being held at the University of Alberta, 23-28 June 2013. The conference is now less than three months away. (1) We have added a graduate student event (also open to post-docs and undergraduate students) on Tuesday evening, 25 June. The featured speaker will be Daniel Casasanto speaking on* *"The Hands of Time: What gestures reveal about space-time mappings". This presentation and mixer will feature food and a no-host bar. (2) We can confirm panelists for the two "Open Forums" which address, roughly, the past 25 years in the Cognitive Linguistics movement and the next 25 years. The "Looking Back" forum takes place late Monday afternoon, 24 June. The 12 panelists are: George Lakoff, Len Talmy, Ron Langacker, Dirk Geeraerts, Guenter Radden, Klaus-Uwe Panther, Claudia Brugman, Maggie Winters, Suzanne Kemmer, Sherman Wilcox, Eve Sweetser, and Arie Verhagen. The "Looking Forward" forum takes place late Tuesday afternoon, 25 June. The 12 panelists are: Chris Sinha, Jordan Zlatev, Laura Janda, Ron Chen, Maarten Lemmens, Nick Evans, Ewa Dabrowska, Seana Coulson, Alan Cienki, Steffi Wulff, Vera Tobin, and Daniel Casasanto. We're hoping for ample audience participation at these two events, both of which will be video-taped and made available as permanent podcasts. (3) A revised program will be posted by the end of this week on the conference website. (4) Early Bird registration ends this coming Sunday, 31 March. Regular pre-registration rates rise substantially as of 1 April. Regular registration rates go up again as of 1 June. If you are planning to attend the conference, please consider registering early--it will be cheaper for you! (5) Our colleagues in East Asian Studies would like to announce two pre-conference workshops of general interest to participants of ICLC-12. A day-long workshop on "Cognitive and Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language" will take place on Friday, 21 June, in Banff, Alberta. For more details, please go to < http://www.ptjc.ualberta.ca/Conferences/Cognitive%20Japan.aspx>. A two-day workshop on "Linguistic and Interactional Units in Everyday Speech: Cross-linguistic Perspectives" will take place on Friday and Saturday, 21-22 June, at the University of Alberta. For more details, please go to . (6) We invite those interested in live updates about the conference as well as view our photo gallery of past conferences to follow us on Facebook < https://www.facebook.com/pages/12th-International-Cognitive-Linguistics-Conference-ICLC-12/364659916945426?fref=ts> or Twitter . Dr. Sally Rice and Dr. John Newman Co-organizers of ICLC-12 (2013) Department of Linguistics University of Alberta iclc2013 at ualberta.ca www.foa.ualberta.ca/iclc2013 mirror site for China: https://iclc.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/12th-International-Cognitive-Linguistics-Conference-ICLC-12/364659916945426?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/iclc12