Heritage: workshop: Athabaskan Prosody

[Scott McGinnis]

Heritage Languages Listserve
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Date:  Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:54:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:  "S. Hargus" <sharon at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody

A Workshop on Athabaskan Prosody: Tone, stress, tone-stress interaction,
prosody-morphology interaction will take place Friday, June 9, 2000 in
Moricetown, B.C., Canada.  Invited speakers include: Jeff Leer, Siri
Tuttle, Bill Poser, John Alderete, Tanya Bob and Suzanne Gessner.
Funding for the workshop is provided by a SSHRC grant (to Tonia Mills,
Margaret Anderson and Sharon Hargus) and by workshop registration fees.

The annual Athabaskan Language Conference will take place Saturday and
Sunday, June 10-11, 2000, in Moricetown.  This year's conference will
feature a multi-media fair (pending sufficient submissions for a
'fair').
Funding for the conference is provided by The University of Northern
British Columbia, University of Washington, Kyah Wiget Education
Society,
and conference registration fees.

A conference web site has been set up at:

http://faculty.washington.edu/sharon/ALC2000/

The recently updated web site now includes:

	*registration form
	*accommodation guide and other logistical considerations

Participants should make their own arrangements for lodging in Smithers,
a
town about 21 miles to the south of Moricetown.  However, a limited
amount
of billeting in private homes in Moricetown may be available.  See
registration form.

Abstracts are currently being accepted for 20-minute presentations on
any
aspect of the Athabaskan languages: linguistics, pedagogy, language
maintenance, lexicography, language and culture, etc.  Abstract
submissions for either the prosody workshop or the conference per se are
welcome.

Please send a 1-page abstract to Sharon Hargus by May 1, 2000. Abstracts
may be submitted by e-mail (sharon at u.washington.edu), FAX (206
685-4263),
or regular mail (Sharon Hargus, University of Washington, Department of
Linguistics, Box 354340, Seattle WA 98195-4340).  Include your name,
institution, address, e-mail address, and phone or FAX. One-page
abstracts
must be accompanied by a 50-word version, which will be posted on the
conference web site.  Abstracts for multi-media presentations should
also
specify format of presentation and equipment needed.

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Sharon Hargus      Department of Linguistics             (206) 685-4263
                   University of Washington          FAX (206) 685-7978
                   Box 354340
                   Seattle WA 98195-4340
sharon at u.washington.edu