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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Call for papers (call deadline
</span></font><st1:date Month="9" Day="1" Year="2007"><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>1 September 2007</span></st1:date><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:bold'>Transmission
and Diffusion: the impact of first and second language learning on language
variation and change<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Venue: </span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Radboud</span></st1:PlaceName><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>University</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Nijmegen</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>, Centre for Language Studies<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'>, 17-19 January 2008</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The title ‘Transmission
and Diffusion’ is inspired by Labov’s recent paper (to appear in <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'>Language</span></i>), in which he attempts to fit together the family
tree model of language change with the wave model into a general framework
based on changes in language learning ability across the lifespan. The general
argument is that the (usually relatively slow) divergence of branches of the
family tree is based on the transmission of language structure from adults to
children (who learn the native language with depth and perfection), and the
incrementation of changes in progress by children. The diffusion of language
contact across branches of the tree is primarily the work of adults who do not
preserve structural conditions with the same fidelity (as adult second language
learning is to varying degrees imperfect), which accounts for the limitations
on borrowing of structure. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Labov illustrates these issues
by case studies on recent and ongoing changes in the sound system of
North-eastern American city dialects based on the American Dialect Atlas. The
overall model proposed opens a number of perspectives and at the same time
raises a number of interesting larger questions that set the theme for this
conference.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The theme of the conference
can be approached on various levels of scale.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>the macro-level of (sub-)continental transmission
and diffusion patterns, as in historical-comparative work on larger
language families such as Amerind, Austronesian and Trans-New Guinea
Phylum, or Semitic within Afro-Asiatic<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>the meso-level of language contact, acquisition,
and pidgin and creole studies<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>the micro-level of more fine-grained (historical)
dialectological research, e.g. within the Germanic language area<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We welcome theoretically
informed papers on the following intersecting issues and perspectives:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Issues of convergence vs. divergence: the view
that incrementation of change in progress by children is primarily
responsible for divergence is relatively well-supported by the shape of
the Indo-European family tree. Is the converse also possible, i.e.
can<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>relative homogeneity within
language branches arise out of original diversity by convergence fuelled
by incrementation during first language learning? Such questions can be
approached on various scales: the perspective might span the time frame
involved in the shaping of a language family tree, but is equally useful
when considering the level of dialects, dialect contact resulting from
urbanization and so on. Case studies on the role of first and second
language learning in convergence and divergence are especially welcome,
particularly if they move beyond the realm of sound correspondences and
address topics in morpho-syntax as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Questions concerning processes involved in first
language learning and second language learning: why should first language
learning necessarily lead to incrementation of change in progress? One
issue with respect to second language learning is whether more drastic
language contact and less drastic dialect contact involve the same kinds
of processes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Evidence for first and second language learning,
or: making the best of bad data (another notion coined by Labov). There is
recent major progress in quantitative research tools tracking down
relatively diffuse patterns in historical data, concerning phonological as
well as morpho-syntactic diversity. Thus, it is now possible to
distinguish typical effects of first and of second language learning, even
at considerable historical depth, and including grammatical properties. As
a result, sophisticated quantitative methodologies are rapidly being
developed to allow more refined research into language/dialect
relationships resulting from transmission and/or diffusion than has
hitherto been possible.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As a
research tool, such methodologies may cut both ways: they may serve to
separate the effects of stable transmission and of diffusion through
language contact in histories of language families; on the other hand,
they may help in tracing deeper relationships that may exist with isolated
languages that seem typologically remote. Similarly, such methodologies
may serve to reveal the superficially rather diffuse effects of dialect
contact in situations of urbanization such as arose in </span></font><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Western Europe</span></st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> during the late Middle Ages.
Case studies developing and using such research tools based on historical
corpora and on typological databases are particularly invited.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Invited speakers<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Lyle Campbell<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>(</span></font><st1:State><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Utah</span></st1:place></st1:State><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>William Labov (Penn)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>April McMahon (</span></font><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Edinburgh</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jürgen Meisel (Hamburg)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jonathan Owens (Maryland)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Russell Gray (</span></font><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Auckland</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Fred Weerman (</span></font><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Amsterdam</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Donald Winford (</span></font><st1:State><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Ohio</span></st1:place></st1:State><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:bold'>Abstracts are
solicited for 45 minute papers (including 10 minutes discussion).<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Please send in an abstract of max. one page,
single spaced, Times New Roman pt. 12 or equivalent font (excluding references).
Abstracts should be sent by </span></font></b><st1:date Month="9" Day="1"
Year="2007"><b><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:
bold'>1 September 2007</span></b></st1:date><b><span lang=EN-GB
style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:bold'> to <a
href="mailto:transmission.diffusion@let.ru.nl">transmission.diffusion@let.ru.nl</a>.
Notification of acceptance can be expected by15 October 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The conference is organised by
the research programme <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Language in Time and Space</span></i>
at the Centre for Language Studies CLS Radboud University Nijmegen,
Netherlands, (<a href="http://www.ru.nl/cls/">http://www.ru.nl/cls/</a>). This
group comprises researchers in various departments in the Radboud Faculty of Arts
and at the Max Planck Institute, </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Nijmegen</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>. Working on a variety of languages,
they share a common interest in the forces that shape various types of language
variation and change, with a strong methodological commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>
Checked by AVG.<BR>
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date: 20-3-2007 8:07<BR>
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No virus found in this outgoing message.<BR>
Checked by AVG.<BR>
Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date: 20-3-2007 8:07<BR>
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