The 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology-The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[Kelley Sacco]

LabPhon 9
Change in Phonology
June 24-26, 2004
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology will be held at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hosted by the Department of
Linguistics and the Beckman Institute. The conference theme of Change in
Phonology addresses the development of an individuals phonological
knowledge and the development of phonological systems in languages over
time through a set of six sub-themes related to variation and change in
phonology.

Sub-themes and invited participants:
Acquisition as change: L1 phonology
LouAnn Gerken, University of Arizona , invited speaker
Stefan Frisch, University of South Florida, discussant
Phonological models of variation in computer speech processing
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, invited speaker
Carol Espy-Wilson, University of Maryland, discussant
Prosodic influence on change in sound patterns
Cécile Fougeron, CNRS-Université Paris 3, invited speaker
Kenneth de Jong, Indiana University, discussant
Social factors in phonetic variation
Gerry Docherty, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, invited speaker
Henrietta Jonas-Cedergren, Université du Québec à Montréal, discussant
Mechanisms of sound change
Jonathan Harrington, Macquarie University, Sydney, invited speaker
Elizabeth Hume-O'Haire, Ohio State University, discussant
Phonological change through the interaction of L1-L2 in bilinguals and
language learners
James Flege, University of Alabama, invited speaker
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona, discussant


Important Dates:
Abstract (1-page) submission: October 31, 2003
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004
Submission of accepted papers: April 15, 2004

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Contact: labphon9 at uiuc.edu