<b style="font-family: Times; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Deadline for submissions: March 15th** </span></b><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">[apologies for late posting to CHILDES; if an extension is needed, please email matt-goldrick@northwestern.edu]</span></font></b></div><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Variation in the Acquisition of Sound Systems</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop at the Linguistic Institute 2013: Universality and Variability</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Michigan</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday, June 28, 2013</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Co-sponsored by</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York University Department of Linguistics</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Northwestern Department of Linguistics</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop website</span><br><a href="http://groups.linguistics.northwestern.edu/lsa2011-workshop/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://groups.linguistics.<wbr>northwestern.edu/lsa2013-<wbr>workshop/</span></a><br><a href="http://groups.linguistics.northwestern.edu/lsa2011-workshop/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the role of variability in how sound systems are acquired or changed? This workshop examines this topic from a number of different phonetic, phonological, and psycholinguistic perspectives, including child language acquisition, non-native production and perception, sound change, and phonotactic learning. The workshop will be held on one day, including invited 1 hour talks (see below) and a <span class="il">poster</span> session.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">**<span class="il">Call</span> for <span class="il">poster</span> submissions**</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We invite submission of abstracts reporting computational, experimental, neurobiological, and grammar-based research on the role of variation in sound system acquisition and change.  </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Abstracts should be a one-page .pdf file, formatted at minimum 12-point single-spaced with 1 inch margins.  Tables, graphs and references can be on a separate page.  Abstracts must be submitted electronically to <a href="mailto:lsa2013-workshop@ling.northwestern.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">lsa2013-workshop@ling.<wbr>northwestern.edu</a>.  Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2011.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accepted abstracts will be posted to the workshop website.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Tentative Titles for Oral Presentations**</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa Davidson (New York University): Signal variability and phonetic detail in the production of non-native phonotactics </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Goldrick (Northwestern University): Abstraction and the acquisition of variable phonotactic patterns</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bob McMurray (University of Iowa): Variability and the emergence of abstraction from basic learning principles: Evidence from early word learning and reading</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katherine White (University of Waterloo): Coping with phonetic variation in early word recognition</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alan Yu (University of Chicago): Cross-individual variation in speech perception and production</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Organizers**</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa Davidson</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt Goldrick</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: Participants may also be interested in the workshop on "Universality and Variability: New Insights from Genetics" to be held the following weekend (June 29-30).  See </span><a href="http://genlang2013.weebly.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://genlang2013.weebly.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">for more details.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Contact**</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">web: </span><a href="http://groups.linguistics.northwestern.edu/lsa2011-workshop/" target="_blank" style="font-family: Times; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://groups.linguistics.<wbr>northwestern.edu/lsa2013-<wbr>workshop/</span></a><br><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">email: <a href="mailto:lsa2013-workshop@ling.northwestern.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">lsa2013-workshop@ling.<wbr>northwestern.edu</a></span></b><br></div>

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