<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">[apologies for cross-postings]</span></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Call for Participation</u></span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Variation in the Acquisition of Sound Systems</b></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop at the Linguistic Institute 2013: Universality and Variability</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Michigan</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Friday, June 28, 2013</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-sponsored by:</span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">New York University Department of Linguistics</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Northwestern Department of Linguistics</span></span><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This workshop examines the </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">role of variability in how sound systems are acquired or changed. The program includes spoken and poster presentations examining this topic from a number of different phonetic, phonological, and psycholinguistic perspectives, including child language acquisition, non-native production and perception, sound change, phonotactic learning, and sociophonetic variation. </span></span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop </span></span><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">will be held at the Institute from 9am-5pm on Friday, June 28. A full schedule and links to abstracts can be found on the workshop website:</span></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://groups.linguistics.northwestern.edu/lsa2013-workshop/" target="_blank">http://groups.linguistics.northwestern.edu/lsa2013-workshop/</a></span></span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Spoken presentations include:</span></div>
<div><ul style><li style><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Lisa Davidson (New York University): Variability attenuates sensitivity to acoustic detail in cross-language speech production </span><br>
</li><li style><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Matt Goldrick (Northwestern University): Abstraction and phonetic detail in the acquisition of gradient phonotactics</span><br>
</li><li style><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Bob McMurray (University of Iowa): Variability and the emergence of abstraction from simple learning principles: Evidence from early word learning and reading</span><br>
</li><li style><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Katherine White (University of Waterloo): Coping with phonetic variation in early word recognition</span><br></li><li style>
<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent">Alan Yu (University of Chicago): Cross-individual variation in speech perception and production</span><br></li></ul></div><div style="font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks to the generous support of the Departments of Linguistics at New York and Northwestern Universities, registration is free. However, if you are interested, we ask that you register online to help with planning the workshop: </span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://lsa2013-workshop.eventzilla.net/" target="_blank">http://lsa2013-workshop.eventzilla.net</a></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Space is limited, so on-site registration may not be possible.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Looking forward to seeing you in Ann Arbor,</span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Lisa Davidson</span></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Matt Goldrick</span></font></div>
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