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<div>Dear Typologists,</div>
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<div>I wanted to let you know about two things of interest.</div>
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<div>* First, there will be a special organized session at the
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, as
follows:</div>
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<div><u><b>Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the
Field</b></u><br>
Sunday, January 9, 2005, 1-6 p.m.<br>
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Co-Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley<br>
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<div><b>Organizers:</b><br>
Larry Hyman, Linguistics Department, UCB<br>
Johanna Nichols, Slavic Department, UCB<br>
Lynn Nichols, Linguistics Department, UCB<br>
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<div><b>Other Participants:</b><br>
Mark Baker (Rutgers), Balthasar Bickel (U Leipzig), Joan Bresnan
(Stanford),<br>
Brian Joseph (OSU), Joan Maling (Brandeis & NSF), James McCloskey
(UC Santa Cruz), Frans Plank (U Konstanz), Maria Polinsky (UC San
Diego), Robert VanValin (SUNY Buffalo)<br>
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<div>The full statement and rationale for the session can be
downloaded at:</div>
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>http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/LSA_Typology_Workshop_Jan_9.p<span
></span>df</div>
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<div>We hope that it will be well-attended and welcome any reactions
or other input.</div>
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* Second, we at Berkeley have just established a Cross-Linguistic
Tonal Database (XTone), which is now "open for
business":</div>
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http://xtone.linguistics.berkeley.edu/<br>
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<div>Feel free to let people know/enter languages etc. (give us
feedback, etc.)</div>
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