27.2678, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2678. Mon Jun 20 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2678, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology/UK

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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:32:04
From: James Kirby [j.kirby at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 4th International Workshop on Sound Change

Full Title: 4th International Workshop on Sound Change 
Short Title: WSC4 

Date: 19-Apr-2017 - 22-Apr-2017
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: James Kirby
Meeting Email: j.kirby at ed.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 4th International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC4) will be held from 20-22
April 2017 at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. WSC4 is the
continuation of the highly successful workshop series that have previously
been held in Barcelona (2010), Kloster Seeon (2012) and Berkeley (2014). The
aim of this workshop series is to bring together scholars from a wide range of
theoretical and methodological backgrounds in order to foster truly
collaborative and interdisciplinary work on the actuation, evaluation,
transmission, and diffusion of sound change.

The theme of this workshop is “individuals, communities, and sound change”,
with special attention to the role of individual difference in the initiation
and propagation of change. By “individual differences”, we refer to those
psychological, sociological, genetic and/or behavioural differences between
the individuals who make up a speech community at the levels of production,
perception and cognitive representation.

Some questions we will consider in detail at this Workshop include:

- How do individual differences relate to community patterns?
- How do they affect variation?
- How do they affect the initiation of changes? Do they help us to identify
variation that is likely to lead to change?
- How do they affect the phonologisation of changes?
- How do they affect the propagation of changes?

We have asked our invited speakers to comment specifically on these issues.
Abstracts also addressing these issues would be welcome, but submissions
addressing any and all aspects of sound change are encouraged - there is no
need for submitted abstracts to engage with the theme. 

Invited Speakers:

- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester)
- Alex Cristia (LCSP Paris)
- Dan Dediu and colleagues (MPI Nijmegen)
- Robin Dodsworth (NCSU)
- Penny Eckert (Stanford)
- Paul Foulkes (York) and Gerry Docherty (Griffith)
- Jonathan Harrington and colleagues (IPS Munich)
- Laurel MacKenzie (NYU)
- Jeff Mielke (NCSU)
- Alan Yu (Chicago)

Call for Papers:

Abstract Submission:

The workshop will consist of invited and contributed oral presentations,
discussion sessions, and poster sessions. We welcome submissions for poster or
oral presentation on any topic related to the workshop themes or to sound
change more generally.

Abstracts (PDF, 12 point font, max 1 page text + 1 page figures and
references) may be submitted via EasyAbstracts from 1 August - 15 October
2016. More information on abstract submission will be available on the
conference website (http://lel.ed.ac.uk/wsc/) in due course.

Satellite Workshops:

WSC4 is pleased to host two satellite workshops on 19 April 2017, the day
before the main workshop begins: Innovative Methods in Sociophonetics II and
Language, Socialization and Sound Change in Progress. Further details,
including contact information, can be found at 

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/wsc/satellites/

For More Information:

Please visit the conference website for further updates:
http://lel.ed.ac.uk/wsc

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