28.3864, Calls: General LInguistics/USA

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Subject: 28.3864, Calls: General LInguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 14:52:45
From: Maura OLeary [wccfl36 at ucla.edu]
Subject: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36

 
Full Title: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 36 
Short Title: WCCFL 36 

Date: 20-Apr-2018 - 22-Apr-2018
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA 
Contact Person: WCCFL36 Committee
Meeting Email: wccfl36 at ucla.edu
Web Site: http://linguistics.ucla.edu/conference/wccfl36/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles is
pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the 36th West Coast Conference
on Formal Linguistics to be held April 20-22, 2018.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20 minute talks and posters on all aspects of
theoretical linguistics, including findings from language acquisition,
psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic research with formal implications. We
especially invite abstracts related to our two special sessions: “tone” and
“understanding islands” detailed below.

Special Sessions:

Tone:

WCCFL36 will include a special session on tone. We welcome submissions on all
aspects of tone in language, including its phonetics, phonology, typology,
acquisition, and processing.

Understanding Islandhood:

WCCFL36 will include a special session on “Understanding Islandhood” We
encourage submissions from various methodologies, perspectives, and traditions
(i.e. experimental, computational, fieldwork, etc) that are nonetheless
theoretically focused, addressing questions such as (but  not limited to):

- Is there a unified class of “island effects”?
- What sort of structure-building and interpretative mechanisms would
naturally give rise to a system exhibiting island effects?
- To what extent are islands dissociated from constraints on “smaller domain”
phenomena (e.g. case, A-movement, agreement)?
- Are island constraints principles of UG? does variation follow from
independent syntactic differences among languages, or from variation in the
constraints themselves?

Abstracts are not to exceed two pages of letter-sized (8.5″x 11″) paper,
including data and references, with 1″ margins on all sides, set in a font no
smaller than 11 points. The abstract should have a clear title, but should not
identify the author(s). The abstract must be submitted electronically in PDF
format, using the EasyChair submission system at the link below. You will see
fields for your title and abstract as well as an upload button. Please enter
the title in the appropriate box, and a one or two sentence summary in the
Abstract text field. This, along with the keywords, will be used to help
assign reviewers. If you would like your abstract to be considered for either
of the special sessions please indicate this in your submission.

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author,
or two joint abstracts per author.

Apply on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wccfl36




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