<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><b>Just one week left to register for the upcoming SLPW (free registration)! Please register by Friday, June 17, 2011.</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">The VALORIA Lab at l'Université de Bretagne-Sud, Vannes, France is proud to host the</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>Signed Language Phonology Workshop, Vannes, France, July 6-8, 2011</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">We invite researchers interested in the phonetics and phonology of signed languages to come discuss current trends in the areas of notation and analysis.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">----- This announcement in International Sign: <a href="http://youtu.be/Bh09HrMzxk8" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/Bh09HrMzxk8</a> -----</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www-valoria.univ-ubs.fr/signcom/SLPW/" target="_blank">http://www-valoria.univ-ubs.fr/signcom/SLPW/</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Workshop Schedule:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Wednesday, July 6, 9:00 - 18:00</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">- Robert E. Johnson, building on previous presentations at phonetics workshops held in Orsay, France, June 2008, November 2008, and May 2009, will offer a short review and detailed update of the notation system he and Scott Liddell have been developing.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Thursday, July 7, 9:00 - 17:00</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">- <i>Mini-workshop on phonetic annotation and technology: challenges encountered and novel solutions</i>. Submissions for this mini-workshop have been received, and the schedule will be posted soon.</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">- <i>Mini-workshop on sign analysis: participants' data</i>. All participants are asked to bring interesting phonetic or phonological examples from their data (difficult-to-annotate hand configurations; phonological processes, for example from surrounding signs; complex sign asynchronicity or asymmetry; etc.).</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Friday, July 8, 9:00 - 12:30</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">- <i>Mini-workshop/challenge in groups</i>: 20-second video annotation. Participants will be provided with a 20-second video clip and will be asked to annotate their data according to the Liddell and Johnson phonetic notation system. Results will be compared and discussed.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Location:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">VALORIA Lab</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Université de Bretagne-Sud</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Tohannic Campus</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Vannes, France</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Dates:</span> July 6-8, 2011</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Workshop languages:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">The official languages of the workshop are English and International Sign (IS).</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica"><span style="text-decoration:underline">Important date:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">June 17, 2011 - Deadline to register for the workshop</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Registration is <b>free</b>!</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">We look forward to seeing you at the workshop, July 6-8!</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Organizing Committee:</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Kyle Duarte</p>
<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Sylvie Gibet</p>