NWAV2000

Thu Mar 23 12:21:17 UTC 2000

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29th Annual NWAV Conference
"The Future of the Art" October 5-8, 2000
Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and
The Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support The American Dialect Society
and the MSU Department of Anthropology

OVERVIEW:
Presentations and posters (paper and PowerPoint)
Preconference statistics workshops
Publishers' displays
Three "Plenoquia" (Plenary Colloquia)
Thursday - Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Theory
Friday - Sociolinguistics and the Social Sciences (organized by Lesley Milroy)
Saturday - Applications of Sociolinguistics (organized by Donna Christian)

All the following (and additional information) is posted at the conference
website http://nwav.lin.msu.edu. If you cannot access a website, you may
respond
to the call for papers, register for the conference and workshop(s), and
reserve
accommodations by fax, telephone, snail-mail, or e-mail.

Persons with disabilities should notify the NWAV organizers at
nwav at pilot.msu.edu when they register of any special needs. Requests received
after that time will be met when possible.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are invited in all areas of linguistic variation for 20-minute
presentations  (plus a ten-minute discussion period) and for posters (paper or
PowerPoint).

Abstract specifications:  Abstracts should include the full title of the
submission and the author's name(s), with mailing address, institutional
affiliation, e-mail, fax and phone numbers. The entire abstract must be no
longer than 500 words, including identification and references. Indicate at the
end whether your submission is to be considered for a presentation, a paper
poster, or a PowerPoint poster. (You may indicate more than one.)

NB: There will be an overhead projector and screen in each room. If you have
other AV needs, please indicate what they are at the bottom of your abstract.

Submission: Abstracts can be submitted as follows:
1) On the conference web site (http://nwav.lin.msu.edu)
2) By e-mail as an ASCII (text) message (nwav at pilot.msu.edu); no attachments
3) Fax to (517) 432-2736, marked "NWAV Abstract"
4) Snail-mail to:

Department of Linguistics and Languages - NWAV
A 614 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027

Deadline for the receipt of abstracts: June 1, 2000
Abstracts will be anonymously refereed.
Expected notification date:  August 1, 2000

Registration:
Regular $125.00
Student $75.00

Registration must be received by September 15. On-site registration fees
will be
increased by $25.00.

Registration includes:
1) Subscription to the journal Language Variation and Change for the 2001
publication year Volume 13, Numbers 1-3, Cambridge University Press)
2) Registration packet and meeting handbook
3) Thursday and Friday night reception and Saturday night dinner-dance
4) Breakfast, mid-morning, and mid-afternoon refreshments, Friday,
Saturday, and
Sunday morning
5) Admission to all venues of the conference: papers, posters, electronic
posters, plenary sessions, and publishers' displays.

Workshop registration:
1 Workshop $10.00
2 Workshops $20.00
3 Workshops $25.00

Workshops in statistical and acoustic analyses of linguistic data will be
offered beginning Thursday at noon. It will be possible to attend a maximum of
three workshops (each approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes long).

Workshops are planned in the following areas:
ANOVA and MANOVA
Regression and Multiple Regression
VARBRUL
Logistic Regression
Factor Analysis
Dual and Multidimensional Scaling
Acoustic Analysis of English Vowels
Statistical Analysis of Areal Linguistic Data

Registration payment:
All registration communications must include:
Your name (first and last)
Institutional affiliation
Mailing address
Phone number
e-mail address
Please indicate if you will need ASL interpretation.

Please indicate if you are paying for
regular ($125.00)
or
student ($75.00) registration

Please indicate if you are also registering for 1 ($10.00), 2 ($20.00), or 3
($25.00) workshops

You can register
1) By e-mail (with VISA or MasterCard number included) to hansen at msu.edu
2) By fax (with VISA or MasterCard number included) to Linda Hansen-NWAV
517-432-0129
3) By mail (with check [in US $] or VISA or MasterCard number enclosed) to
Linda Hansen-NWAV
Arts and Letters
201 Linton Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824 USA

4) At the conference website (http://nwav.lin.msu.edu)

Accommodations:
Accommodations at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center are rooms with
private
bath at 76.00 per night (plus Michigan 6% sales tax), single or double. Make
your reservations directly with the Kellogg Center, mentioning the NWAV
Conference:
1) By phone 517-432-4000
2) Toll-free 800-875.5090
3) By fax 517-353-1872

The Kellogg Center website is http://www.hfs.msu.edu/kellogg/
The Kellogg Center provides transportation gratis to the conference center from
the Lansing Airport.

Student Accommodations:
A small number of first-come first-served double rooms (sorry, no singles),
dormitory style, will be available directly across the street from the
conference center. The cost is $20.00 per person per night (plus 6% Michigan
sales tax). You must reserve these rooms with the conference organizers
directly
at nwav at pilot.msu.edu or on a form at the conference website
(http://nwav.lin.msu.edu).

Travel:
The Lansing Airport is served, non-stop, from Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and, most frequently, Detroit. There is no
regular ground transportation from the Detroit Airport to East Lansing. If you
do not fly to Lansing from Detroit, your only real option is to rent a car (for
a one hour to one and one-half hour drive). There will be no parking charge for
conference participants at either the Kellogg Center or the student dormitory.

Trouble:
If you have any difficulty contracting any of the above e-mail addresses or
websites, please call 517-353-0740 (The Department of Linguistics and Germanic,
Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University) and ask to
speak to an NWAV Conference organizer.

Tentative Program:
Thursday, October 5
10:00   Registration begins, poster set-up, publishers' displays set-up
12:00   Workshop session #1 (three choices)
2:00    Workshop session #2 (three choices)
4:00    Workshop session #3 (three choices)
6:00    Plenoquium #1 (Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Theory, Auditorium)
7:30    Reception in Big 10 Room A

Friday, October 6
7:00    Breakfast buffet
7:30    Registration opens
8:30    Papers begin; publishers' displays open, posters open
10:00   Break
10:30   Papers
12:00   Lunch
1:30    Papers
3:00    Break
4:00    Poster session
5:30    Plenoquium #2 (Sociolinguistics and the Social Sciences, Auditorium)
Free Time ("Take a student to dinner")
9:00    Student Associations Reception

Saturday, October 7
7:00    Breakfast buffet
7:30    Registration opens
8:30    Papers, publishers' displays open, posters open
10:00   Break
10:30   Papers
12:00   Lunch
1:30    Papers
3:00    Break
4:00    Papers
5:30    Plenoquium #3 (Applied Sociolinguistics, Auditorium)
7:00    Dinner-Dance (Big Ten Room A)

Sunday, October 8
7:00    Breakfast Buffet
9:00    Papers
11:00   Conference ends
12:00   Check-out time>Top 50 Oxymorons

Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
preston at pilot.msu.edu
Office: (517)353-0740
Fax: (517)432-2736