LACUS meeting -- new featured speaker

[Sydney Lamb]

Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) 2009
Call for Papers
       - Revised List of Featured Speakers

The 2009 annual meeting of LACUS will be held August 4-8 at Pitzer
College (one of the Claremont Colleges), Claremont, California.

Conference theme: Mechanisms of Linguistic Behavior

LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to
language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas.

Featured Speakers:

* Gregory Hickok, UC Irvine
        What is the Nature of Sensory-motor Interaction in Speech
        Processing? Evidence from Neuroscience

* Sydney Lamb, Rice University
        Categories in the Brain: A Hypothesis

* Ronald Langacker, UC San Diego
        Conceptual Semantics, Symbolic Grammar, and the day after
        day Construction

* Michel Paradis, McGill University
        Implications of the Declarative/Procedural Distinction
        Neurolinguistic Studies

* William S-Y. Wang, UC Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong
             Concepts, Percepts, and Languages

Due Date for Abstracts: February 1, 2009
Earlier submission will be appreciated

Abstract Submission Guidelines are posted at
http://lacus.org/wordpress/?page_id=16

Suggested topics

The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than
comprehensive:

Neurological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Psychological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Sociological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Language and thought
Stratificational grammar
Relational network grammar
Computational linguistics
Functional linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
Linguistics and the physical sciences
The aims of linguistics
Language and reality

For further information: www.ruf.rice.edu/~lacus/2009.html

Program Chair: Douglas Coleman, Univerity of Toledo

Local host: John Regan, Claremont Graduate University