Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology -Minneapolis,Minnesota(USA)- February'08

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Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese Second Language Phonology
February 22-23, 2008
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 
http://spanport.cla.umn.edu/L2phonology
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The sound system is often the most salient feature of second language
speech, especially to the non-specialist, yet it receives little
attention when compared to other areas of investigation within studies 
of second language acquisition. While studies of the acquisition of the
sound systems of Spanish and Portuguese by second language learners date
back as far as the beginnings of the field of modern linguistics, and 
while studies within this area of linguistic inquiry have continued ever
since and appear to be growing in numbers, there has never been a forum
– whether a meeting or a publication – to bring together the community 
of scholars conducting research in this area.

Abstracts are invited for presentations on any topic related to the
second language acquisition of the Spanish and Portuguese sound systems,
and the theme is intended to be construed as broadly as possible. The 
aim is to include in the conference a wide range of approaches to the
study of second language phonology, as well as a wide range of contexts,
from acquisition of Spanish phonology by English speakers to the
acquisition of Portuguese phonology by Spanish speakers, from
classroom-based learning to full immersion in the culture of the second
language, to name just a few of the possibilities.

Anonymous one-page abstracts (with a second page allowed for references 
and/or examples) should be submitted as e-mail attachments. Abstracts
should be submitted as Word (preferable) or PDF documents. Please embed
any special fonts. The body of the e-mail should contain the author's 
name, affiliation, e-mail address, mailing address, and phone number.
Each author may submit at most one abstract as sole author and one
jointly authored abstract.

Submit to: hispling at umn.edu

Abstract deadline: September 15, 2007

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Timothy L. Face
Assistant Professor - Hispanic Linguistics
Editor, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies 
University of Minnesota
51 Folwell Hall
9 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-1328
Fax: 612-625-3549

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