7.974, Confs: Sign Language Research, Conflicting Constraints
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LINGUIST List: Vol-7-974. Wed Jul 3 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 269
Subject: 7.974, Confs: Sign Language Research, Conflicting Constraints
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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 23:15:45 EDT
From: d126244 at er.uqam.ca (Chris Miller)
Subject: Conference: Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
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Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:02:44 +0200
From: GILBERS at let.rug.nl ("D.G. Gilbers")
Subject: BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints
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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 23:15:45 EDT
From: d126244 at er.uqam.ca (Chris Miller)
Subject: Conference: Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
The Fifth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign
Language Research, co-sponsored by McGill University and the
University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), will take place at UQAM from
the19th to the 22nd of September 1996. The program includes over 70
presentations in the form of plenary lectures, panel discussions and
poster sessions. General topics to be covered during the meeting
include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics,
sociolinguistics, and language acquisition.
Invited speakers include Sam Supalla and Jennie Singleton (Effects of
sign language fluency on literacy development), Elissa Newport (TBA)
and Sue Bailey and Kathy Dolby (The Canadian Dictionary of
ASL). Special sessions and round-table discussions will be held on the
cross-linguistic study of sign language acquisition, literacy,
notation and technology and special symposia and workshops will be
held on topics in lexicography, sociolinguistics, phonology and syntax
.
Registration for the Conference includes the reception, coffee breaks,
conference kit, Program and Abstract Book, and all conference
sessions. The cost of the Sunday Morning Silent Brunch must be paid
separately from the conference fee. To attend the Conference, please
complete the enclosed registration form and send it together with
correct payment to:
TISLR '96 Secretariat
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request. After August 15, 1996, refund requests will not be accepted.
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Web site at the following address:
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/d126244/TISLRhomepage.html
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contact the Organizing Committee at:
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Christopher Miller
d126244 at er.uqam.ca
Groupe de recherche sur la LSQ et le francais sourd
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
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2)
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:02:44 +0200
From: GILBERS at let.rug.nl ("D.G. Gilbers")
Subject: BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints
BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints
AZG, Building 59, room 16
Groningen, July 5, 1996
Organizers: Dicky Gilbers and Helen de Hoop
Program
9.00 - 9.25 registration (AZG, Building 59, Ronde Zaal)
9.25 opening
Chair: Jack Hoeksema
9.30 - 10.30 LUIGI BURZIO (Johns Hopkins University)
Multiple Correspondence
10.30 - 11.00 Roberto Bolognesi (University of Amsterdam)
Language-Particular Constraints in an Open Grammar
11.00 - 11.15 coffee
Chair: Henriette de Swart
11.15 - 11.45 Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University of Konstanz)
Constraint Reranking vs. Parameters: the Mixed
Focusing System of Kanakuru
11.45 - 12.15 Matthew Baerman (University of California, Berkeley)
The Emergence of Prosodic Constraints in
Macedonian
12.15 - 12.45 Arto Anttila & Young-mee Yu Cho (Stanford U)
Variation and Change in Optimality Theory
12.45 - 13.45 lunch
Chair: Hotze Rullmann
13.45 - 14.45 BRUCE TESAR (Rutgers University)
An Iterative Strategy for Language Learning
14.45 - 15.15 Glenn Frankenfield (University of Maine at
Farmington)
Constraints on Speech Errors
15.15 - 15.45 Wataru Nakamura (SUNY at Buffalo)
Economy versus Iconicity: How to Constrain
Constraint Ranking
15.45 - 16.00 tea
Chair: Paulien Rijkhoek
16.00 - 16.30 Sergio Menuzzi (Leiden University)
Soft & Hard Constraints on Anaphoric Forms
16.30 - 17.00 Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman (Utrecht University)
Conflict resolution in passive formation
The workshop will be held at the Onderwijscentrum of the Academisch
Ziekenhuis Groningen (AZG), Hanzeplein 1 (there is another entrance to
the hospital at the Oostersingel. Once you have passed the gate,
follow the signs to number 59.
Within the building the route to the BCN Summer School venue will be
signposted. The workshop will take place on the second floor.
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