16.256, Calls: Phonetics/Phonology/Poland; Semantics/Japan

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Subject: 16.256, Calls: Phonetics/Phonology/Poland; Semantics/Japan

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1)
Date: 25-Jan-2005
From: Jaroslaw Weckwerth < wjarek at ifa.amu.edu.pl >
Subject: Exotic Phonetics

2)
Date: 25-Jan-2005
From: Norihiro Ogata < ogata at lang.osaka-u.ac.jp >
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2005

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:13:01
From: Jaroslaw Weckwerth < wjarek at ifa.amu.edu.pl >
Subject: Exotic Phonetics

Full Title: Exotic Phonetics

Date: 22-Apr-2005 - 22-Apr-2005
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Jaroslaw Weckwerth
Meeting Email: wjarek at ifa.amu.edu.pl
Web Site: http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

Exotic Phonetics Session at PLM 2005

Exotic phonetics

Clicks, interdentals, retroflex fricative trills or even front rounded
vowels are not 'staggeringly popular' among the languages of the world.
However, they are still there, being, ultimately, pronounceable and
perceivable. So what makes them more difficult and less popular?
Articulation, acoustics, or factors related to acquisition, inventory
organisation and social transmission? What are the interrelations between
those factors? From Trubetzkoy's markedness theory and Jakobson's
description of the order of phoneme acquisition, to Lindblom and
Maddieson's articulatory elaboration analysis of phonological inventories,
linguists have long been interested in the concept of relative ease and
difficulty of sound classes, and this interest has been reinforced recently
by advances in
research on self-organisation and evolution in phonetics and phonology.

This session aims to discuss the properties and behaviours of such 'exotic'
sounds. We invite contributions aiming at investigation of these marked
sound classes from a phonetic - but also phonological - point of view.
Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:

(1) Articulatory and acoustic description of 'exotic' sounds;
(2) Investigation of 'exotic' phonological systems;
(3) Phonological behaviour (e.g. phonotactics) of 'exotic' sound classes;
(4) Sound change involving 'exotic' articulations;
(5) Sociolinguistics of 'exotic' sounds;
(6) Acquisition of 'exotic' sound classes;
(7) 'Exotic' sounds in foreign language acquisition;
(8) Geographical distribution of 'exotic' inventories.

Abstracts, 300-400 words long, should be submitted by email to Jaroslaw
Weckwerth (wjarek_at_ifa.amu.edu.pl).
Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2005.
Notification of acceptance by 7 March, 2005.

Jaroslaw Weckwerth
Grzegorz Michalski
Dawid Pietrala

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:13:21
From: Norihiro Ogata < ogata at lang.osaka-u.ac.jp >
Subject: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2005

Full Title: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 2005
Short Title: LENLS2005

Date: 13-Jun-2005 - 14-Jun-2005
Location: Kitakyushu, Japan
Contact Person: Katsuhiko Yabushita
Meeting Email: yabuchan at naruto-u.ac.jp
Web Site: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~ogata/LENLS2005.html

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Chair: Katsuhiko Yabushita (Naruto University of Education)

Invited Speaker: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas)

Scope:
One of the characteristics of a natural language in contrast to a formal
language is the existence of plural (atomic) sentences of the same
prepositional content, but of distinct morphosyntactic and/or phonological
features, as in word order, intonation, etc.  Those features and their
associated interpretational functions have been studied under the rubric of
INFORMATION STRUCTURE.  The widely accepted view as to the interpretational
functions of information structure is that the information structure of a
sentence reflects the speaker's assumptions about the hearer's information
state as the speaker conveys some information to the hearer by the
utterance of the sentence.  With the view of information structure, dynamic
semantics, which takes the meaning of a sentence to be a (partial) function
updating information states, suggests itself for an ideal framework for a
formal semantic analysis of information structure.  The aim of this
workshop is to bring together researchers working on information structure
and/or dynamic semantics, and to advance the understanding of information
structure and the development of dynamic semantics for natural language.

Topics:
Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished
research in all fields of Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence,
including, but not limited to:

    * Logical Bases of Information Structure and Dynamic Semantics
    * Philosophical Bases of Information Structure and Dynamic Semantics
    * Linguistic Applications of Dynamic Semantics and Theory of
Information Structure such as:
       - Topic
       - Focus
       - Negations and Denials
       - Presupposition
       - Questions and Answers
       - Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
    * Probability, Dynamic Semantics, and Information Structure
    * Applications of Dynamic Semantics and Theory of Information Structure
to Cognitive Science
    * Applications of Dynamic Semantics and Theory of Information Structure
to Natural Language Engineering

Submissions:
Submissions of abstracts should not exceed 2 pages and they must be in .pdf
formats.
Abstracts must be sent in electronic form to: yabuchan at naruto-u.ac.jp
The accepted full papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in ''Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence.''

Important dates:
Deadline for abstracts: March 31st, 2005
Notification of acceptance:  April 15th, 2005
Camera-ready copies of papers (not exceeding 12 pages) for the proceedings:
May 10th, 2005
Workshop: June 13th-14th, 2005

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