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Date: 15-Sep-2010
From: Phillip Tipton < p.tipton at chester.ac.uk >
Subject: Variation and Language Processing 2011
 

	
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:16:44
From: Phillip Tipton [p.tipton at chester.ac.uk]
Subject: Variation and Language Processing 2011

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Full Title: Variation and Language Processing 2011 
Short Title: VaLP 2011 

Date: 11-Apr-2011 - 13-Apr-2011
Location: Chester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Phillip Tipton
Meeting Email: p.tipton at gmail.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/valp2011/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Dec-2010 

Meeting Description:

The issue of variation in the speech signal is becoming increasingly 
influential in paradigms of language processing which have, hitherto, largely 
assumed an idealised speaker-hearer as the source and receiver of the 
signal.  Insights from variationist sociolinguistic studies of (mainly) speech 
production, for example, have demonstrated that structured variation is an 
inherent property of language performance and the most recent work in 
sociophonetics has underlined the importance of building variation into 
adequate models of both speech production and perception. A common 
theme underlying much work carried within the sociophonetic paradigm is 
that notion that linguistic and social information are processed in similar 
ways.  This forms part of the wider sociolinguistic concern as to the nature, 
representation and processing of social meaning. Innovative methodologies, 
including those drawn from experimental psychology, are now being 
exploited by variationist sociolinguists to better understand the complexities 
of the relationship between language variation, change and social meaning. 
Equally, the burgeoning field of experimental pragmatics places at its heart 
an experimental approach to the the relationship between language and 
meaning.  VaLP 2011 aims to offer an opportunity for linguists and others to 
present research on the interface between linguistic variation, at all levels of 
the grammar, and language processing.  The conference further aims to act 
as the catalyst for the launch of an international network of scholars working 
at the interfaces of their linguistic sub-disciplines, bringing together
sociolinguists, psycholinguists and experimental pragmaticians, as well as 
other linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists working on the 
relationship between linguistic variation, in its widest sense, and language 
processing.

Invited Speakers (more to be confirmed)

David Britain (University of Bern)
Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)
Norma Mendoza-Denton (University of Arizona)
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) 

Call For Papers

We invite the submission of abstracts from any area of the language 
sciences which detail research in keeping with the theme of the conference.  
Abstracts, which will be peer-reviewed, should be no longer than one side 
of A4 paper (including references) and may be presented in either .pdf or 
.doc format. Tables etc. may be presented in an appendix.  Abstracts 
should be anonymous with the author details contained within the body of 
the email.  Please submit abstracts to p.tipton at chester.ac.uk.





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