28.1464, Confs: Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1464. Thu Mar 23 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1464, Confs: Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:02:13
From: James Kirby [j.kirby at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 4th International Workshop on Sound Change

 
4th International Workshop on Sound Change 
Short Title: WSC4 

Date: 19-Apr-2017 - 22-Apr-2017 
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact: James Kirby 
Contact Email: j.kirby at ed.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://lel.ed.ac.uk/wsc/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

The 4th International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC4) will be held from 20-22
April 2017 at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. WSC4 is the
continuation of the highly successful workshop series that have previously
been held in Barcelona (2010), Kloster Seeon (2012) and Berkeley (2014). The
aim of this workshop series is to bring together scholars from a wide range of
theoretical and methodological backgrounds in order to foster truly
collaborative and interdisciplinary work on the actuation, evaluation,
transmission, and diffusion of sound change.

The theme of this workshop is “individuals, communities, and sound change”,
with special attention to the role of individual difference in the initiation
and propagation of change. By “individual differences”, we refer to those
psychological, sociological, genetic and/or behavioural differences between
the individuals who make up a speech community at the levels of production,
perception and cognitive representation.

Some questions we will consider in detail at this Workshop include:

- How do individual differences relate to community patterns?
- How do they affect variation?
- How do they affect the initiation of changes? Do they help us to identify
variation that is likely to lead to change?
- How do they affect the phonologisation of changes?
- How do they affect the propagation of changes?

We have asked our invited speakers to comment specifically on these issues. 

Invited Speakers:

- Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (Manchester)
- Alex Cristia (LCSP Paris)
- Dan Dediu and colleagues (MPI Nijmegen)
- Robin Dodsworth (NCSU)
- Penny Eckert (Stanford)
- Jonathan Harrington and colleagues (IPS Munich)
- Laurel MacKenzie (NYU)
- Jeff Mielke (NCSU)
- Alan Yu (Chicago)
 

Programme: 

Please visit http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/wsc/programme/ for details of the
workshop programme.





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