30.2120, Confs: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2120. Mon May 20 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2120, Confs: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/USA

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Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 16:42:18
From: Georgia Zellou [gzellou at ucdavis.edu]
Subject: 5th Workshop on Sound Change

 
5th Workshop on Sound Change 
Short Title: WSC 5 

Date: 21-Jun-2019 - 23-Jun-2019 
Location: Davis, California, USA 
Contact: Alan Yu 
Contact Email: wsc5uc at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/wsc5/home 

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

Meeting Description: 

The 5th International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC 5) will take place June
21-23, 2019, at the University of California, Davis. The WSC 5 is part of the
conference series held in conjunction with the 2019 Linguistic Institute at UC
Davis. 

The WSC began as a small meeting where researchers investigating aspects of
sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives
could be brought together and work on substantive issues in the field and
share ideas and findings. The core idea behind the WSC 5 is to bring together
researchers working on sound change who come from a variety of different
backgrounds and disciplines to have conversations, integrate their
perspectives and insights, and make substantive progress on questions that
remain in the field. 

The Special theme of the 5th WSC is sound change in endangered and small
speech communities. Sound change research, as in most work in phonetics and
phonology, has focused on languages that have historically been dominant or
where speakers are easily accessible. The dynamics of language endangerment
and interaction between small groups of speakers may provide unique
opportunities for sound change to take place. Small speech communities have
different social factors than large communities, leading to phonetic and
cognitive influences to interact and diffuse in different ways when there are
fewer agents. How sound change might originate and diffuse in speech
communities of different sizes is poorly understood. Furthermore, endangered
and small languages are often heavily influenced by other languages and
cultures, making sound change more likely. In order to make useful models and
predictions about when and how sound change will occur, we need to explore
these patterns in diverse speech communities. 

In addition to the Special theme, the WSC 5 will be a place where scholars
come together and make substantive progress on outstanding theoretical
questions and issues in the field. General issues addressed at the workshop
often include questions regarding the identification of the sources of sound
change, and the mechanism of sound change propagation.
 

Program:

The full program can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/view/wsc5/program





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