30.3860, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3860. Sat Oct 12 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3860, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 04:12:17
From: Lefteris Paparounas [lefteris at sas.upenn.edu]
Subject: 44th Penn Linguistics Conference

 
Full Title: 44th Penn Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: PLC 44 

Date: 27-Mar-2020 - 29-Mar-2020
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Lefteris Paparounas
Meeting Email: lefteris at sas.upenn.edu
Web Site: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 11-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

The 44th annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 44) will take place on March
27-29, 2020 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. 

The conference will feature a keynote speech by Caroline Heycock (University
of Edinburgh), as well as a special themed panel on `Rules and Generalizations
in Language and the Brain', bringing together invited speakers from
linguistics and neuroscience.

PLC 44 welcomes submissions of papers on any topic in linguistics and
associated fields, to be presented as a talk or poster. Alongside the main
sessions, the conference will feature a special session dedicated to the
presentation of undergraduate work.


Call for Papers:

Keynote speaker: 
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh). Title TBA.

Panel: On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, we will be holding a special
themed panel entitled `Rules and Generalizations in Language and the Brain'.
In the past hundred years, neuroscientists and linguists have separately
discovered a great deal about the structure of the brain and the structure of
language.  For this year's PLC panel, we will explore what we have learned
about how the brain represents the structure of language: how do our brains
acquire and use the abstract categories and rules that many linguistic
theories propose? The panel will bring together speakers whose work on the
brain basis of language is informed by both neuroscience and linguistics.

Panel moderator: Kathryn Schuler (University of Pennsylvania)

Invited panelists: To be announced

Undergraduate session: PLC 44 will feature a special session devoted to the
presentation of undergraduate research. Undergraduate students are warmly
encouraged to submit an abstract showcasing their research in any subfield of
linguistics and related disciplines.

Submission Guidelines: Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated
fields are welcome. Session topics in recent years have included phonology,
syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. We
encourage abstracts on both spoken and signed languages. Speakers will have
twenty minutes for each presentation, followed by five minutes for discussion
and questions. The conference will also include a poster session with catered
lunch. Abstracts should indicate whether they are being submitted for
consideration as a talk, poster, or both. (See instructions for authors
below.)

Deadline: Abstracts are due by November 11, 2019. Notification of acceptance
will be given by the end of January 2020.

Length: Please limit abstracts to two single-spaced pages in 12pt font,
including examples, figures, and references. Examples and figures may be
interspersed with text. Abstracts should be anonymized: please do not include
your name or affiliation within the abstract.

Format: To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a
.pdf file.

Instructions for authors: Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc44). For detailed instructions on
how to submit an abstract, visit the full version of the Call for Papers on
the conference website. 

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide
camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

For More Information:
Email: plc at ling.upenn.edu
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC

Penn Linguistics Conference
Department of Linguistics
3401-C Walnut Street
Suite 300, C Wing
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 
USA

This event is supported by funding from SASgov, the student government for
graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences; GAPSA, the Graduate and
Professional Students' Association at the University of Pennsylvania; the
Linguistic Data Consortium; the Integrated Language Science and Technology
initiative; and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.




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