35.247, Calls: 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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Subject: 35.247, Calls: 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association

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Date: 18-Jan-2024
From: Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara [jpguevara at umass.edu]
Subject: 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association


Full Title: 31st Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics
Association
Short Title: AFLA31

Date: 11-Jun-2024 - 14-Jun-2024
Location: University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Contact Person: Jed Pizarro-Guevara
Meeting Email: jpguevara at umass.edu
Web Site: https://blogs.umass.edu/afla31/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Phonology; Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): Austronesian

Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the
study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994,
AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential
venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on
Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all
subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical
linguistics, etc). AFLA has a history of bringing together leading
scholars, native speaker linguists, and junior scholars in the formal
study of Austronesian languages.

In addition to the main conference, AFLA 31 will include an integrated
special session on prosody and psycholinguistics in verb-initial
languages. The aim of the special session on connections between verb
initial languages is to bring together researchers working on prosody
and psycholinguistics in Austronesian as well as verb-initial
languages in other language families, creating a space for scholars
who do not normally collaborate to share ideas and perspectives. The
special session aims to foster discussion of the commonalities in the
comprehension and production of verb-initial languages and the prosody
of verb-initial languages. It also aims to contribute to informing
existing theories of sentence processing and prosody, which have been
developed primarily based on verb-medial and verb-final languages thus
far.

Invited Speaker (alphabetical order):
- Lauren Clemens & Lee Bickmore (University at Albany, State
University of New York)
- Maria Kristina Gallego (University of the Philippines Diliman)
- Dan Kaufman (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)
- Yining Nie (San Jose State University)
- Hero Patrianto (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Matt Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Pre-conference workshop
Constantijn Kaland (University of Cologne) will hold a pre-conference
workshop on June 11, 2024 on a computational, data-driven approach to
working with prosodic data. The workshop is intended to offer
methodology for initial exploratory work in languages with limited or
no prosodic descriptions for fieldworkers from a variety of
backgrounds, including those without training in prosody.

2nd Call for Papers:

**The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February
2, 2024 11:59pm EDT (UTC -4)**

Meeting Description:

The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) promotes the
study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. Since 1994,
AFLA has served internationally as the most prominent and influential
venue for presentation and discussion of recent research on
Austronesian languages. Research disseminated at AFLA spans all
subfields of linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, historical
linguistics, etc). AFLA has a history of bringing together leading
scholars, native speaker linguists, and junior scholars in the formal
study of Austronesian languages.

In addition to the main conference, AFLA 31 will include an integrated
special session on prosody and psycholinguistics in verb-initial
languages. The aim of the special session on connections between verb
initial languages is to bring together researchers working on prosody
and psycholinguistics in Austronesian as well as verb-initial
languages in other language families, creating a space for scholars
who do not normally collaborate to share ideas and perspectives. The
special session aims to foster discussion of the commonalities in the
comprehension and production of verb-initial languages and the prosody
of verb-initial languages. It also aims to contribute to informing
existing theories of sentence processing and prosody, which have been
developed primarily based on verb-medial and verb-final languages thus
far.

Invited Speaker (alphabetical order):
- Lauren Clemens & Lee Bickmore (University at Albany, State
University of New York)
- Maria Kristina Gallego (University of the Philippines Diliman)
- Dan Kaufman (CUNY Graduate Center)
- Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University)
- Yining Nie (San Jose State University)
- Hero Patrianto (Victoria University of Wellington)
- Matt Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Pre-conference workshop
Constantijn Kaland (University of Cologne) will hold a pre-conference
workshop on June 11, 2024 on a computational, data-driven approach to
working with prosodic data. The workshop is intended to offer
methodology for initial exploratory work in languages with limited or
no prosodic descriptions for fieldworkers from a variety of
backgrounds, including those without training in prosody.

Submission portal:
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6825/submitter

We invite abstracts for 20 minute talks and posters on work in all
areas of Austronesian linguistics, as well as abstracts on work on
prosody and psycholinguistics in verb initial languages from any
language family.

Abstract guidelines:
- Abstracts (including references and figures) should not exceed 2
single-spaced pages.
- Submissions must be on A4 size paper with 2 cm margins, and minimum
11pt font.
- All abstracts should be anonymous.
- Maximum 2 single-authored submissions per author (no limit for
co-authored abstracts)
- Abstracts must be submitted as a single pdf document through the
submission portal

Note: We will give preference to new work, but given the unusually
short time frame between the previous AFLA and AFLA 31, we encourage
work that has already been presented as long as there is some new
development.

We especially encourage submissions from junior scholars and students.
To ensure the participation of junior scholars, we will provide a
limited number of travel stipends for students whose abstracts are
accepted for a poster or a talk.

Organizing committee:
Kristine Yu (UMass Amherst)
Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara (UMass Amherst)
Alessa Farinella (UMass Amherst)

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the organizing
committee at afla31 at umass.edu



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