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[Sophie Wauquier]

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Sujet: 	Call for Papers
Date : 	Sun, 7 Oct 2012 16:00:01 -0500
De : 	Alan Yu <aclyu at uchicago.edu>
Pour : 	mfm at lists.ed.ac.uk



Call for Papers

Workshop on Sound Change Actuation
April 17-18, 2013
University of Chicago

One of the great mysteries of linguistics is the so-called actuation 
problem, that is, what causes the inception of language change, if the 
linguistic conditions favoring particular changes are always present? 
This problem of language change was first articulated by Weinreich, 
Labov, and Herzog in 1968 and is still largely unanswered to this day.

This workshop will focus on the role of the individuals in the actuation 
of sound change. Previous studies on sound change have mainly focused on 
group-normative effects, that is, effects that are representative of the 
population as a whole. Recent work has drawn on interspeaker variation 
as a solution to the actuation puzzle. Understanding the source(s) of 
the individual linguistic differences is seen as crucial for 
understanding sound change propagation, particularly for the purpose of 
identifying the characteristics of the linguistic innovators and early 
adopters of change.

The workshop will consist of four theme panels targeting the perceptual, 
articulatory, socio-indexical and computation aspects of the actuation 
problem in sound change. The invited speakers and discussants are:

Perceptual factors in sound change actuation: Cynthia Clopper (Ohio 
State); Pam Beddor (Michigan)
Articulatory factors in sound change actuation: Bryan Gick (British 
Columbia); Jeff Mielke (Ottawa/NCSU)
Socio-indexical factors in sound change actuation: Rob Podesva 
(Stanford); Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
Computational modeling of sound change actuation: Janet Pierrehumbert 
(Northwestern); Morgan Sonderegger (McGill)/James Kirby (Edinburgh)

The deadline for submitting abstracts is Jan 15.

See the website for further details.

http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/phonlab/sound-change-actuation/



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