Call for Papers: First SignTyp Conference

[Rachel Channon]

Call for Papers 

 

Call Deadline: January 15 2008

The First SignTyp Conference* will be held on June 26 to 28, 2008, at the
Linguistic Department of the University of Connecticut at Storrs.  The
conference will be devoted to theoretical aspects of sign languages,
specifically in phonetics and phonology. Contributors are invited to reflect
on the theme question of the conference: What does it mean to say that signs
have a phonological structure in addition to a phonetic description?  A
secondary theme question is: To what extent do sign languages differ in
their form properties?

 

It is our intention to publish a selection of the presentations as a
peer-reviewed book.

  

In addition to featuring a number of invited speakers, we solicit
submissions for 20-minute talks or poster presentations in these areas by
means of a 2-page (maximum) summary of your proposed paper (including
necessary references), in a MS-Word or PDF document by January 15 2008. (In
the interests of maximizing participation at the conference, each author may
not be involved in more than two abstracts.)  Abstracts may be  sent (email
only) to  <mailto:SignTyp at uconn.edu> SignTyp at uconn.edu.

 

Authors will be notified by February 28th 2008 whether their submission  has
been accepted for the conference.  2-page (camera-ready,  lettersize, 1 inch
margins all around) abstracts of accepted papers and  posters must be
prepared for the conference booklet by April 18 2008.

 

*The First SignTyp conference is supported by a NSF grant (BCS-0544944) the
aim of which is to  establish a crosslinguistic sign phonology and phonetics
database. Van der Hulst and Channon are the principle investigators on this
project.

 

Harry van der Hulst

Rachel Channon

University of Connecticut

Department of Linguistics, Unit 1145

337 Mansfield Road

Storrs, CT 06269-1145

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