2008 LSA Summer Meeting for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Language as Interface

The Ohio State University, July 10-13, 2008

Abstracts for paper or poster presentations must be submitted by Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-summer08.cfm . Abstract review and notifications of acceptance will be done by April 30 at the latest.

Registration for the LSA 2008 Summer Meeting will be available on the website starting April 1, 2008. The deadline for advanced registration will be June 30, 2008. Meals and accommodation (double occupancy) are provided for all student presenters. Some travel support will also be available to student presenters. Upon acceptance, further information regarding meals, accommodation and travel support will be provided.

Visit http://linguistics.osu.edu/lsa08 for more details.

A bunch of Chicago linguists will be heading to New Zealand this summer for LabPhon 11, hosted by the Victoria University of Wellington. The presentations include…

• James Kirby and Alan Yu: Morphological paradigm effects on vowel articulation.
• Partha Niyogi and Morgan Sonderegger: What determines the stability of variation? A dynamical systems study of a stress shift in English.
• Alan Yu, Ed King, Stefan Behr, Barbara Fiedler, Juan Bueno Holle, and Christina Weaver: Sociophonotactics: The effect of perceived foreignness on phonotactic processing.

The schedule of the Symposium on Phonologization is now available at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/phonlab/phonologization.html. The symposium will take place on April 25-26 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities.

The 2nd Biannual Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place at The Ohio State University, Thursday, 10 July – Sunday, 13 July 2008. The meeting is directed specifically at undergraduate and graduate students in Linguistics, and has the following goals:

– To provide a supportive setting for students to present their research and obtain feedback on their work;
– To encourage the development of a community of scholars and a spirit of collaboration; and
– To provide students with the opportunity to learn about various aspects of the profession through targeted professional development panels.

The program will include career-related workshops on how to apply for a job, how to apply for graduate school, how to apply for funding, and how to publish research. There will also be paper/poster presentations, social events for networking, as well as the following invited presentations:

Interrelationship between Language and Music:
Ilse Lehiste

From Undergraduate Major to Linguistics Professor:
Mary Paster (Pomona College)

The Road to Industry:
Elizabeth Strand (Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary)
Frederick Parkinson (Nuance Communications)

Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations:
John Rickford (Stanford)
Tom Wasow (Stanford)

Abstract Submissions: All abstracts will be reviewed by the LSA Program Committee and by a panel of local organizers.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, 18 March 2008. Abstracts for 20-minute papers and for posters must be submitted electronically and must be accompanied by a completed Abstract Submittal Form to be eligible for review; see the LSA website (http://www.lsadc.org) for details and submission requirements. The online abstract submission module will open 1 March 2008.

Following the Summer Meeting, The Ohio State University will host a weeklong series of workshops offered by faculty and researchers from the OSU Linguistics community. The topics and instructors are as followed:

Quantitative methods in linguistics
Mary Beckman

ToBI labeling
Julie McGory

Corpora and corpus studies
Chris Brew and Mike White

Eye-tracking methodology
Kiwato Ito and Shari Speer

For more information, visit: http://linguistics.osu.edu/ or http://www.lsadc.org