CFP: American Dialect Society (Midwest Region) @ Cincinnati, Ohio

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2012
The Midwest Region meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS) will be held jointly with the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) on 08-Nov-2012 - 11-Nov-2012 .

Topic: Social Factors in Language Variation and Language Attitudes - We welcome papers dealing with varieties of English and other languages spoken in the United States. Presentations may be based in traditional dialectology or in other areas of language variation and change, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, folk linguistics, language and gender/sexuality, language attitudes and ideologies, pragmatics and politeness, linguistics in the schools, or critical discourse analysis.

CFP: International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech

Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012

The focus of this international symposium will be the fast-growing body of research on convergence phenomena between speakers in speech. The symposium will also aim to assess current research on the brain and cognitive underpinnings of imitative behavior. Our main goal will be to bring together researchers with a large variety of scientific backgrounds (linguistics, speech sciences, psycholinguistics, experimental sociolinguistics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences) with a view to improving our understanding of the role of imitation in the production, comprehension and acquisition of spoken language.

CFP: Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology 6

The organizers of the 6th Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology (LARP6) announce the call for abstracts in the area of laboratory and instrumental approaches to the study of Romance phonology.

The conference theme is 'Linguistic Varieties in Contact' (both between languages and dialects). Possible perspectives include studies that are strictly phonetic and phonological as well as work on acquisition, sociolinguistics, pathology, etc., in which one or more languages are involved. In addition to the normal oral presentations, in this edition of the conference we will have an additional poster session.

Abstracts may be submitted at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/LARP2012-MX_IU and the contact email is larp2012.mxiugmail.com.

The preferred languages for presentation at LARP are Spanish and English, but presentation in other Romance languages are also accepted.

JOB: Postdoc @ Language and Cognition Lab, Indiana University

The Language and Cognition Laboratory (LaCL) at Indiana University seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in studying the psychological and neural aspects of language processing. To be eligible, applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, or Cognitive science, and have had experience with either the ERP (designing and carrying out ERP studies of language processing and analyzing EEG data) or the eyetracking methodology (i.e., text reading or the visual world paradigms). The postdoctoral researcher will take a leading role in designing and conducting experimental work on sentence processing, sentence-prosody interface, and various other language processing projects undergoing in the lab (including, for instance, syllable recognition, count/mass conceptualization, and bilingual language processing). The languages of interest are diverse. Currently, we have projects on East Asian languages in addition to English.

Call for Submissions: ‘Sociolinguistics: Application and Impact’

Compared to other subfields of linguistics, sociolinguistics has been
relatively outward facing since its inception. In one sense, this follows
naturally when collecting data from people in everyday situations. Yet
few can accuse sociolinguistics of being particularly meddlesome in the
political process. Nor has the discipline as a whole been overly
occupied with improving people’s lives. In fact, despite significantly
furthering our academic understanding of linguistic variation and
change, language policy and planning, language and identity,
language and gender and so on, very few people outside academia
have ever heard of sociolinguistics -- let alone its influence beyond the
groves of academe.

JOB: Research Assistant Professor @ Western Kentucky University

The Department of Psychology at Western Kentucky University seeks to fill a Research Assistant Professor (RAP) position in cognitive neuroscience. The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. in psychology or neuroscience, an established research program utilizing ERP/EEG measures, and a strong potential for obtaining extramural support. This is a full-time, 12-month research position supported jointly for 2 years by the Department of Psychology and the Office of Research. There are no teaching responsibilities in this position, but there is an opportunity to teach occasional classes if desired. Continuation beyond 2 years is contingent on the RAP obtaining grant funding to cover salary and research costs. It is expected that the RAP will collaborate with and/or assist Psychology Department faculty who want to incorporate ERP/EEG measures into their research. The Department is in the process of purchasing a 128-channel dense-array EEG/ERP system with an integrated eye tracking system. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applications should be received by March 15 for priority consideration. Send letter of application, vitae, three letters of recommendation, reprints/preprints, and copies of graduate transcripts to psych@wku.edu, or by mail to Department of Psychology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College heights Blvd., #21030, Bowling Green, KY 42101-1030. WKU is committed to promotion of stewardship and student engagement. WKU does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, or marital status in admission to career and technical education programs and/or activities, or employment practices in accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Revised 1992, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Available: GOLDVARB LION

Sankoff D., Tagliamonte S.A., & Smith E. (2012)

A joint effort of:

Department of Linguistics - University of Toronto
Department of Mathematics - University of Ottawa

Goldvarb Lion is now available for download free of charge at: http://individual.utoronto.ca/tagliamonte/
Goldvarb LION Works in OS 10.7 (Lion) and is backwards compatible at least to 10.5 from current reports)

GOLDVARB LION and GOLDVARB X are versions of the key methodological tool of variationist sociolinguistics — the variable rule program. This update of the program has been rewritten in C++ and runs in OS X LION (v 10.7). It is now compatible with either Macintosh or Windows environments and operates similarly in both. In addition, it has been revised to include a number of useful newuser-interface features. You can now:

· Perform cross-reference searches to easily find what you're looking for.
· Search for things outside of the coding string.
· Compute marginal results to one decimal place.
· Adjust the font size, if desired.

Since Goldvarb Lion is essentially the same as Goldvarb 2.0, there is no separate user manual; manuals for older versions of the program are available for Mac and Windows. Please note that they are not intended as technical introductions to the statistical workings of the program nor as a guide to the use of multivariate analysis. For this, see references to variable rules in the literature including those listed below. You may also want to read our troubleshooting section, which we hope to update as users report arising issues.

The previous release, Goldvarb X, is also still available for download free of charge:

CFP: Cognition and Language Workshop @ Santa Barbara, CA

Date: 14-Apr-2012 - 14-Apr-2012
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/call.html

The Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) invites abstracts for talks involving the relation between language and cognition. We welcome talks that investigate language as a cognitive activity as well as talks investigating cognition as a dimension of language. Talks may involve any area of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, computational linguistics, and others. We especially encourage empirical data-driven perspectives, as well as interdisciplinary talks connecting linguistics to other disciplines within cognitive science.

Bootcamp 'Statistics for Linguists with R' @ Santa Barbara, CA

Date: 06-Aug-2012 - 11-Aug-2012
Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/stgries/bootcamps2012.pdf
A 30-hours hands-on introduction to statistical methods for both graduate students and seasoned researchers. Using the open source software and programming language R, we will

- Briefly recap basic aspects of statistical evaluation as well as several descriptive statistics;
- Discuss monofactorial statistical tests for frequencies, means, dispersions, correlations;
- Explore different kinds of multifactorial and multivariate methods, in particular different kinds of regression approaches as well as hierarchical cluster analysis.

For all statistical methods to be explored, we will discuss how to test their assumptions and visualize their results with nice and annotated statistical graphs, and sometimes we will reanalyze published data from corpus-linguistic studies. The participants will also get small functions they can use for their own statistical applications. Also, there will be a small section on how to write small statistical/visualization functions yourself.

JOB: Postdoc In Neurolinguistics & Cognitive Science @ Nanyang Technological Institute

Postdoctoral fellow in Singapore (Neurolinguistics & Cognitive Science Lab, Nanyang Technological University). The candidate will run an EEG / ERP (and eye tracking) project independently and will take a leading role in this project. The project is mainly looking at the priming effects of language on printed advertisement. The candidate will supervise several undergraduate student research assistants in stimuli preparation, data collection, data analysis and manuscript preparation. A PhD degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience or other related fields is required. Experience running ERP experiments and data analysis independently is necessary. The candidate has to be comfortable with computers and new softwares. Knowledge of SPSS and any programming language is preferred. The position is for one year, available immediately, renewable subject to performance.

If you're interested, please send your CV to Dr. Alice H.D. Chan (alice@ntu.edu.sg). Lab webpage:http://www.cnl-ntu.com/