CFP: NWAV 41 @ Bloomington

Call Deadline: 31-May-2012
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41 will be held in Bloomington at Indiana University on October 25-28, 2012.

Invited Speakers:

Norma Mendoza-Denton
Dennis R. Preston
Sali Tagliamonte

Call for Papers:

NWAV 41 invites submissions for papers and posters on all scientific approaches to analyzing and interpreting language variation and change, including papers that combine perspectives to enrich our understandings. Authors may submit up to two abstracts, one individual and one joint.

Abstract should not exceed 500 words, excluding title and references. (There may be an additional page for references.) Abstracts will be subjected to blind review, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts. Authors should include the following information on the easy abstract web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) postal address, email address, and phone number; (4) five keywords that describe the research; and (5) preference for oral or poster presentation (or either), Abstracts must be submitted through Easy Abstracts (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/nwav41) starting on April 15. Please direct all inquiries to nwav41indiana.edu.

Visit our web page at: http://www.indiana.edu/~nwav41/

All submissions must be received by May 31, 2012.

Organizing Committee

Julie Auger
Stuart Davis
Manuel Díaz-Campos
Brian José

CFP: Seventh International Workshop on Language Production @ NYU

New York University
New York, NY
July 18-20, 2012

We are pleased to announce the 7th International Workshop on Language
Production: IWOLP '12. The three-day meeting will be organized around 12
invited talks (speakers listed below). This workshop brings together
researchers working across many areas of language production, and we
scheduled seminar-style talks on various levels of language production in
both normal and impaired populations. These talks span all facets of
language production from the creation of complex syntactic and discourse
structures to the processing of phonetic and phonological properties of
individual words. IWOLP '12 also hosts a special NSF-funded session titled
Computational, Cognitive and Neural Constraints on Language Production. The
workshop is co-organized by Adam Buchwald, Alec Marantz, and David Poeppel,
working together with the scientific committee of the workshop, listed
below.

Workshop: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 @ Case Western

August 1 – 5, 2012

Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive
Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in
Cleveland, Ohio August 1 – 5, 2012. See
https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information.

The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with
different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists,
corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where
specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together
where their various skills are combined.

Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated
cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or
corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical
issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their
careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc.

5th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference: Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications

Many lines of research on culture, mind, and brain can no longer be neatly separated. Some questions run together, thanks to our growing understanding of the genome, the biological roots of human sociality, and the mutual constitution of cultures and selves, as well as the complex interactions between the physical, cultural, and social environments underlying health and illness.

The aim of this 2-day conference is to highlight emerging concepts, methodologies and applications in the study of culture, mind, and brain, with particular attention to: (1) cutting-edge neuroscience research that is successfully incorporating culture and the social world; (2) the context in which methods are used as well as the tacit assumptions that shape research questions; and (3) the kinds and quality of collaborations that can advance interdisciplinary research training.

The conference is designed to appeal to a wide academic audience of biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and those in related fields interested in learning about cutting-edge interdisciplinary research at the intersection of culture, mind, and brain.