I don’t quite know how I missed it on LINGUIST List back in October, but anyway: WCCFL 27 will be held at UCLA May 16-18, and there will be a special session entitled “Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias?”
The deadline for electronic abstract submission is January 15, 5pm PST. Get on it.
Thanks, Eric for alerting phonologists to the forthcoming UCLA WCCFL conference. Naturally I’m hoping there will be a lot of great phonology abstract! Below I’ve appended more information from the organizing committee.
–Bruce Hayes
The 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
May 16 – 18, 2008
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, USA
Invited Speakers
Hagit Borer – USC
Elliott Moreton – UNC
Liina Pylkkänen – NYU
General Session
Abstracts from all areas of formal linguistics and from any theoretical perspective are invited for 20-minute talks in the general session.
Special Session I: Experimental Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics
Support for formal linguistic theories can often be found in empirical study. Abstracts that use objective measures to address issues in syntax, semantics, or pragmatics are invited for 20-minute talks in this special session.
Special Session II: Explaining Phonological Typology: Channel or Analytic Bias?
One problem in addressing phonological typology has been the compatibility of data with both cognitive and phonetic predispositions. This session solicits papers which address and attempt to tease apart the effects of such biases.
Instructions for Abstract Submission
Abstracts must be at most one page long on a letter-size sheet (8″1/2 by 11″) with one-inch margins and typed in at least 11-point font. An optional second page is permitted for data and references. Abstracts must be anonymous.
For more information on how to submit an abstract, or on the conference, please visit our website: http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/wccfl27/