http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog all things phonology | camba.ucsd.edu/phonoloblog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been sitting in on a class on developmental language disorders here at Purdue. The course instructor, Larry Leonard, was describing the Rice/Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment, which "assesses the use of tense and agreement morphology by children ages 3 through 8 years" (from my handout). Apparently, some people ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/11/10/how-do-we-feel-about-acronyms/ Workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition When and where: University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 13-14, 2010.  Robert Kirchner and Anne-Michelle Tessier, organizers Theme: Major advances have been made in recent years towards explicit  modelling of phonological acquisition, including increasingly  sophisticated OT learning algorithms, as well as application of general machine ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/30/reminder-nov-20-deadline-for-abstracts-workshop-on-computational-modelling-of-sound-pattern-acquisition/ The OCP 7 program, with clickable abstracts, is up. Lucky are those who will be in Nice in January. http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/30/ocp-7-program/ The Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time non-renewable Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship funded through a grant to the University from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The fellowship is for a period of two academic years, beginning September 1, 2010. In accordance with the fellowship ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/22/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-at-northwestern-university/ From Sheila Blumstein: The Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and the Department of Psychology announce that we will seek to fill four positions in language and linguistics over the next three years. Here we invite applications for an open-rank position in Phonetics/Phonology beginning July 1, 2010. Research focus is open, ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/22/phoneticsphonology-job-at-brown-university/ Hello, Phonologists! A quick introduction—I’m Peter Richtsmeier. I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Arizona, with expertise in phonological acquisition and learning theory, and I’m currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department at Purdue. I’m posting some scattered notes from last ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/21/a-phonologist%e2%80%99s-notes-from-the-neurobiology-of-language-conference/ [ Via LINGUIST List. ] The 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, to be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Dates of conference: 8-10 July 2010 Theme: Gesture as Language, Gesture and Language. More information at conference website http://www.unm.edu/~labfon12/ Deadline for abstract submission: 20 November 2009 Notification of ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/19/12th-conference-on-laboratory-phonology/ [ Via LINGUIST List. ] GLOW Workshop on Phonology and Phonetics Positional Phenomena in Phonology and Phonetics (Organised by Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) Date: 13 April 2010 Organisers: Marzena Zygis, Stefanie Jannedy, Susanne Fuchs Invited Speakers: Taehong Cho (Hanyang University, Seoul) confirmed Grzegorz Dogil (University of Stuttgart) confirmed Venue: Instytut ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/10/19/glow-workshop-on-phonology-and-phonetics/ The Contrastive Hierarchy in Phonology B. Elan Dresher Cambridge Studies in Linguistics No. 121 'Contrast' -- the opposition between distinctive sounds in a language -- is one of the most central concepts in linguistics. This book presents an original account of the logic and history of contrast in phonology. It provides ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/09/28/the-contrastive-hierarchy-in-phonology/ [ Via LINGUIST List. ] 'Mao Kong Forum' is established by the Mao Kong Graduate Student Phonology Group at the National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei. It will begin with a phonology conference this year. The conference is open to a wide range of submissions by international graduate students. Theme: Modern ... http://camba.ucsd.edu/blog/phonoloblog/2009/09/27/the-first-international-graduate-student-conference-on-modern-phonology/