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>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 17:25:47
>From: <rmhemphi@midway.uchicago.edu>
>Subject: Thanks for the inspiration...
>To: in%"lise.menn@colorado.edu"

>ChiPhon -- the Phonetics and Phonology Group at the University of
>Chicago -- provides a forum for discussing fundamental questions in
>spoken language research. 
>
>Last year, over 100 people joined us for a day-long panel on whether
>speech is special. This year, as part of the 34th annual meeting of
>the Chicago Linguistic Society, we examine how language acquisition
>data should be incorporated into phonological and phonetic theory.
>
>
>                                ChiPhon '98
>                            Saturday, April 18,
>                             Chicago, Illinois
>
>                    THE ACQUISITION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE
>
>"the ideal relationship between central and developmental portions of
>a field would be one in which the investigators in each... would
>construct model children who were capable of developing into adults
>and, conversely, model adults who could have developed from children"
>(Menn, 1980).
>
>* Which provides a better measure of a speaker's successful
>acquisition of speech -- perceiving contrasts or producing them? How
>are PERCEPTION & PRODUCTION related to linguistic competence?
>
>* How should acquisition data be used when formulating and evaluating
>phononological theories of tone and stress? What are the PROSODIC
>PRIMITIVES, and are they innate or can they be bootstrapped from the
>signal?
>
>* What speech processing mechanisms are responsible for
>SECOND-LANGUAGE development? Are they the same as those for adults
>processing L1 or for infants acquiring it? What does DISORDERED
>PHONOLOGY tell us about these mechanisms?
>
>We invite abstracts that treat the acquisition of spoken language as
>integral to the development of linguistic theory.
>
>Invited Speakers:
>	James Flege (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
>	Peter Jusczyk (Johns Hopkins University)
>	Robert Port (Indiana University)
>
>
>CONFERENCE INFO
>Like last year, this year's symposium will provide ample opportunities
>for discussion with talks throughout the day, a box lunch, and an
>hour-long discussion at the end.
>
>
>
>OTHER EVENTS that weekend include a panel on LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND
>THE LEXICON on April 19.
>
>* Sophisticated CONNECTIONIST MODELS of language and acquisition
>provide an ideal framework for constructing linguistic theories that
>incorporate the complex interactions between sounds, symbols and
>meanings.  
>
>* The ways in which we conceptualize the organization of MORPHOLOGY
>have different implications for first and for second language
>acquisition.
>
>* Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny and for mature organisms we look at
>LEXICAL ACCESS convinced cognition then recapitulates ontogeny.
>
>Invited speakers:
>	Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)
>	David Pisoni (Indiana University)
>	Terry Regier (University of Chicago)
>
>The CLS conference will also host a panel on The Status of Constraints
>in Linguistic Theory on April 17, with John McCarthy and Jerrold
>Sadock.
>
>Papers on phonology, morphology, and syntax, among others, will be
>presented during the main sessions on April 17-19, with Diana
>Archangeli and David Dowty.
>
>SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT VIA EMAIL TO rmhemphi@midway.uchicago.edu
>BY JANUARY 31, 1998. 
>
>                        FOR FURTHER INFORMATION,
>             http://humanities.uchicago.edu/humanities/cls
>                                   or
>                     http://gsbdrl.uchicago.edu/cls
>
>
>
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609; fax 303-492-4416

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