Department of Linguistics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2012
Measured Language: Quantitative Approaches to Acquisition, Assessment, Processing and Variation

March 8-11, 2012

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 14, 2011
Submit proposals at: http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2012/index.html

Plenary Speakers:

Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University
Penelope Eckert, Stanford University
Nick Ellis, University of Michigan
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Steven Ross, University of Maryland

Invited Colloquia on: 

Analysis of Language on the Web
Alalysis of ESL Writing
& More

GURT 2012 will bring together researchers presenting replicable methodologies for quantitatively analyzing different facets of language, with an emphasis on sharing and incorporating perspectives and findings across a diverse range of linguistic inquiry. Proposals will be blind reviewed for their originality, quality, and breadth of relevance. In addition, colloquium proposals will be evaluated for the coherence and complementarity of their individual presentations. Presenters will be invited to submit written versions of their presentations for inclusion in a volume of selected proceedings.

We invite proposals relevant to quantitative analyses of all aspects of language, but particularly:

First and Second Language Acquisition
Assessment of Language Learning
Natural Language Processing
Dialect and Register Variation
Corpus Linguistics
Crosscultural Communication
Discourse Analysis
Forensic Linguistics
Identity and Indexicality
Language and Gender
Style

GURT2012@gmail.com