Conference call

The workshop follows the inaugural and highly successful Workshop on Sound Change held in Barcelona in October 2010. This 2^nd Workshop on Sound Change is organized by Jonathan Harrington and Mary Stevens (Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich). Our goal is to continue to examine aspects of sound change from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. For this second workshop, oral presentations are organized around the following specific themes:

Coarticulation, the listener & sound change
Social/dialect factors & sound change
Imitation, entrainment & sound change
Language acquisition & sound change
Evolutionary models of sound change
Computational modeling of sound change
Phonology and sound change

The workshop consists of invited talks, discussion sessions and poster sessions. Abstracts describing empirical research on sound change are welcomed for poster presentation at the workshop. Invited speakers include:

Mary Beckman (Ohio State University)
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)
John Ohala (Berkeley)
Cynthia Clopper (Ohio State University)
Maria-Josep Solé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Juliette Blevins (City University of New York)
Louis Goldstein (University of Southern California)
Patrice Beddor (University of Michigan)
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia)
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
William Labov (University of Pennsylvania)
Morgan Sonderegger (University of Chicago)
Khalil Iskarous (Haskins Laboratories)

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2nd Workshop on Sound Change

Conference call

2^nd Workshop on Sound Change