CUNY CONFERENCE ON THE PHONOLOGY OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Cosponsored by the CUNY Phonology Forum, the CUNY Endangered Language Initiative and the MA/PhD Program in Linguistics at the City University of New York.

SAVE THE DATE! January 12th-14th, 2011, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

The CUNY Conference on Phonology and Endangered Languages invites presentations addressing what we have learned and are learning from the sound patterns of languages that are endangered or threatened, with a special emphasis on understudied languages. Papers and poster presentations are invited on any topic related to the phonology and phonetics of endangered languages from any perspective.

The formal call for papers is here: Call for Papers. Due date for abstracts is September 1, 2010.

Invited speakers include:

• Pattie Epps (UT Austin)
• Matthew Gordon (UCSB)
• K. David Harrison (Swarthmore)
• Amanda Miller (Ohio State University)
• Keren Rice (U of Toronto)
• Erich Round (Yale)

Panel on Urban Fieldwork.

The conference will also feature a panel on urban fieldwork from the Endangered Language Alliance. "A trio of poet, professor, and field linguist have combined forces in the heart of New York City to document, support, and protect one of the most precious stores of cultural, scientific, and creative human knowledge: living languages. The Endangered Language Alliance (ELA, pronounced ay-la) is a new organization whose goal is is to further the threatened and endangered languages, and to educate the public about the causes and consequences of language extinction. In a small office on West 18th Street known as the Urban Fieldstation, endangered languages are being spoken, recorded, and translated before they possibly recede further into the margins." For more, see a recent New York Times article about endangered languages and their speakers in New York City.

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