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GURT2017: Variable Properties: Their Nature and Acquisition
10-12 March, 2017

GURT 2017 will focus on variable properties in language, all kinds, and particularly on how they are acquired. It will consider the full range of variable properties, how they are acquired by young children or adults, and how they may change across generations of speakers. A primary goal of GURT 2017 is to foster interaction and potential collaboration among researchers investigating language from the perspective of different subfields and using a range of methodologies. The conference aims to make progress toward a biologically coherent account of the full range of variation, bridging the silos that keep sociolinguists from interacting with students of syntactic variation, and keep historical linguists apart from phoneticians working on variability. A primary goal of GURT 2017 is thus to change the dialog, and to provide opportunities for experienced scholars to mentor young scholars, including graduate students and postdocs, working on variation, encouraging them to work across domains.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to October 31. View the call for submissions at https://gurt.georgetown.edu/Submission