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Linguists to gather in Pittsburgh for national conference
Date:12/16/2010

(Washington, DC) Hundreds of linguistic scholars from across the U.S. and around the world will convene in Pittsburgh for the 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) this January. Members of the news media are invited to observe and report on the proceedings.

The meeting is scheduled for January 6-9, 2011, at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel. The meeting provides a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research focused on the scientific study of language. In addition to the LSA program, the meeting also features concurrent programs sponsored by the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

The meeting typically attracts more than 1,000 linguists who attend various sessions and workshops. Approximately 220 papers and 80 posters have been approved for presentation at the meeting. For a detailed listing of all meeting sessions, please visit the LSA website: http://www.lsadc.org/info/preliminary-program-2011.cfm

Research Highlights

Symposium: Razing the standards: Building and implementing linguistically informed K-12 curriculum in a climate of ignorance

There are many reasons to teach young people about ways to engage in rational inquiry about language: It is a fundamental aspect of their humanity, it provides a wholly accessible "laboratory" for practicing a range of methods of inquiry, and it opens doors to insights in areas related to language, but typically studied without reference to systematic inquiry about it. There is also overwhelming evidence that children have questions about language. There is outstanding work that brings the study of language into a variety of areas in K‐12 classro
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Contact: Alyson Reed
areed@lsadc.org
202-835-1714
Linguistic Society of America
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