27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
vii + 466 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-428-7 library binding, $375.00

This volume contains 52 of the 59 papers from the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 27), which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 16-18, 2008. The authors present new work in syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology. The proceedings includes Elliott Moreton's plenary paper, "Modelling Modularity Bias in Phonological Pattern Learning."

This volume is now available on the web, and the printed edition will ship in January 2009.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

Selected Proceedings of the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
edited by Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Elena Valenzuela

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
v + 311 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-427-0 library binding, $250.00

This volume contains 25 papers selected from the 10th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS), held at the University of Western Ontario in October 2006. The papers are organized into sections on acquisition, phonology, syntax, language contact and variation, and pragmatics. This proceedings is now available on the web, and the printed edition will ship in January 2009.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium
Selected Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages

4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
edited by Maurice Westmoreland and Juan Antonio Thomas

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
vii+161 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-426-3 library binding, $190.00

This volume contains 16 papers selected from the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, which was held at the University of Albany, SUNY in April 2008. Plenary papers by José Luis Blas Arroyo and Jonathan Holmquist lead off the proceedings. The other papers are organized into sections on phonological variation, morpho-syntactic variation, discourse analysis, and language contact. This proceedings is now available on the web, and the printed edition will ship in January 2009.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
Selected Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics

Suggestions for a new edition of Surviving Linguistics

Monica Macaulay is working on a new edition of her very popular Surviving Linguistics: A Guide for Graduate Students. We’d like your suggestions: What would you like to see in a new edition? What changes would you make? What’s missing that you would like to see? Do you have advice of your own to offer to linguistics grad students and those considering graduate school in linguistics?

The current edition has some sections that are primarily aimed at grad students in North America. If you’re a professor or grad student elsewhere, tell us about graduate school where you are. How is it different from or similar to what is described in the book? Do you think the expectations and experiences of grad students are reasonably universal, given the natural variation in everyone’s personal experiences? Or is graduate school and the academic job search significantly different in Australia or Japan or Germany or England or elsewhere?

You can leave your short or long suggestions here in the comments, or send them via e-mail to Cascadilla Press or Monica Macaulay. We’re eager to hear from you!

2007 Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2007)

Selected Proceedings of the 2007 Second Language Research Forum
edited by Melissa Bowles, Rebecca Foote, Silvia Perpiñán, and Rakesh Bhatt

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
vi + 262 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-425-6 library binding, $270.00

This volume contains 19 papers selected from the 30th annual Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2007), which was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2007. The papers are divided into sections on morphosyntax, pragmatics, phonology, awareness, conversation analysis, and heritage language acquisition. This volume is now available on the web, and the printed edition will ship in January 2009.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Two earlier proceedings from the Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) are still available from Cascadilla Press:

SLRF 2000
The Past, Present, and Future of Second Language Research: Selected Proceedings of the 2000 Second Language Research Forum

SLRF 1999
Social and Cognitive Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum

Book exhibit at NELS

Cascadilla Press will be participating in the book exhibit at the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39) at Cornell University from November 7-9, 2008. We’ll be displaying our recent books in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as Arboreal, our popular syntax tree font for Mac and Windows.

Book exhibit at BUCLD 33

Cascadilla Press will have a book display at the 33rd Boston University Conference on Language Development at Boston University on October 31 to November 2, 2008. We will be exhibiting all of our recent books, software, and teaching aids, including past BUCLD Proceedings. We will also have several items there from our CafePress shop, such as our IPA chart poster and fun bumper stickers. The proceedings of BUCLD 33 will be published in 2009 by Cascadilla Press, and we offer a discount for advance orders.

Book exhibit at GALANA 3

Cascadilla Press will have a book display at GALANA 3 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs on September 4-6, 2008. We will be exhibiting our recent books, software, and teaching aids, including the proceedings from GALANA 2. We will be selling books on Thursday and Saturday before and during the poster sessions.

El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas

El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas
editado por Jennifer D. Ewald y Anne Edstrom

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Cascadilla Press (www.cascadilla.com) viii + 280 pages publication date: July 30, 2008 ISBN 978-1-57473-027-2 paperback, $38.95 ISBN 978-1-57473-127-9 library binding, $78.95

These engaging short essays explore linguistic answers to real questions that students confront when studying Spanish. The informative and sometimes surprising answers, all written in Spanish, are provided by experts in Hispanic linguistics. Each chapter includes activities designed to stimulate further exploration and discussion.

Estos fascinantes artículos ofrecen respuestas lingüísticas a preguntas reales con las que se enfrentan a menudo los estudiantes de español. Estas informativas y a veces sorprendentes respuestas, todas escritas en español, son proporcionadas por expertos en lingüística hispánica. Cada capítulo incluye actividades diseñadas para estimular la discusión y posterior investigación.

El español a través de la lingüística is a perfect fit for courses in Hispanic linguistics. The book will help future or current Spanish teachers answer many of their students' questions, and introduce thought-provoking topics for advanced language learners in composition or conversation courses. The first chapter provides a general introduction to the field of linguistics and, as such, presents an overview of the volume itself. All of the chapters are designed to be self-contained, so you can read or assign chapters that best meet your interests. If you want to evaluate this book for course adoption, examination copies are available. El español a través de la lingüística is available in paperback and in library binding (no dust jacket).

Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish

Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish
Timothy L. Face

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Cascadilla Press (www.cascadilla.com) xii + 168 pages publication date: July 15, 2008 ISBN 978-1-57473-026-5 paperback, $24.95 ISBN 978-1-57473-126-2 library binding, $64.95

Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish presents the many phonetic symbols and symbol systems that linguists have used for the sounds of Spanish. More than 450 clear entries for symbols and diacritics describe their meanings in the RFE, IPA, and American systems, as well as less common and unconventional uses. The book includes an overview of the Spanish sound system and a helpful glossary of phonetic terms. Guide to the Phonetic Symbols of Spanish will prove invaluable for scholars and students of Spanish phonetics and phonology, and a necessary resource for linguists who encounter the abundance of phonetic symbols used for Spanish.

CafePress: bumper stickers

Want to dress up your car or office door with a linguistics bumper sticker? We now have 20 different bumper stickers in our CafePress shop, where we sell fun and useful linguistics items.

New shipping rates

Effective July 7, 2008, our shipping rates are changing. Shipping within the United States is now $6 for the first item, $3 for each additional item. Air mail shipping outside the United States is now $12 for the first item, $6 for each additional item. As always, two-volume sets count as two items for shipping.

This is our first shipping rate change since 2001.

3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology

Selected Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology
edited by Laura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
v + 181 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-424-9 library binding, $210.00

This volume contains 12 papers selected from the 3rd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, which was held at Victoria College at the University of Toronto in September 2006. The conference brought together experimental researchers working on phonetics, phonology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and speech disorders. The proceedings includes the plenary papers by John Kingston and Eugenio Martínez-Celdrán, and the other papers are organized into three sections: (1) liquids: singletons and clusters, (2) vowels, and (3) prosody.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonetics and Phonology

26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
vii + 524 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-423-2 library binding, $375.00

This volume contains 55 of the 62 papers, plus three alternates, from the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 26), which was held at the University of California, Berkeley on April 27-29, 2007. The authors present new work in syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology. The proceedings includes papers from two invited talks: “How Many Grammars Am I Holding Up? Discovering Phonological Differences between Word Classes” by Adam Albright, and “Processing Ellipsis: A Processing Solution to the Undergeneration Problem?” by Lyn Frazier.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Proceedings of the 24th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

BUCLD 32 Proceedings

BUCLD 32: Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by Harvey Chan, Heather Jacob, and Enkeleida Kapia

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Cascadilla Press (www.cascadilla.com) viii + 609 pages (2-volume set) publication date: April 2008 ISBN 978-1-57473-084-5 paperback, $55.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-184-2 library binding, $120.00

The 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development was held November 2-4, 2007, in Boston, MA. The proceedings contain 51 of the papers presented at the conference, including the keynote paper by Ellen Bialystok and the plenary paper by William O'Grady. The two-volume set covers a wide range of research in language acquisition and language development. The complete table of contents can be seen on the Cascadilla Press web site.

The posters from the conference are not included in the printed proceedings, but many are available from the conference in an on-line proceedings supplement.

Details about previous volumes in this series are available at www.cascadilla.com/bucld.html.

Expanded CafePress shop

We have expanded our CafePress shop, where we sell linguistics posters, apparel, teddy bears, and more. By popular demand, we’ve added new versions of many of our classic items — “Mom’s Favorite Data Generator” can now also be “Dad’s Favorite Data Generator” — as well as entirely new items like mugs, mousepads, and shirts featuring the IPA vowel chart. It's the perfect place to find gifts for that special linguist in your life!

Come see a movie

Linguistics at the Sundance Film Festival? We just heard about this a few days ago. The Linguists is a new movie about the extinction of languages around the world, following David Harrison and Gregory Anderson as they go on three expeditions to document languages that are nearly gone. Hollywood Reporter loved it. The movie is playing three times in the next couple of weeks around Boston, a free screening at MIT and twice as part of the International Film Festival Boston:

April 24, 7:00-8:30 pm, MIT, free screening and discussion with David Harrison (details)
April 26, 12:00-1:15 pm, Brattle Theatre (details)
April 28, 5:15-6:30 pm, Somerville Theatre (details)

If you’d like a free ticket for the April 28 showing at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square courtesy of Cascadilla Press, send us an e-mail by April 17 with your name and mailing address. (If you did not receive a reply from us, post a comment here.) There are a limited number of tickets that we can buy for this showing, so please only request a ticket if you will definitely use it.

Update: We’ve placed our ticket order, and we’ll be mailing out the tickets to everyone who requested them on April 22. See you at the movie!

Exhibit at ACAL 39

Cascadilla Press will exhibit several books at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 39) at the University of Georgia, Athens, from April 17-20, 2008. We’ll have proceedings from ACAL 35, ACAL 36, and ACAL 37 on display, as well as some of our other linguistics titles. The proceedings from ACAL 38 will be published later in 2008, and the proceedings from ACAL 39 will be published in 2009. Advance orders are welcome.

Environmental news

The book printer we use for offset printing has been widely recognized as a leader in environmental responsibility in the printing industry. We were delighted to learn that they now offer FSC-certified paper (cover and text) which we’ll be using for offset print runs starting this month with the forthcoming BUCLD 32 Proceedings paperbacks. That’s an immediate benefit of over 400,000 pages shifted over to FSC-certified paper. We hope our digital book printers will make a similar shift soon.

Exhibit at LSRL 38

Cascadilla Press will exhibit several books at the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 38) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from April 4-6, 2008. We’re showcasing some of our collection of textbooks and edited collections on Spanish linguistics, such as Robert Hammond’s textbook The Sounds of Spanish. Later this year we’ll be publishing two great new books on Spanish linguistics—details coming soon!

Exhibit at HEL-LEX 2

Cascadilla Press will exhibit several books at the second symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX 2) in Lammi, Finland (north of Helsinki), from April 25-27, 2008. Among the books on display will be the Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), which we published in 2006. We will publish the proceedings of HEL-LEX 2 in early 2009.

9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007)

Proceedings of the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007)
edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Jason Rothman, Paula Kempchinsky, and Elena Gavruseva

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
v + 284 pages
publication date: 2008

ISBN 978-1-57473-422-5 library binding, $280.00

This volume contains 25 papers selected from the 9th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2007), which was held at the University of Iowa on May 18-20, 2007. Subjects covered include telicity, wh-constructions, specificity, the structure of new grammars acquired by adults, and other topics related to L2 acquisition.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.

Previous volumes in this series:
Proceedings of the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006)
Proceedings of the 7th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2004)
Proceedings of the 6th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2002)

ISB4 Proceedings on the web

By special arrangement with the conference organizers, we now have searchable access to all of the papers from the ISB4 Proceedings on our web site. Each paper in the table of contents at www.cascadilla.com/isb4.html has a link to the complete pdf file for that paper. The pdf file for each paper is identical to the CD-ROM and printed edition, with an added cover sheet at the end containing the information from the title page and copyright page of the proceedings. You can also search the entire ISB4 Proceedings at www.cascadilla.com/isb4.html.

5th Décembrettes

Selected Proceedings of the 5th Décembrettes: Morphology in Toulouse
edited by Fabio Montermini, Gilles Boyé, and Nabil Hathout

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Cascadilla Proceedings Project (www.lingref.com)
vi + 114 pages
publication date: 2007

ISBN 978-1-57473-421-8 library binding, $180.00

This volume contains 9 papers selected from the papers and posters presented at the morphology conference 5th Décembrettes, which was held at the University of Toulouse-le Mirail on December 7-8, 2006. The conference had one day devoted to analogy and lexical pressure in morphology, and a number of papers examine analogy in morphology. Other papers address interfaces between morphology and other domains of linguistics: phonology, semantics, typology, and psycholinguistics. All of the papers are centered on data, but the authors explore general theoretical questions along with specific analyses.

Proceedings from Cascadilla Proceedings Project are published in library binding and on the web. We offer free web access to the complete proceedings in PDF format through our web site, www.lingref.com.