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

Overview | Contents | Preface (in English) | Prefacio (en español) | Order form

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

Overview | Cover | Contents | Sample entry | Order form

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

Table of contents | Order form

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

Table of contents | Order form

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

Contents | Series Info | Order form

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.