The goal of ExAPP 2010 is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. Empirical approaches to the study of language variation and change can benefit largely from the accompaniment of systematic manipulation of variables in the research setting. The ExAPP2010 committee aims to offer a conference that covers aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof.

Some core topics of the conference include

• Perception of variation

• Production of variation

• Social meaning of linguistic features

• Language attitudes

• (Mutual) intelligibility

• Innovative methodologies

Plenary speakers for ExAPP 2010 are:

Raphael Berthele (Fribourg)
Quasi-experiments across languages: Investigations into multilinguals' capacities to understand genetically related languages

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State)
Implicit sociolinguistic cognition

Marianne Gullberg (Lund and MPI Nijmegen)
Two talen at once. Towards the experimental study of code-switching in bilingual sentence production

Mark Liberman (UPenn)
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Nancy Niedzielski (Rice)
Dialect perception: where production, perception, and variation meet.

Important dates

5 March 2010: Abstract deadline

15 April 2010: Notification of abstract acceptance

31 July 2010: End of early bird registration

11-12 November 2010: Conference

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