The 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics-March 12 and 13, 2016

The 3rd Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-3) will take place on March 12 and 13, 2016, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. The conference focuses on new advances in Cantonese Linguistics, including innovations in methodologies, tools, and/or computing software. New approaches and research on language variation within the Cantonese (or “Yue”) subgroup of the Chinese language family, language contact phenomena, and new subfields and their interfaces are especially welcome. This is the third of the WICL series that is held biennially in North America.

Keynote speakers:

• Professor Stephen Matthews
  Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR)

• Professor Valter Ciocca
  School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

Please see our call-for-papers page (http://u.osu.edu/wicl/wicl-3/cfp/) for information on abstract submission.
Abstract deadline: By November 1, 2015, 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time

The conference organizing committee is considering a teleconferencing presentation session. Hence, scholars with difficulties in travelling to the conference are encouraged to submit an abstract.