This is the cat, that caught the rat…

 Third Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE3) is to be held at the University of Lisbon in September. TIE3 is the second event of the International Project Forms and Functions of Prosodic Structure. The deadline for abstract submissions is April, 1. The call (and other information) can be found at http://www.fl.ul.pt/LaboratorioFonetica/TIE3/index.htm .

…for the workshop on information structure at UCL:

We would like to invite scholars working on information structure to
submit their work to the following workshop.

Title:Workshop on Interface-based Approaches to Information Structure
Date:13 – 15 September 2008
Location: University College London, UK
Invited Speakers:
- Daniel Büring
- Gisbert Fanselow
- Edwin Williams

Submission deadline EXTENDED until 12 March 2008

Selected talks will be allocated 30 minutes plus each talk will be
accompanied by a 15 minute commentary. Presented papers will be
eligible for publication as a per-reviewed book chapter. For further
information on the workshop please refer to our website
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/is/

Conference on Tone and Intonation in Lisboa, September 15-17 2008.

Deadline: April 1 2008

Call for Papers

Speech Prosody, to be held in Campinas, Brazil, May 6-8 2008. Deadline is November 2nd.

Two interesting upcoming conferences: Conference on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure at Indiana University and the conference on processing head-final structures at RIT.

Here’s where information about research on prosody at Cornell Linguistics and elsewhere will be posted…