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    Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Linguistic Relationships
   University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, April 17-18, 1995

   The full version of this announcement is available at URL:
   http://www.cs.utwente.nl/data/amast/links/v02/i04/full/AC0204MJ.txt

  Workshop organized by Tandy Warnow (Computer and Information Science,
U. of Pennsylvania) and Don Ringe (Linguistics, U. of Pennsylvania).
  *Tentative schedule* (including time for discussion after each talk):
  *Monday, April 17*
8.30-9.00 : Coffee
9.00-9.30 : Introductory remarks
9.30-12.00 : A character-based method for inferring evolutionary trees.
    Three interrelated presentations.
     o  _Historical and methodological overview of the problem_,
        Don Ringe, U. of Pennsylvania
     o  _Computational aspects_, Tandy Warnow, U. of Pennsylvania
     o  _Indo-European_, Ann Taylor, U. of Pennsylvania
12.00-1.30 : Lunch
1.30-3.00 : _Shaped by some common contingency.  historically but not_
    _genetically related_, Johanna Nichols, U. California at Berkeley
3.00-3.30 : Coffee
3.30-5.00 : _Mathematical methods in dialectology_, Sheila Embleton,
    York U.
  *Tuesday, April 18*
8.30-9.00 : Coffee
9.00-10.30 : _Modelling the time course of language change_,
    Anthony Kroch, U. of Pennsylvania
10.30-12.00 : title to be announced, William Labov, U. of Pennsylvania
12.00-1.30 : Lunch
1.30-3.00 : _The mathematics of n-way comparison_, Bill Poser,
    U. of Northern British Columbia
3.00-5.00 : General discussion
  All sessions will be held in the large conference room at Institute
for Research in Cognitive Science, 3401 Walnut St., West Entrance, 4th
Floor. The public is invited to attend. Information about accomodations
is available in the full version of this announcement.