The 4th International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC4) will be held from 20-22 April 2017 at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland. WSC4 is the continuation of the highly successful workshop series that have previously been held in Barcelona (2010), Kloster Seeon (2012) and Berkeley (2014). The aim of this workshop series is to bring together scholars from a wide range of theoretical and methodological backgrounds in order to foster truly collaborative and interdisciplinary work on the actuation, evaluation, transmission, and diffusion of sound change.
The theme of this workshop is “individuals, communities, and sound change”, with special attention to the role of individual differences in the initiation and propagation of change. By “individual differences”, we refer to those psychological, sociological, genetic and/or behavioural differences between the individuals who make up a speech community at the levels of production, perception and cognitive representation.
Some questions we will consider in detail at this Workshop include:
17 April 2017: A PDF programme and local guide is now available.
12 April 2017: Registration is now closed. If you are intending to attend the workshop and have not yet registered, please email us. It will not be possible to register on-site.
4 April 2017: A PDF of abstracts for accepted talks and posters is here.
8 February 2017: The preliminary programme is here. The historical Call for Papers may be found here.