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In its November newsletter, issued today, the University of Pennsylvania Linguistic Data Consortium has announced its Spring 2012 Data Scholarship program. The data scholarship gives a student (any level) at an accredited college or university free access to an LDC corpus or LDC corpora of their choice, for a well-motivated and well-described research project. The text from the Newsletter is below. Students on this list who'd like to use some LDC data that they have not been able to pay for, or academics with students who they think might be in that situation, might be interested in this initiative. LDC data is used for variationist studies, but comparatively little compared to the other uses it gets (like multilingual or on English syntax). Given the large number of corpora they have, variationist studies of a lot of their data would be highly appropriate, and they are always represented at NWAV, for example. Full details are also available on the LDC site: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/About/scholarships.html =================================== Text of the ad: Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2012 for the Spring 2012 LDC Data Scholarship program! The LDC Data Scholarship program provides university students with access to LDC data at no-cost. This program is open to students pursuing both undergraduate and graduate studies in an accredited college or university. LDC Data Scholarships are not restricted to any particular field of study; however, students must demonstrate a well-developed research agenda and a bona fide inability to pay. The selection process is highly competitive. The application consists of two parts: (1) Data Use Proposal. Applicants must submit a proposal describing their intended use of the data. The proposal must contain the applicant's name, university, and field of study. The proposal should state which data the student plans to use and contain a description of their research project. Applicants should consult the LDC Corpus Catalog for a complete list of data distributed by LDC. Due to certain restrictions, a handful of LDC corpora are restricted to members of the Consortium. Applicants are advised to select a maximum of one to two data sets; students may apply for additional data sets during the following cycle once they have completed processing of the initial data sets and publish or present work in some juried venue. (2) Letter of Support. Applicants must submit one letter of support from their thesis adviser or department chair. The letter must confirm that the department or university lacks the funding to pay the full Non-member Fee for the data and verify the student's need for data. For further information on application materials and program rules, please visit the LDC Data Scholarship page. Students can email their applications to the LDC Data Scholarship program [through the website above]. Decisions will be sent by email from the same address. The deadline for the Spring 2012 program cycle is January 15, 2012. =================================== Damien -- Damien Hall University of Kent (UK / Royaume-Uni) Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 'Towards a New Linguistic Atlas of France' Projet de recherche: 'Vers un Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la France' English Language and Linguistics, School of European Culture and Languages Section de Langue et Linguistique Anglaises, Faculté de la Culture et des Langues Européennes ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1