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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Arabic-L: Fri 19 Sep 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:11:08</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">From: Dimitrios Ntelitheos [</span><a href="mailto:dimitrios_n@uaeu.ac.ae" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">dimitrios_n@uaeu.ac.ae</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">]</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Full Title: Experimental Arabic Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Short Title: EXAL2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Date: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>06-Nov-2013 - 07-Nov-2013</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Location: Al Ain, United Arab Emirates</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Contact Person: Ali Idrissi, Dimitrios Ntelitheos</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting Email: </span><a href="mailto:exal2013.uaeu@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">exal2013.uaeu@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Web Site: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/exaluaeu2013/home" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/exaluaeu2013/home</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Language Family(ies): Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Call Deadline: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>25-Sep-2013</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Meeting Description:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Department of Linguistics at the United Arab Emirates University is organizing the first conference on Experimental Arabic Linguistics (EXAL-2013). The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars using experimental approaches to address long-standing or new theoretical issues pertaining to the study of language, focusing on Arabic. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) L1 acquisition in typically and atypically developing children</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2) Language impairment and language therapy</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3) Representations and processing in healthy and brain-damaged speakers (case studies, EEG, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">4) L2 acquisition from an experimental perspective</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">5) Representations and processing in Arabic heritage speakers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">6) Experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">7) Computational linguistics</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">8) Corpus-based linguistic studies</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Invited Speakers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Liina Pylkkänen, New York University: TBA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Michel Paradis, McGill University: 'Bilingual speakers' Implicit and explicit memory in various pathologies: implications for assessment and treatment.'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University: 'Towards normative data on phonological development in Arabic.'</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Diogo Almeida, New York University - Abu Dhabi: TBA</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For further information about the conference venue, travel and accommodation details please visit our website and the university website at </span><a href="http://www.uaeu.ac.ae/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">www.uaeu.ac.ae</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. More information about the conference will be added to the conference website as it becomes available.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2nd Call for Papers:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This is a reminder and notification of deadline extension.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations followed by a 10 minutes discussion on any of the issues listed above, or any other issue related to the broader theme of the conference. Each author may submit at most one individual and one joint paper. Abstracts including the title of the paper should not exceed one page (A4 or Letter size), with a possible second page for examples, diagrams, and references. Please, use 12 size fonts with at least 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be submitted as PDF or MS Word files at the Linguist List Easy Abs:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/exal2013" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/exal2013</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstract submission deadline: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>25 September 2013</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Notification of acceptance: Beginning of October 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conference dates: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span>6-7 November 2013</span></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We anticipate that limited travel funding will be provided to students whose abstracts have received the highest acceptance scores by the abstract reviewers. Details regarding financial support will be communicated to eligible presenters before the program is finalized.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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