<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF3771" face="Times" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><img alt="Pasted Graphic 1.tiff" id="dd8c03fa-59f8-40eb-a3f5-5f8340bb026c" height="148" width="151" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:47F975E1-7CF5-4A66-9BE3-C0EF695C640C"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 27px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; ">****JéTou 2011****</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 23px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">**</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Comparative Methods and Analysis in the Language Sciences</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 23px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">**</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 23px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 23px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Notification : </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px; ">Deadline for submissions has been extended to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 27px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 27px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000" style="font-size: 28px; "><b>October 29th, 2010</b></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 22px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(255, 55, 113); min-height: 26px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">April 7th-8th 2011 - Toulouse, France</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Deadline for submissions </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">: October 29th, 2010</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(100, 149, 199); min-height: 21px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><i></i></span><br></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The doctoral students and young researchers of the language science laboratories in Toulouse, France:</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>CLLE-ERSS</b> (Équipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique)</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>Laboratoire Octogone-Lordat</b> (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Langage et de la Cognition)</span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">as well as the computer science laboratory :</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><ul style="list-style-type: disc; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>IRIT </b>(Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse)</span></li></ul></ul><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">are organizing the third edition of <b>JéTou</b>, a conference aimed at doctoral students and young researchers (who have defended their dissertation within the past three years) in the language sciences.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The conference will focus on <i>comparative methods and analysis in the language sciences</i>.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The need to explore comparative methods is characteristic of the social sciences. Even more so than researchers in the “hard” sciences, researchers in the social sciences are often confronted with certain limitations<i> </i>with respect to their object of study, and therefore must expand their research beyond their own points of reference.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">When approaching the topic of comparative methods and analysis in linguistics, one might first consider <b>cross-linguistic comparison</b>, which has given rise to several diverse areas of research, such as comparative linguistics, contrastive linguistics, and linguistic typology. Cross-linguistic comparison has informed certain principles that would not have been brought to light without looking to other languages. This is the case at all levels of linguistic description (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics).</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">However, comparative or contrastive approaches also come into play in several other fields of study in the language sciences:</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">While comparative studies between <b>pathological subjects</b> (aphasia, dyslexia, degenerative diseases, etc.) and <b>non-pathological</b> <b>subjects</b> are useful for clinical aims and objectives (diagnosis, description, and treatment of language pathologies), they also provide us with a better understanding of the cognitive aspects related to the development and use of language by healthy subjects.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Comparing speakers with respect to their <b>first language</b>, their social identity, or even the way that they speak one or several language(s), allows us to determine universals in the <b>acquisition of language</b>, and inversely, to identify determining factors in <b>attrition phenomena</b>.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Studies in <b>language pedagogy</b> have relied on contrastive analysis (between one’s first language and a second language) since the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century. This is due to the fact that learning a first language involves the development of strategies and specific language patterns. Also, such studies allow us to observe certain language traits, positive or negative, that “cross over” from the first language into the second language. The question of multilingualism and plurilinguistic learning also falls into this set of issues.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The notion of <b>norm</b> is ubiquitous in the language sciences, as language is governed by normalisation rules. However, these rules, whether implicit or not, do not impede the creativity of speakers. The multitude of different <b>usages</b> that have been brought to light by using comparative approaches is the proof of this individuality.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">In <b>natural language processing</b>, comparative approaches can be used in different areas of research: comparison of annotations to assess the difficulty of a task, comparison of reference annotation during evaluation, etc. Some applications, such as the detection of plagiarism, are directly based on the notion of comparison.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>Corpus linguistics</b> offers the necessary tools for wide-scale comparison between different corpora (aligned corpora of different languages, reference corpora vs. specialized corpora, etc.)</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 35px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Comparison can also be used as an analytical tool at different levels of linguistic description, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The purpose of JéTou 2011 is to bring together young researchers working in different disciplines within the language sciences around the common theme of comparative approaches. This topic, inherently cross-disciplinary, invites reflection on the question of method, which, while central to all research, is often neglected in scientific proceedings.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Possible contributions could focus on issues related to the following fields:</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>descriptive linguistics</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>sociolinguistics</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>psycholinguistics</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>neurolinguistics</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>terminology</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>language acquisition and pedagogy</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>translation</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>corpus linguistics</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>natural language processing</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>**Types of presentations**</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Two types of submissions will be accepted: long articles (8 to 10 pages) and short articles (4 to 5 pages). Long articles will be presented as oral presentations or as posters, while short articles will be presented as posters. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The proceedings of the conference will be published in book form and will also be available on the conference website.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>**Criteria for selection**</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Each submission will be evaluated by at least two specialists in the chosen field of study. Submissions will be considered based on the following criteria:</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The importance and originality of the contribution</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The accuracy of the scientific and technical content</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The critical discussion of results, particularly with respect to other work in the field</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The organisation and clarity of the writing</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Conformity to the theme of the conference </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><b>**Submission Guidelines**</b></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Articles must be written in French or in English.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for a long article or 5 pages for a short article (including figures and examples, but not references). The text must be written in Times 12, single spaced, in A4 format. LaTeX and Word style sheets are available on the conference website.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">The deadline for submissions is </span><span><b>October 15<sup>th</sup>, 2010</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; ">. Submissions must be made using the <i>Easychair</i> conference management system. Further information regarding the submission process can be found on the JéTou 2011 website: </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><a href="http://jetou2011.free.fr/">http://jetou2011.free.fr</a></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "></span><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.8px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br></span></span></div></body></html>