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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>The National Research School in Linguistics and Philology invite you to participate in their first summer school in linguistic theory and methods. The Summer School will take place in the magnificent surroundings
of Svolvær in Lofoten in the North of Norway, between 12th and 17th of August (week 33).<br>
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</b>The PhD school aims to give national and international ph.d. candidates the skills and competence needed for advanced research in linguistics and language studies. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on work this summer school will provide competence
in adequate research design, including data collection, corpus building, qualitative and quantitative methods, statistics, research ethics and other relevant topics.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>Application deadline: May 31st<br>
</b>(There must be a minimum of 10 participants in order for the conference to take place, so please do not book flight tickets before you have received a confirmation for attending the conference) </div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">For further details on the Summer school and how to sign up, see the Summer School webpage: <a href="http://www.nhh.no/Default.aspx?ID=45900"><font color="blue"><u>http://www.nhh.no/Default.aspx?ID=45900</u></font></a></div>
<div><b>Speakers and themes</b></div>
<div>Peter Culicover - Professor of Linguistics, Ohio State University.</div>
<div>Contemporary Grammatical Theories </div>
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<div>Michael Oakes - Senior Lecturer in Computing, University of Sunderland, UK and Senior Researcher, Uni Digital, Bergen, Norway</div>
<div>Some popular statistical tests used by linguists</div>
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<div>Svenja Adolphs - Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK</div>
<div>Data collection and corpus development</div>
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<div>Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen - Professor of French Language and Linguistics, University of Manchester, UK</div>
<div>Qualitative approaches to spoken data</div>
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<div>Koenraad De Smedt - Professor of linguistics, University of Bergen, Norway</div>
<div>Practical tools for handling language research data and writing</div>
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<div>Professor Kristian Emil Kristoffersen - University of Oslo, Professor Gisle Andersen, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Associate Professor Victoria Rosén , University of Bergen.</div>
<div>Group work in project design</div>
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<div>Poster-presentation by the candidates</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">The Summer School is organized by NHH Norwegian School of Economics, University of Bergen and University of Oslo
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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Credits awarded: 5 ECTS </div>
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