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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We would like to direct your attention to the joint conference ICPEAL 17 — CLDC 9</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(the
 17th Conference on the Processing of East Asian Languages and the 9th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition), which will</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> be held at National Taiwan University, 19-21 October 2018.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We sincerely invite you to submit an abstract and attend the meeting. </span></p>
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<b style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">The deadline for submission has been extended until 10 March 2018.</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">More detailed information can be found on the conference website (see link below).</span><br>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Anne Cutler (Western Sydney University, Australia)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Raymond Gibbs (University of California at Santa Cruz, United States)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo, Japan)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Colin Phillips (University of Maryland, United States)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Li Sheng (University of Delaware, United States)</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The main theme of this edition is BETWEEN CULTURE AND COGNITION, <span style="font-size:12pt">referring to the place </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; font-size:12pt">language
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<span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/icpeal2018cldc/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk227149" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" previewremoved="true"></a></span></p>
DISCIPLINES AND DOMAINS RELATED TO THE CONFERENCE:
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<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Character and word processing</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sentence and discourse processing</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Concept / knowledge representation and storage</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Speech perception, prosody and auditory processing</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language production</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language acquisition, development, and learning</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bilingualism</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language computational modeling</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language-related cognitive and emotional processing</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Developmental and acquired language disorders</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cognitive pragmatics and culture</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Discourse analysis</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language and culture</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Language and cognition</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cognitive Linguistics</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Metaphor and metonymy</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Iconicity</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Linguistic typology and culture</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Linguistic typology and cognition</div>
<div>•<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Corpus linguistics</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For more information about the conference and the submission format, please take a look at the conference website:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <a href="mailto:icpeal2018cldc@gmail.com" target="_blank" id="LPlnk489868" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" previewremoved="true">icpeal2018cldc@gmail.com</a>  .</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Looking forward to your submissions,</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Tai-Li Chou</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Dr. Janice Fon</span></p>
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