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From: Lise Menn [lise.menn at colorado.edu]
Subject: American Association for the Advancement of Science 

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American Association for the Advancement of Science 
Short Title: AAAS 

Date: 18-Feb-2010 - 22-Feb-2010 
Location: San Diego, CA, USA 
Contact: Lise Menn 
Contact Email: lise.menn at colorado.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

AAAS is the largest general meeting of the sciences, devoted to presenting research to the general public and to other scientists across discipline boundaries. It is the largest general forum for linguists, and this year three major symposia are sponsored or co-sponsored by Section Z: Linguistics and Language Sciences. On 2/19, Language Processing for Science and Society; on 2/20, Music-Language Interactions in the Brain; on 2/21, Language Learning in Deaf Children: Integrating Research on Speech, Gesture, and Sign.  Come and be part of the public face of linguistics, and learn about related research areas! 

Language Processing for Science and Society
Friday 2/19, 3:30-5:00
Organizer: Annie Zaenen
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1689.html

Spoken language was the first and remains the most pervasive communication and information technology. The invention of writing has quite some time ago extended our ability to communicate to those distant from us in time and space. The recent arrival of computers now provides us with new ways to access and share information encoded in speech or written language. The result is that we are confronted daily with more information than we can focus on or assimilate. Keyword search has provided a simple and surprisingly successful way to access this fire hose of information, but it is a blunt instrument. Currently, researchers are developing algorithms that enable computers to home in better on the information that users really want to find. To illustrate these recent developments, we discuss three aspects. The first contribution concentrates on developments that have a broad application to society as a whole. The two others focus on developments that at least for the moment are more relevant to the scientific community, namely, how language technology can extract information from scientific literature and how computers can be made not only to read texts but also reason about them.

Speakers:
Patti Price, PPRICE Speech and Language Technology Consulting 
The Growing Impact of Speech Technology on Society

Edward Briscoe, University of Cambridge 
Making the World's Scienti?c Information (More) Organized, Accessible, and Usable

Christopher Manning, Stanford University 
Getting Computers to Understand What They Read

Music-Language Interactions in the Brain: From the Brainstem to Broca's Area
Saturday 2/20, 3:30-5:00
organizer: Aniruddh D. Patel

The past decade has seen an explosion of research on music and the brain. It is clear that music engages much of the brain and coordinates a wide range of cognitive processes. This naturally raises the question of how music cognition relates to other complex cognitive abilities. Language is an obvious candidate, since (like music) it relies on interpreting complex acoustic sequences that unfold in time. Whether music and language cognition share basic brain mechanisms has only recently begun to be studied empirically. An exciting picture is emerging. There are more connections between the domains than might be expected on the basis of dominant theories of musical and linguistic cognition. Furthermore, these connections have real-world implications for the study and treatment of disorders of speech and language. This symposium explores music-language relations from three different perspectives that combine behavioral and brain imaging methods: how speech is encoded by brainstem auditory structures; how "melodic intonation therapy" helps patients with non-fluent aphasia recover some of their spoken language fluency; and syntactic processing.

Speakers:
Nina Kraus, Northwestern University 
Cognitive-Sensory Interaction in the Neural Encoding of Music and Speech

Gottfried Schlaug, Harvard Medical School 
Singing to Speaking: Observations in Healthy Singers and Patients with Broca's Aphasia

Aniruddh D. Patel, Neurosciences Institute 
Music, Language, and Grammatical Processing


Language Learning in Deaf Children: Integrating Research on Speech, Gesture, and Sign 
Sunday 2/21, 3:30-5:00
Organizer, Jenny Saffran; discussant, Rachel Mayberry
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1348.html
	
How do infants who cannot hear learn language? The two dominant approaches to this problem are typically considered in isolation. On the one hand, infants exposed to signed languages such as American Sign Language readily learn a native sign language via the visual modality. On the other hand, infants exposed to spoken languages such as English are often provided with devices such as cochlear implants, which facilitate the acquisition of a native spoken language. However, there has been remarkably little cross-talk between investigators focused on these two different modes of language learning. This symposium considers the nature of the language input to deaf infants and young children from both the visual and auditory perspective. Based on results from studies of deaf infants with cochlear implants, how do these infants learn new spoken words and recognize familiar spoken words, given the degraded acoustic signal provided by cochlear implant devices? The types of visual input provided to deaf infants in the form of gesture across cultures also will be considered along with the implications of early spoken and signed language input for later language acquisition. By bringing together new research findings on the nature of the input to language learning in deaf infants and young children, this symposium will suggest important dimensions of experience that lead to successful language outcomes.

Speakers:
Derek Houston, Indiana University School of Medicine 
Word Learning in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants

Tina Grieco-Calub, Northern Illinois University 
Processing of Spoken Words by 2-Year-Old Children Who Use Cochlear Implants

Marie Coppola, University of Chicago 
Multi-Modal Input to Language Learning: Gesture and Speech to Children Across
Cultures

Linguistics and Language Science Section Business Meeting
Friday, February 19, 2010: 7:45 PM-10:00 PM
Warner Center (San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina)
Organizer: Lise Menn, U. of Colorado, Secretary, Section Z

For other symposia of interest, go to
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Symposium7.html
Cognitive Function and Development





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