24.4154, Calls: Writing Systems, Lexicography, Applied Ling, Computational Ling, General Ling/UK

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Subject: 24.4154, Calls: Writing Systems, Lexicography, Applied Ling, Computational Ling, General Ling/UK

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:12:22
From: Lynne Cahill [lynneca at sussex.ac.uk]
Subject: 9th Workshop on Written Language and Literacy

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Full Title: 9th Workshop on Written Language and Literacy 
Short Title: AWLL9 

Date: 04-Sep-2014 - 05-Sep-2014
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lynne Cahill
Meeting Email: awll9 at sussex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/newsandevents/orthographic 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Lexicography; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 11-Apr-2014 

Meeting Description:

This workshop is the ninth in a series of international meetings devoted to
the issue of writing systems. The writing systems workshops have offered a
forum for discussion between researchers from a range of different countries
and linguistic backgrounds, working in a variety of fields of writing research
such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics
and language education.

Call for Papers:

The focus of this 9th workshop is the use of databases and lexicons. Especially welcome are contributions on the following questions: 

- What kind of orthographic information is available in databases?
- In what ways can mono- and crosslingual information be incorporated?
- To what extent can rule-based information be employed in lexicons and/or databases?
- How can the relationship between orthography and phonology be represented in databases/lexicons?
- What practical purposes (e.g. computational, pedagogic, lexicographic) can be served by databases/lexicons?

Submission Guidelines: 

Authors should submit abstracts of no more than 300 words (Font: Times New Roman 12, line spacing: 1.5). Speakers will have 30 minutes for their presentation, and 15 minutes for discussion and questions. Please submit abstracts electronically (rtf, pdf, doc, docx).

Important Dates:

First call for proposals: October 2013
Second call for proposals: January 2014
Submission deadline: April 11, 2014
Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2014
Workshop: September 4-5, 2014

Program Committee:

Lynne Cahill (School of English, University of Sussex)
Anneke Neijt (Dutch Department, University of Nijmegen)
Beatrice Primus (German Department, University of Cologne)
Terry Joyce (Tama University, Tokyo)

Contact: awll9 at sussex.ac.uk

Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/newsandevents/orthographic

Association website: http://faculty.tama.ac.jp/joyce/awll/index.html

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