27.3426, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Belgium

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Subject: 27.3426, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:46:07
From: Liesbeth Degand [liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties

Full Title: Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties 
Short Title: (DIS)Fluency 2017 

Date: 15-Feb-2017 - 17-Feb-2017
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
Contact Person: Liesbeth Degand
Meeting Email: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be
Web Site: http://www.uclouvain.be/disfluency2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

Fluency and disfluency have attracted a great deal of attention in different
areas of linguistics such as language acquisition or psycholinguistics. They
have been investigated through a wide range of methodological and theoretical
frameworks, including corpus linguistics, experimental pragmatics, perception
studies and natural language processing, with applications in the domains of
language learning, teaching and testing, human/machine communication and
business communication.

Spoken and signed languages are produced and comprehended online, with
typically very little time to plan ahead. As a result, they are often
characterized by features such as (filled and unfilled) pauses, discourse
markers, repeats and self-repairs, which can be said to reflect on-going
mechanisms of processing and monitoring. The role of these items is
ambivalent, as they can both be a symptom of encoding difficulties and a sign
that the speaker is trying to help the hearer decode the message. They should
thus be interpreted in context to identify their contribution to fluency
and/or disfluency, which can be viewed as two faces of the same phenomenon.

Within the frame of a research project entitled “Fluency and disfluency
markers. A multimodal contrastive perspective” (see
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-415256.html), the universities of Louvain and Namur
have been involved in a large-scale usage-based study of (dis)fluency markers
in spoken French, L1 and L2 English, and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB),
with a focus on variation according to language, speaker and genre. To close
this five-year research project, an international conference will be organized
in Louvain-la-Neuve on the subject of fluency and disfluency across languages
and language varieties. 

Keynote Speakers:

Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh
Sandra Götz, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Helena Moniz, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering: Research and
Development, Lisbon
David Quinto-Pozos, The University of Texas at Austin

Scientific Committee:

Nicolas Ballier (Université Paris Diderot)
Roxane Bertrand (Université Aix-Marseille)
Philippe Blache (Université Aix-Marseille)
Catherine Bolly (Universität zu Köln)
Hans Rutger Bosker (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Maria Candéa (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris)
Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain)
Nivja de Jong (Utrecht University)
Robert Eklund (Linköping University)
Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark)
Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain)
Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya (University of Michigan, USA)
Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot)
Pascale Goutéraux (Université Paris Diderot)
Heather Hilton (Université de Lyon 2)
Judit Kormos (University of Lancaster)
Anne Lacheret (Université Paris Ouest)
Bertille Pallaud (Université Aix-Marseille)
Laurent Prévot (Université Aix-Marseille)
Helmer Strik (Radboud Universiteit)
Parvaneh Tavakoli (University of Reading, UK)
Gunnel Tottie (University of Zurich)
Mieke Van Herreweghe (Universiteit Gent)
Ioana Vasilescu (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris)
Myriam Vermeerbergen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

2nd Call for Papers

The conference aims at bringing together scholars and researchers from
different disciplines in order to discuss and confront different conceptions
and perspectives on fluency and disfluency, in both spoken and sign languages.
We particularly welcome abstracts for oral or poster presentations on the
following topics:

- Theoretical insights gained from the study of fluency and disfluency
- Methodological issues raised by the investigation of (dis)fluency markers
- Acquisitional perspectives on (dis)fluency and pedagogical implications
- Contrastive analyses of (dis)fluency markers
- Variationist approaches to fluency and disfluency
- (Dis)fluency in the Sign Language of native, near-native and late signers
- Applications of fluency research (NLP, testing, etc.)

Abstracts (1000 words, excluding references) should be submitted via Easy
chair at the following address:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disfluency2017

Important Dates:

- Deadline submission of abstracts: 15 September 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2016
- Early-bird registration: 30 November 2016
- Deadline registration: 15 January 2017

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