27.2606, Calls: Computational Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Australia

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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:33:30
From: Beth Hume [beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz]
Subject: The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Sound Patterns

 
Full Title: The Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Language Sound Patterns 

Date: 10-Dec-2016 - 11-Dec-2016
Location: Sydney, Australia 
Contact Person: Beth Hume
Meeting Email: beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz
Web Site: http://sst2016.westernsydney.edu.au/index.php/predictability-symposium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

A growing body of research in phonetics, phonology, and psycholinguistics
suggests that human language sound patterns are influenced by the
predictability of the higher level linguistic units they signify, e.g. words.
The relevant context for computing predictability arguably takes into account
all levels of linguistic representation in which the sound pattern is
embedded. Relevant patterns have been observed at both the level of individual
languages as well as cross-linguistically regarding, for example, preferred
contexts and likely outcomes of a range of phonetic and phonological processes
(see, e.g., Aylett & Turk 2004; Buz et al., in press; Cohen Priva 2012, 2105;
Hall 2009; Hume & Bromberg 2005; Hume et al. 2013; Jurafsky 1996; Kleinschmidt
& Jaeger 2015; Oh et al. 2015; Piantadosi et al. 2011; Seyfarth 2014; Shaw et
al. 2014; van Son & Pols 2003; Wedel et al. 2013). In quantifying
predictability, these studies appeal to concepts and/or formal tools from
information theory. The symposium welcomes a wide range of formal approaches
to quantifying predictability and to evaluating its impact on phonetic and
phonological variation. Submissions that use experimental or corpus-based
methods are particularly welcome.

Host Institution: Western Sydney University

Speakers:

Harald Baayen, University of Tübingen
Uriel Cohen Priva, Brown University
Shigeto Kawahara, Keio University
Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester
Kathleen Currie Hall, University of British Columbia
Andy Wedel, University of Arizona
Beth Hume, University of Canterbury
Jason Shaw, Western Sydney University

In addition to talks and posters, the symposium will feature two workshops
introducing corpora and computational tools for evaluating predictability in
relation to phonological and phonetic patterns.
Workshops:

- Phonological CorpusTools (Kathleen Currie Hall)
- Alveo Virtual Laboratory for Human Communication Science (Dominique Estival
& Steve Cassidy)

Any questions about the symposium can be addressed to the organizers, Beth
Hume (beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz), Jason Shaw (J.Shaw at WesternSydney.edu.au),
and Dominique Estival (D.Estival at westernsydney.edu.au)


2nd Call for Papers:

The symposium welcomes a wide range of formal approaches to quantifying
predictability and to evaluating its impact on phonetic and phonological
variation. Submissions that use experimental or corpus-based methods are
particularly welcome. 

Submissions may take the form of four-page papers or one-page abstracts.
Four-page papers will be considered for talks and will be included in the
proceedings volume of SST-2016, held just prior to the symposium. One-page
abstracts will be considered for posters and will not be included in the
proceedings. In addition to the proceedings, we are also planning to edit a
special issue of a journal based on the theme of symposium to which presenters
of both papers and posters will be eligible to submit. 

Location: Sydney, Australia
Dates: 10-11 December, 2016
Host Institution: Western Sydney University
Deadline for submissions: 1 August, 2016.
Website: http://sst2016.westernsydney.edu.au/predictability_symposium/

Any questions about the symposium can be addressed to the organizers, Beth
Hume (beth.hume at canterbury.ac.nz) and Jason Shaw (J.Shaw at WesternSydney.edu.au)




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