27.4755, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Phonetics, Psycholing/UK

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Subject: 27.4755, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Phonetics, Psycholing/UK

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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:43:49
From: Outi Tuomainen [o.tuomainen at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan

 
Full Title: Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan 
Short Title: SPPL 2017 

Date: 26-Apr-2017 - 27-Apr-2017
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Valerie Hazan
Meeting Email: sppl2017 at pals.ucl.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.sppl2017.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Although the focus of much research into speech development has been to
establish when ‘adult-like’ performance is reached (with young adult speakers
taken as a ‘norm’), it is increasingly clear that speech perception and
production abilities are undergoing constant change across the lifespan as a
result of physical changes, exposure to language variation, and cognitive
changes at various periods of our lives. Few studies have examined changes in
speech production or perception measures across the lifespan using common
materials and experimental designs. Lifespan studies can further our
understanding of the extent and direction of these changes for key measures of
speech communication and of how these changes interact with cognitive, social
or sensory factors. Such knowledge is essential to refine and extend models of
speech perception and production.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for interactions between researchers
from areas of speech and language sciences research that may be focused on
different developmental stages, e.g. early development and ageing. It will
also discuss methodological issues, such as how to overcome the difficulty of
developing tests that are equally appropriate for children, younger and older
adults, and will consider ‘missing gaps’ in the developmental trajectory, e.g.
data for older teenagers and middle-aged adults.


2nd Call for Papers:

Abstract submission now open for the Workshop on Speech Perception and
Production across the Lifespan - SPPL 2017 (26-27 April 2017, UCL, London, UK)
 
Workshop Theme:

Although the focus of much research into speech development has been to
establish when ‘adult-like’ performance is reached (with young adult speakers
taken as a ‘norm’), it is increasingly clear that speech perception and
production abilities are undergoing constant change across the lifespan as a
result of physical changes, exposure to language variation, and cognitive
changes at various periods of our lives. The workshop will provide an
opportunity for interactions between researchers from areas of speech and
language sciences research that may be focused on different developmental
stages, e.g. early development and ageing. It will also discuss methodological
issues, such as how to overcome the difficulty of developing tests that are
equally appropriate for children, younger and older adults.

Abstract submission now open, please see:
http://sppl2017.org/abstract-submission

We expect submitted papers to report experimental and modeling studies
relating to more than one age group or longitudinal work.

We invite submissions on the following topics:

- Lifespan changes in acoustic-phonetic and articulatory measures of speech
production
- Lifespan changes in speech perception abilities
- Individual differences
- Impact of changes in auditory, cognitive and/or attentional skills on speech
communication across different age groups
- Impact of sociophonetic factors on speech communication across different age
groups
- Impact of learning/training across different age groups
- Speech communication in adverse conditions across different age groups
- Research on speech and communication development in atypical populations
across different age groups
- Discourse: structure, repair strategies, dysfluencies
- Methodological issues in lifespan studies of speech communication
(experimental design, software, materials)




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