29.1425, Calls: Arabic, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lexicography, Psycholing/UAE

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1425. Mon Apr 02 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1425, Calls: Arabic, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Lexicography, Psycholing/UAE

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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:01:38
From: Dimitrios Ntelitheos [Dimitrios_N at uaeu.ac.ae]
Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics 2018

 
Full Title: Experimental Arabic Linguistics 2018 
Short Title: EXAL18 

Date: 28-Oct-2018 - 29-Oct-2018
Location: Al Ain, United Arab Emirates 
Contact Person: Dimitrios Ntelitheos
Meeting Email: exal18uaeu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/exal18 

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

Language Family(ies): Arabic 

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the United Arab Emirates University is
hosting the third meeting of the Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference
(EXAL) in Al Ain, UAE, on 28-29 October, 2018. As in the past meetings (held
in UAEU in 2013 and NYU Abu Dhabi in 2016 (EXAL+)), the aim of the conference
is to bring together scholars using experimental approaches to address
long-standing or new theoretical issues pertaining to the study of language,
focusing on Arabic and related (e.g. Semitic and Afro-Asiatic) languages.
Areas of interest include:

First/Second Language Acquisition
Language Impairment and Speech Therapy
Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics
Experimental Phonetics/Phonology
Experimental Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Modern Lexicography
Any other area studying Arabic and related languages using experimental
methodology

Invited Speakers:

Manuel Carreiras (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language)
Kevin Paterson (Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour,
University of Leicester)
Manuel Perea (Departamento de Metodología, Facultad de Psicología, Universitat
de València)
Phaedra Royle (School of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of
Montreal)


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations followed by a
10 minutes discussion on any of the issues listed above. Each author may
submit at most one individual and one joint paper. Abstracts including the
title and 1-2 keywords should not exceed one page (A4 or Letter size), with a
possible second page for examples, diagrams, and references. Please use 12
size fonts with at least 2.5 cm or 1-inch margins. Abstracts should be
anonymous and should be submitted as PDF or Word Documents to EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exal18

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 June 2018 (Sunday), 23:30 (GMT)
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2018
Conference Dates: 28-29 October 2018

Organizing Committee:

Meera Al Kaabi
Sami Boudelaa
Tommi Leung
Dimitrios Ntelitheos




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