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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:54:25
From: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen [annesophie.ghyselen at ugent.be]
Subject: Taal & Tongval 2020: Perspectives for research on language variation and change

 
Taal & Tongval 2020: Perspectives for research on language variation and change 

Date: 27-Nov-2020 - 27-Nov-2020 
Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Contact: Anne-Sophie Ghyselen 
Contact Email: taalentongval2020 at ugent.be 
Meeting URL: https://www.taalentongval2020.ugent.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Increasingly, ever larger data collections become available for research into
language variation and change, both of existing and new data, structured as
well as unstructured. At the same time, surprising combinatorial possibilities
arise in the diversity of data collections.  Next to the increasing
digitization of existing data in research on language and speech, also new
types of data emerge. Digital communication for instance gives rise to new
forms of networks forming and influencing language, and in large amounts. Does
this lead to new research questions and techniques, and does it afford new
insights? Or can also the classic fundamental questions be answered in a more
directed way using larger amounts of data?

At the same time, new techniques are being developed to process and analyse
(large amounts of) language data. Recent years have seen a rapprochement
between computer science, computational linguistics, and historical variation
linguistics. Computational methods, for instance, make large amounts of
language data more easily accessible for further analysis, and facilitate the
identification of patterns of variation and change in them. Besides methods
imported from other scientific fields, this also concerns specific techniques
for the analysis of language and speech, such as Natural Language Processing
or acoustic analysis. New approaches in dialectometry with large and diverse
data collections, and research on variation based on large language corpora
and computer-mediated communication (CMC) have in recent years led to numerous
new findings. What is the current state of art, and what new insights may we
expect into the rise and spread of language variation, both looking back into
the past and forward into the future? How do we deal with variation in space
(diatopic) and time (diachronic)? How do we treat structural and semantic
(both onomasiological and semasiological) features? The availability of big
data clearly forces us to return to the basic questions of linguistic
research.

Meanwhile, different types of research have already delivered a number of
promising results. The 2020 edition of the Taal & Tongval symposium therefore
focuses on the budding perspectives that ‘big data’ affords for research on
language variation and change.
 

Program Information: 

Keynote speakers:
Jack Grieve
Miriam Bouzouita
Dirk Speelman (together with Stef Grondelaers & Robbert De Troij)

More information will be available closer to the conference date on our
website:  https://www.taalentongval2020.ugent.be/programme/





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