31.3756, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing/Online

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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:22:06
From: Ji Young Shim [jshim at aus.edu]
Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference 2021

 
Full Title: Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference 2021 
Short Title: EXAL 2021 

Date: 04-Apr-2021 - 06-Apr-2021
Location: Sharjah (Online), United Arab Emirates 
Contact Person: Ji Young Shim
Meeting Email: exal2021.aus at gmail.com
Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/EXAL2021 

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

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Department of English and the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies
at American University of Sharjah (AUS) will co-host the fourth meeting of the
Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference (EXAL) on 4-6 April in 2021, which
will be held online. The aim of EXAL 2021 is to bring various groups of people
together who employ experimental methods to study the Arabic language and
exchange innovative ideas and approaches to Arabic linguistics. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to: 

 - L1/L2 acquisition
 - Bilingualism, multilingualism, and code-switching
 - Arabic in multilingual contexts and heritage language acquisition
 - Language pathology, language impairment, and sign language
 - Corpus linguistics
 - Computational linguistics and NLP
 - Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistics studies

There will be two sessions at EXAL 2021. The regular sessions will be held
during the first two days (4-5 April, 2021) and the last day of the conference
(6 April, 2021) will host a special theme session on Emirati and Gulf Arabic.
And the list of the invited speakers for EXAL 2021 is the following. 

For the regular sessions (4-5 April, 2021)
 - Abdulkafi Albirini (Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication
Studies, Utah State University)
 - Eric Atwell (Artificial Intelligence for Language, Leeds University)
 - Khaled Elghamry (Department of English Language and Literature, Ain Shams
University)
 - Ali Idrissi (Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar
University) and John Drury (School of Linguistic Sciences & Arts, Jiangsu
Normal University)
 - Reem Khamis-Dakwar (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Adelphi University)

For the special theme session (6 April, 2021)
 - Tommi Leung and Dimitrios Ntelitheos (Department of Cognitive Sciences,
United Arab Emirates University)
 - David Wilsem (Department of Arabic and Translation Studies, American
University of Sharjah)


Call for Papers: 

We invite abstract submissions for (a) long presentations (25-minute oral
presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion and (b) short presentations
(10 minutes and 5 minutes of discussion) for the regular sessions, and also
(c) short presentations (10 minutes and 5 minutes of discussion) for the
special theme session. All submissions should report original and previously
unpublished research. 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,
figures, 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 http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/EXAL2021. Abstracts can
be submitted until 10-Jan-2021.




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