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Subject: 31.150, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling / Belgium

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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 15:26:44
From: Cristóbal Lozano [cristoballozano at ugr.es]
Subject: The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution

Full Title: The Acquisition and Processing of Reference and Anaphora Resolution 
Short Title: APRAR 

Date: 05-May-2020 - 06-May-2020
Location: Palace of the Academies (Brussels), Belgium 
Contact Person: An Vande Casteele
Meeting Email: An.Vande.Casteele at vub.be
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/aprar2020/homepage 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The international conference on “The Acquisition and Processing of Reference
and Anaphora Resolution” (APRAR) is a joint initiative of the Department of
Linguistics and Literary Studies (Centre for Linguistics CLIN) at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and the Department of English and German
Philology at the Universidad de Granada (Spain). The theme of the conference
ties in with the research topic of the ANACOR project (ANACOR: A corpus-based
approach to anaphora resolution in second language acquisition: beyond the
interfaces), a research project based at the Universidad de Granada.

The conference will take place at the Palace of the Academies (Brussels,
Belgium) on 5-6 May 2020. 

Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/aprar2020/homepage

Plenary Speakers:
- Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)
- Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
- Jacopo Torregrossa (Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main)

Theme of the Conference:
Referring to entities is a fundamental aspect of languages. It allows to refer
to things and people in the world. Speakers can opt for different referential
expressions (e.g. overt and null pronouns, noun phrases, proper names, etc.)
to indicate a particular entity in discourse and listeners have to be able to
select the correct referent according to the speaker’s intention. This is
often known as anaphora resolution. When acquiring, processing and resolving
reference, several factors are involved, such as information status
(topic/focus), the syntactic position of the antecedent, the accessibility of
the referent, the number of potential or competing antecedents, the distance
between the referential expression and its antecedent, etc.

Objectives:
The aim of this conference is to address reference and anaphora resolution.
The following topics will be discussed:
- The processing and acquisition of reference/anaphora resolution in different
populations (native speakers, L2 learners, bilinguals, children, heritage
speakers, attriters, etc.).
- The multiple factors that constrain reference/anaphora resolution
(morphosyntactic, semantic, discursive and cognitive factors).
- Reference/anaphora resolution across typologically similar/different
languages.
- Methodological approaches to reference/anaphora resolution (corpus,
experimental, etc).
- Theoretical models that account for reference/anaphora resolution.
- Any combination of the above topics.

PhD Workshops:
The conference will also host two hands-on workshops on methodological
approaches to reference/anaphora resolution:

- Workshop 1 (corpus methods): Annotating and analysing anaphora resolution
with UAM Corpus Tool software (Nobuo Ignacio López-Sako & Ana Díaz-Negrillo,
Universidad de Granada).
- Workshop 2 (experimental methods): Designing a psycholinguistic experiment
on anaphora resolution in the Open Sesame software (Cristóbal Lozano,
Universidad de Granada).

These workshops are intended for PhD students but are also open to all types
of researchers.

Scientific Committee:
An Vande Casteele – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cristóbal Lozano – Universidad de Granada
Renata Enghels – Universiteit Gent
Stefanie Keulen – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marcus Callies – Universität Bremen
Alex Housen – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ana Díaz-Negrillo – Universidad de Granada
Pedro Guijarro Fuentes – Universitat de les Illes Balears
Nobuo Ignacio López-Sako – Universidad de Granada 
Amaya Mendikoetxea – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Despina Papadopoulou – University of Thessaloniki
Jacopo Torregrossa – Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main

Call for Papers:

We invite the submission of abstracts for full papers. Abstracts for an oral
presentation (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion time) must not exceed 500
words, including references, and should mention the main research question(s),
methodology, data and (expected) results. Abstracts will be reviewed
anonymously. Please submit your abstract via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aprar2020. 

Important Dates: 
- 15/02/2020: Abstract submission deadline
- 15/03/2020: Notification to authors
- 15/03/2020: Registration opens
- 30/03/2020: Early bird registration closes
- 01/04/2020: Final program publication
- 15/04/2020: Late bird registration closes
- 05-06/05/2020: Conference

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