31.2777, Confs: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Phonology/France and Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-2777. Fri Sep 11 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.2777, Confs: Cog Sci, Neuroling, Phonology/France and Online

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:27:26
From: Tobias Scheer [scheer at unice.fr]
Subject: PhonolEEGy. Electrophysiology and Phonological Theory

 
PhonolEEGy. Electrophysiology and Phonological Theory 
Short Title: PhonolEEGy 

Date: 21-Apr-2020 - 22-Apr-2020 
Location: Nice, France 
Contact: Tobias Scheer 
Contact Email: PhonolEEGy at univ-cotedazur.fr 
Meeting URL: http://univ-cotedazur.fr/fr/idex/academies/human-societies-ideas-and-environments/contents/news/workshop-phonoleegy#.XPpi2I86-01 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Phonology 

Meeting Description: 

Université Côte d'Azur will host a two-day conference whose goal is to promote
exchange between electrophysiological research and phonological theory. The
conference will include keynote talks, research presentations, and round table
discussions.

With the development of affordable, easy to use systems to conduct
electroencephalographical research, many studies reference ‘phonology’ in some
way. However, the amount of EEG research that explicitly addresses
phonological theory is relatively limited. This workshop aims to bring
together experts in the field of EEG research and phonology to discuss
electrophysiological evidence as it informs phonological theory, to share the
state-of-the-art and identify the primary challenges to the field moving
forward from both methodological and theoretical perspectives.

A considerable amount of EEG research pertaining to phonological theory has
focused on speech perception. Outcomes of these lines of research include
evidence for sub-segmental units of representation (Monahan, Lau & Idsardi
2013), underspecified representations (Lahiri & Reetz 2010), underlying
representations transformed by assimilation processes (Sun et al. 2015), and
abstract phonotactic constraints (Steinberg, Truckenbrodt & Jacobsen 2010).
The EEG literature on phonology in speech production has mostly been focused
on the encoding of single words in picture-naming and word-reading tasks, with
attention to both segmental and suprasegmental properties (Schiller, Bles &
Jansma 2003). Several recent and ongoing projects use neurophysiological
methods to investigate phonological and morpho-phonological processes
(MORPHON, A. Lahiri; From Mind to Brain, T. Scheer). Beyond ERP methodology,
recent work on entrainment of neural oscillations in M/EEG is shedding new
light on the basic neural mechanisms of language processing (Ding et al.
2017).

We envision a two day meeting where stabilized or fresh-from-the-lab results
are presented, also with room for discussing methodology, experiment design
and emerging projects. Contributors are invited to present not only their data
and interpretation, but also the bigger picture of how they view phonology in
a linguistic context and the role of neurophysiological evidence in phonology.
The overall idea is to create a venue for the exchange of ideas about how
fruitful interaction of electrophysiology and phonological theory can be
promoted.

Invited Speakers:
Sharon Peperkamp (ENS Paris)
Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)
Mathias Scharinger (Marburg)
Richard Wiese (Marburg)
Bill Idsardi (Maryland)

Local org team: Mirjam de Jonge, Tobias Scheer, Alex Chabot, Jonathan Bucci.
 

Program Information: 

The conference was originally planned to be held in April, but was postponed
due to Corona.
Still due to Corona, it will be an almost fully virtual event.

The programme is now available on the website:
http://web.univ-cotedazur.fr/events/phonoleegy

Instructions how to attend at a distance will be posted on the website.

Registration (for physical attendance in Nice only) is free but mandatory
before September 15 (see the Registration tab of the website), but of course
you can also leave your name to say you will be following from a remote
location.

Local org team: Mirjam de Jonge, Tobias Scheer, Alex Chabot, Jonathan Bucci,
Diana Passino.





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