32.806, Summer Schools: Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) / Netherlands

Thu Mar 4 16:48:39 UTC 2021

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Subject: 32.806, Summer Schools:  Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) / Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:48:28
From: Zsofia Belteki [z.a.belteki at uu.nl]
Subject: Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) / Netherlands

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR)

Host Institution: 
Website: https://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl

Dates: 13-Apr-2021 - 15-Apr-2021
Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Focus: Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research
Minimum Education Level: BA

Description:
The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS is pleased to announce the 17th
edition of EMLAR, which will be held virtually from April 13-15, 2021. The
workshop aims at training PhD students and advanced MA students in methods of
experimental research in first and second language acquisition. Experts in
various domains of language acquisition research will give lectures and
hands-on tutorials. We will also provide the opportunity for poster
presentation. Please specify in your registration form whether you wish to
present a poster and which tutorials you wish to follow. Depending on the
number of applications there might be a selection procedure. 

Schedule: 

Tuesday, April 13th 
9.30 – 10.00 Registration 
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome (director UiL OTS Prof. dr. René Kager) 
10.15 – 11.00 Jan Odijk – Utrecht University 
SASTA: Semi-Automatic Analysis of Spontaneous Language 
10:00-11:15 Coffee break 
11.15 – 12.00 Evelyn Bosma – Leiden University 
Cognate facilitation in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children’s sentence reading:
An eye-tracking study 
12.00 – 12.15 Coffee break 
12:15 – 13:00 Camilla Scaff – University of Zurich 
Daylong recordings in language acquisition research: challenges and
opportunities 

13:00-14:00 Lunch break 
14:00 – 16:00 Tutorial Session I 
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break 
16.15 – 16.30 Poster pitches 
One-minute poster presentations 
16.30 – 18.00 Poster session (live Q&As) and drinks 

Wednesday, April 14th 
9.30 – 11.30 Tutorial Session II 
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee break 
11.45 – 12.30 Caroline Junge & Christina Bergmann – Utrecht University & Max
Planck Institute Nijmegen 
Collaboration for robust language acquisition research: Lessons from joint
projects small and large 
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch break 
13.45 – 15.45 Tutorial Session III 
15.45 – 17.00 Break 
17.00 – 18.30 Keynote Speaker: 
Michael Frank – Stanford University 
Variability and consistency in children’s early language learning: A
data-driven approach 
19.30 Conference dinner: live from our kitchens 

Thursday, April 15th 
9.30 – 11.30 Tutorial Session IV 
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break 
11.45 – 12.30 Gabriella Vigliocco & Gwen Brekelmans – University College
London 
Creating a multimodal corpus of dyadic communication: the ECOLANG experience 

12.30 – 12.45 Closing talk 
Note: All times are in CET. 

Tutorials: 
Automatic Speech Recognition: Arjan van Hessen 
Bayesian Statistics: Shravan Vasishth 
CHILDES: Jacqueline van Kampen 
Day-long speech recordings: Camilla Scaff 
ERP: Hanneke Loerts 
Ethics and Privacy: Jacques Flores 
Eye-tracking: Visual World Paradigm: Pim Mak 
Modelling in Python: Raquel G. Alhama 
Multilevel Analysis: Huub van den Berg 
Online Surveys with Qualtrics: Martijn van der Klis 
PRAAT: Willemijn Heeren 
Research with Infants: Tips and Tricks: Anika van der Klis 
SPSS: TBA 
Statistics in R: Hugo Quené 
The ‘New Statistics’: Effects sizes and Meta-analytic methods: Christina
Bergmann 

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

Subject Languages: English

Registration: 04-Mar-2021 to 05-Apr-2021

Contact Person: Shalom Zuckerman
                Email: emlar2021 at uu.nl

Registration Instructions:

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