ICPLA2016 in Halifax

[Brian Macwhinney]

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16th ICPLA Pre-Conference Workshops

The Organizing Committee of the 16th International Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (icpla2016.ca <http://icpla2016.ca/>) are pleased to offer two pre-conference tutorials to be held on Tuesday June 14, 2016. The aim of the tutorials is to give participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with particular methodological developments in the field and/or to gain more advanced insights.
Each tutorial will offer both introductory and more advanced sessions, to take place during the morning and afternoon, respectively.

CHILDES tutorials (Brian MacWhinney)

 Morning: Introduction to CLAN and the CHILDES database
   - Installing CLAN
   - Downloading materials from the web
   - Transcription and linkage
   - Running basic analysis program
 Afternoon: Advanced CLAN tutorial
   - Morphosyntactic analysis with MOR
   - Grammatical analysis with GRASP
   - IPSyn, DSS, VocD, and MATTR
   - Batch analysis with EVAL and KIDEVAL
   - Linkage to Phon and Praat

PhonBank tutorials (Yvan Rose)

 Morning: Introduction to Phon
   - General overview and basic workflow
   - Media linkage and segmentation
   - Orthographic and phonetic transcription
   - Basic queries and assessments
 Afternoon: Advanced Phon functions
   - TextGrid generation
   - Acoustic measurement
   - Advanced queries and assessments
   - Inter-relations between Phon and CLAN

The tutorials will be open for registration together with the registration of the conference on February 1, 2016.  Registration for individual tutorials is compulsory, and on-site registration will not be possible. The fee for attending a tutorial is $30 CAD (non-refundable) or $50 CAD, if you register for both workshops.

We are also delighted to have the following plenary speakers for the ICPLA conference in 2016:

Ellen Bialystock, PhD
Ingrid Johnsrude, PhD
Sally Rice, PhD
Janet F. Werker, PhD

For more information, contact info at icpla2016.ca <mailto:info at icpla2016.ca>.  If you would like to receive updates on the ICPLA conference or pre-conference workshops, send a message with the subject “Subscribe” to subscribe at icpla2016.ca <mailto:subscribe at icpla2016.ca>.

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