Workshop on Deaf Education and Sign Linguistics

[Zwitserlood, I.E.P. (Inge)]

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1st Call for Papers


Workshop on Deaf Education and Sign Linguistics 
(http://ingezwitserlood.ruhosting.nl/conferences/DeafEducation_SignLinguistics/Workshop_on_deaf_education_and%20sign_linguistics.html)

21 – 23 September 2009
Bakuriani, Georgia

Submission deadline: 23 June 2009


This workshop is part of the Eighth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (http://www.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi2009/)

The workshop will consist of two parts: the first day (September 21) will be devoted to Deaf Education; the following two days (September 22-23) to Sign Linguistics.

Both parts will feature invited talks (the names of the speakers will be published on the website as soon as they have been confirmed) as well as regular talks. The part on Sign Linguistics will also feature tutorials in Sign Linguistics, and a poster session.

The program committee invites submissions of (two page) abstracts for both workshop parts, on all aspects of Deaf Education and Sign Linguistics. Areas of 
interest include, but are not limited to:

Deaf Education: 
* history of Deaf Education
* current practice in Deaf Education
* Deaf teacher training

Sign Linguistics:
* phonetics
* phonology
* morphology
* syntax
* semantics
* psycholinguistics
* sociolinguistics
* pragmatics
* acquisition
* modality issues

The submission deadline is June 23the; date of notification of acceptance is July 15th. 

Details of the submission procedure are available at the submission page
of the workshop website (http://ingezwitserlood.ruhosting.nl/conferences/DeafEducation_SignLinguistics/Submission.html). 
We can only accept contributions submitted electronically via the Easychair conference management system as described there. 

Important dates.
* Submission deadline: June 23, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2009
* Registration deadline: August 15, 2009
* Workshop: September 21-23, 2009

Organization Committee:

* Dr. Nino Amiridze (Uil OTS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
* Dr. Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
* Dr. Ether Soselia (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences)
* Amiran Batatunashvili (Head of the Union of the Deaf of Georgia)
* Natia Amiridze (National Education Accreditation Center, Department of Mobility and European Integration)

Scientific Committee:

* Dr. Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Dr. Josep Quer (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
* Dr. Nino Amiridze (Uil OTS, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
* Dr. Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)


Inge Zwitserlood

Centre for Language Studies – Dept. of Linguistics Radboud University Nijmegen
Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen - Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen
i.zwitserlood at let.ru.nl
http://ingezwitserlood.ruhosting.nl/index.html



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