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1) Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conf. CFP

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Date: 19 Sep 2013
From: reposted from LINGUIST
Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conf. CFP

Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:11:08
From: Dimitrios Ntelitheos [dimitrios_n at uaeu.ac.ae]
Subject: Experimental Arabic Linguistics

Full Title: Experimental Arabic Linguistics
Short Title: EXAL2013

Date: 06-Nov-2013 - 07-Nov-2013
Location: Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Contact Person: Ali Idrissi, Dimitrios Ntelitheos
Meeting Email: exal2013.uaeu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/exaluaeu2013/home

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Neurolinguistics; Phonology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Arabic

Call Deadline: 25-Sep-2013

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at the United Arab Emirates University is
organizing the first conference on Experimental Arabic Linguistics
(EXAL-2013). The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars using
experimental approaches to address long-standing or new theoretical issues
pertaining to the study of language, focusing on Arabic. Areas of interest
include (but are not limited to):

1) L1 acquisition in typically and atypically developing children
2) Language impairment and language therapy
3) Representations and processing in healthy and brain-damaged speakers
(case studies, EEG, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS)
4) L2 acquisition from an experimental perspective
5) Representations and processing in Arabic heritage speakers
6) Experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology
7) Computational linguistics
8) Corpus-based linguistic studies

Invited Speakers:

Liina Pylkkänen, New York University: TBA
Michel Paradis, McGill University: 'Bilingual speakers' Implicit and
explicit memory in various pathologies: implications for assessment and
treatment.'
Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University: 'Towards normative data on
phonological development in Arabic.'
Diogo Almeida, New York University - Abu Dhabi: TBA

For further information about the conference venue, travel and
accommodation details please visit our website and the university website
at www.uaeu.ac.ae. More information about the conference will be added to
the conference website as it becomes available.

2nd Call for Papers:

This is a reminder and notification of deadline extension.

We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations followed by
a 10 minutes discussion on any of the issues listed above, or any other
issue related to the broader theme of the conference. Each author may
submit at most one individual and one joint paper. Abstracts including the
title of the paper should not exceed one page (A4 or Letter size), with a
possible second page for examples, diagrams, and references. Please, use 12
size fonts with at least 2.5 cm or 1 inch margins. Abstracts should be
anonymous and should be submitted as PDF or MS Word files at the Linguist
List Easy Abs:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/exal2013

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2013
Notification of acceptance: Beginning of October 2013
Conference dates: 6-7 November 2013

We anticipate that limited travel funding will be provided to students
whose abstracts have received the highest acceptance scores by the abstract
reviewers. Details regarding financial support will be communicated to
eligible presenters before the program is finalized.

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