Call for Papers: Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014)

[Michèle Pettinato]

Workshop title: Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication 
Development (LSCD 2014)

Dates: 3-4 April 2014

Location: UCL, London, UK

Meeting website:  
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014

Contact email:  lscd-2014 at langsci.ucl.ac.uk**

Submission deadline: 6 January 2014

 

Workshop description: 

Much emphasis in research on speech and communication development has been 
on the rapid developments that occur in the first five years of life. 
However, less attention has been given to later stages of development. 
When, in fact, is development truly complete? Research has shown that even 
when a child is judged to be consistently producing all speech sounds, 
production is not adult-like, with more dispersed and variable phoneme 
categories and motor gestures. Similarly, in speech perception, phoneme 
categories are less clearly defined until early teens and children are more 
affected by noise and reverberation. Cognitive, attentional and memory 
factors may also influence children's ability to use speech effectively; 
communicative and conversational strategies (such as repair and 
turn-taking) continue to develop in adolescence. The age at which a given 
linguistic unit or communicative competence has been acquired and what 
constitutes the criterion for successful acquisition is therefore a far 
from trivial question.  This will be a particular focus of the workshop, 
along with the interplay between speech development and cognitive, 
perceptual and motor systems.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for interactions between 
researchers from areas of developmental research that rarely meet, even 
though they are linked:  speech and communication is often investigated 
either from a purely phonetic/phonological perspective, or focused on 
interactional/pragmatic principles.  The manner in which the two interact 
through development is little explored.  These questions are relevant for 
clinical and educational practice, and also inform theories of language 
processing and levels of representations. 

 

Invited speakers include:

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL) tbc

Melissa Redford (University of Oregon)

Stuart Rosen (UCL)

Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)

Bill Wells (University of Sheffield)

Natalia Zharkova (Queen Margaret University)

 

Call for papers:

We invite submissions, for oral and poster presentations, that deal with 
the following topics focusing on populations aged 5 years to early 
adulthood:

-          Later developments in speech perception in typically-developing 
children

-          Later developments in speech production in typically-developing 
children

-          Development in discourse: structure, repair strategies, 
dysfluencies

-          Speech and communication development in bilinguals and 
second-language learners

-          Development in auditory, cognitive, attentional skills and 
impact on speech and communication development

-          Development of sociolinguistic variations

-          Perception and production in adverse listening conditions

-          Research on speech and communication development in atypical 
populations that informs on typical development

 

Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 6 January, 2014, via 
Easychair (submission site open from 15 November). Submitted abstracts 
should not include authors and affiliations and must not be longer than two 
pages of A4-format. References and figures can be on an additional page. 
Abstracts should be single-spaced and in Calibri 11pt font. Abstracts will 
be evaluated anonymously by two reviewers. Authors will be requested to 
submit a final version of the extended abstract after acceptance.

 

Important dates:

First call for papers                                                                  
1 October 2013

Abstract submission opens                                                      
15 November 2013

Submission deadline of abstracts                                              
6 January 2014

Notification of acceptance                                                         
31 January 2014

Workshop                                                                               
3-4 April 2014

 

Local Organising committee:

Sonia Granlund

Lorna Halliday

Valerie Hazan (Chair)

Merle Mahon

Caroline Newton

Michèle Pettinato

Outi Tuomainen

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The workshop is organised under the aegis of the ESRC project on 
Speaker-controlled Variability in Children's Speech in Interaction based at 
UCL. 

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