Workshop on Late Stages in Speech and Communication Development (LSCD 2014) - Working Links

[Michèle Pettinato]

apologies to all who attempted to use the links in the message - these 
don't seem to be working.

Below are fresh links which should work.  If not, pasting them into the 
browser will do the trick:

for the workshop website: 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014

submission instructions:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd-2014/abstract_submission

Abstract submission site: 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=lscd2014

On Monday, 6 January 2014 14:17:32 UTC+1, Michèle Pettinato wrote:
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> *FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS*
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> *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
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> Abstract submission site: 
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> *Submission deadline: Monday 6 January 2014*
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> 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) 
> Melissa Redford (University of Oregon)
> Stuart Rosen (UCL)
> Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto)
> Bill Wells (University of Sheffield)
> Natalia Zharkova (Queen Margaret University)
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> 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
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> Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 6 January, 2014, via 
> Easychair.  See full instructions at: 
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/research/speech/lscd
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> Important dates:
> Submission deadline of abstracts             6 January 2014
> Notification of acceptance                           31 January 2014
> Workshop                                                       3-4 April 
> 2014
>

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