16.2129, Calls: Cognitive Science/Italy; General Ling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2129. Mon Jul 11 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2129, Calls: Cognitive Science/Italy; General Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 11-Jul-2005
From: Roberto Poli < roberto.poli at soc.unitn.it >
Subject: Projected Perception. At the Edge of Natural and Artificial Reality and Abstraction 

2)
Date: 06-Jul-2005
From: jonathan owens < jowens at casl.umd.edu >
Subject: Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:00:50
From: Roberto Poli < roberto.poli at soc.unitn.it >
Subject: Projected Perception. At the Edge of Natural and Artificial Reality and Abstraction  	  
 

Full Title: Projected Perception. At the Edge of Natural and Artificial Reality
and Abstraction 

Date: 01-Sep-2005 - 03-Sep-2005
Location: Bolzano, Italy 
Contact Person: Roberto Poli
Meeting Email: roberto.poli at soc.unitn.it
Web Site: http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jul-2005 

Meeting Description:

Projected Perception. At the Edge of Natural and Artificial Reality and Abstraction
Mitteleuropa Foundation ( http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it )

Bolzano 1st - 3rd September 2005

Speakers:

Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney
The Language and Logic of Concrete Perception: an Art Context

Fredo Durand, MIT CSAIL
Computer Depiction: A synergy between computer science, physics, perception and
the visual arts

Barbara Tversky, Stanford University
Minimal Artificial Reality

Frederic Fol Leymarie, London University at Goldsmith
The Medial Scaffold for 3D Shape Representation and some Recent Applications 

If you are interested in attending the workshop and/or contributing your own
ideas, please send an email (with a two-page abstract in attachment if you
intend to give a presentation/panel) to the secretary of Mitteleuropa
Foundation, Dr. Paola Benevento before July 30.

Important Dates:
- Deadline for abstract submissions: July 30, 2005
- Workshop: September 1-3, 2005



	
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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:00:55
From: jonathan owens < jowens at casl.umd.edu >
Subject: Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic  	  

	

Full Title: Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic 

Date: 08-Jun-2006 - 10-Jun-2006
Location: College Park, Maryland, United States of America 
Contact Person: jonathan owens
Meeting Email: jowens at casl.umd.edu
Web Site: http://register.casl.umd.edu/arabicconference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (ABV)

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2006 

Meeting Description:

The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the
University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language at the
University of Maryland is pleased to announce a conference on:

Communication and Information Structure in Spoken Arabic 

This conference aims to fill a gap in studies about spoken Arabic by presenting
descriptions of how information is structured by speakers. A core issue to be
addressed, for instance, is the interplay between new and old information, a
topic which has been defined within the Arabic linguistic tradition since
mediaeval times (e.g. mubtada' vs. xabar). Elements of information structure
will be examined in the spoken language in terms of word order, internal
structure of grammatical elements encoding informational units, segmental
marking, discourse particles, stress and intonation, as well as the
macro-organization of information in longer stretches of text. 

The Arabic Program of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the
University of Maryland, and the Center for Advanced Study of Language invite
scholars in Arabic linguistics to present original research papers that
contribute to our understanding of oral communication in Arabic. Presentations
from various theoretical perspectives are welcome, including Arabic
dialectology, accommodation theory, code-switching, pragmatics, discourse
analysis, conversation analysis, and the ethnography of speaking. We intend to
publish a collection of selected papers with a major publishing house. 

A list of invited speakers will be announced by October 2005. A certain amount
of travel funding is available.

Further information about the conference, as well as forms for registering and
submitting abstracts can be found at:

http://register.casl.umd.edu/arabicconference/


 



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