18.3186, Confs: Applied Ling,Lang Acquisition,Syntax,Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-3186. Tue Oct 30 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.3186, Confs: Applied Ling,Lang Acquisition,Syntax,Text/Corpus Ling/UK

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Date: 29-Oct-2007
From: Maria Arche < archemaria at hotmail.com >
Subject: Workshop on Corpus Methods for SLA Research

 

	
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:07:03
From: Maria Arche [archemaria at hotmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Corpus Methods for SLA Research 
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Workshop on Corpus Methods for SLA Research 
Short Title: SPLLOC Workshop 

Date: 25-Jan-2008 - 25-Jan-2008 
Location: University of Southampton, United Kingdom 
Contact: Antonia Perez 
Contact Email: ap1u06 at soton.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.splloc.soton.ac.uk/event.shtml 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Syntax;
Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Meeting Description: 

This workshop will present a new corpus of spoken L2 Spanish (Spanish Language
learner Oral Corpus: SPLLOC), and review the potential contribution of learner
corpora to SLA research. The corpus has been created through an ESRC funded
project at the universities of Southampton, Newcastle and York. It consists of
samples of learner speech in a variety of genres, from beginners to advanced.
The conventions and software of the CHILDES project (http://childes.psy.cmu.edu
) have been used for transcription and part of speech tagging of the corpus. The
programme includes presentations from members of the SPLLOC team about the
corpus design and associated research programme and a hands-on workshop
demonstrating CHILDES programmes for data analysis. 

Organisers: Ros Mitchell, Laura Domínguez, María J. Arche, Antonia Pérez
(University of Southampton); Florence Myles (University of Newcastle); Emma
Marsden (University of York)

Provisional workshop programme:

1000-1030	
Coffee and registration

1030-1200	
Presentations by SPLLOC team members:
L2 corpus design 
Researching acquisition of Spanish word order
Researching acquisition of Spanish clitic pronouns
Researching lexical development in Spanish L2

1200-1300	
Discussion: Contribution of learner corpora to SLA (led by discussant Prof Amaya
Mendikoetxea, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

1300-1400	
Lunch

1400-1600	
Hands on workshop: using CHILDES for SLA

1600-1630	
Concluding discussion.

Location: The workshop will take place at the Avenue Campus, University of
Southampton, UK. For maps and directions see
http://www.soton.ac.uk/about/whereissoton/index.html .

Registration: Registration is FREE, but numbers will be limited (maximum 30
participants).  To reserve a place at the workshop please contact:

Antonia Pérez, SPLLOC Project Administrator
School of Humanities/ Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
UK
Email: ap1u06 at soton.ac.uk 

Travel bursaries: A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for
full time research students. To be considered for a bursary please send a short
statement with your registration request explaining how participation in the
workshop will benefit your doctoral research. Deadline for bursary applications:
30 November 2007.

Accommodation: We cannot make accommodation bookings but information on local
hotels and guest houses is available at
http://www.soton.ac.uk/accommodation/docs/Guest%20House%20List%202006.pdf 

For further and updated details, please, visit our web page:
http://www.splloc.soton.ac.uk/






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