29.525, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology/South Korea

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Subject: 29.525, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology/South Korea

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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 18:20:55
From: Yungdo Yun [yungdoyun at dongguk.edu]
Subject: Language Learning and Teaching in Segmental and Suprasegmental Features

Full Title: Language Learning and Teaching in Segmental and Suprasegmental Features 
Short Title: 2018 SNU-ICL 

Date: 15-Jun-2018 - 16-Jun-2018
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Yungdo Yun
Meeting Email: yungdoyun at dongguk.edu
Web Site: https://snulei.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Phonetics; Phonology 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers,
practitioners, and teachers to share and discuss the most recent trends,
results, and practical challenges relating to learning and teaching segmental
and suprasegmental features.

The following topics are of particular interest to this workshop:

- Acquisition of a sound system
- Roles of lexical stress in pronunciation
- Roles of lexical tone in pronunciation
- Intonation – Form and meaning
- Information structures (focus, topic, etc.)
- Use of prosody to disambiguate a syntactic structure
- Factors affecting L2 pronunciation development
- L1 and/or L2 speech perception and production
- L1 and/or L2 speech processing
- Pronunciation education of foreign languages

However, any topic related to language learning and teaching for pronunciation
is also welcome.

Call for Papers:

Language Learning and Teaching in Segmental and Suprasegmental Features

Workshop webpage:   https://snulei.wordpress.com/

We issue this call for papers to solicit research papers for a theme session
focusing on various segmental and suprasegmental aspects of language-learning
and -teaching strategies in all areas of phonetics, phonology, language
learning, and language teaching. As part of the SNU Conference on
International Conference on Linguistics that will be held on June 15-16, 2018
at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea), this theme session aims to
provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and
teachers to share and discuss the most recent trends, results, and practical
challenges relating to learning and teaching segmental and suprasegmental
features.

The following topics are of particular interest to this theme session:

- Acquisition of a sound system
- Roles of lexical stress in pronunciation
- Roles of lexical tone in pronunciation
- Intonation - Form and meaning
- Information structures (focus, topic, etc.)
- Use of prosody to disambiguate a syntactic structure
- Factors affecting L2 pronunciation development
- L1 and/or L2 speech perception and production
- L1 and/or L2 speech processing
- Pronunciation education of foreign languages

However, any topic related to language learning and teaching for pronunciation
is also welcome.

Guidelines for abstract submission:

We welcome abstracts touching on any of the above-listed (or related) topics
for oral (20 minute talk and 10 minute discussion, 14 slots are available) or
poster presentations (10 minute talk and 5 minute discussion, 10 slots are
available). Please indicate your preference when submitting your abstract.

The length of each abstract should not exceed 500 words (less than 1 page, not
including references). Abstracts for theme session papers must be submitted
electronically to the following address 

sicl-phon at daum.net

with the author(s)’ information in a separate page including name,
affiliation, title of the presentation, email address, and preference for
oral/poster presentation. 

It should be submitted in the MS word format and in the pdf format, both of
which should be titled as [the initial of corresponding author’s first name +
his or her full last name_abs_LLTSSF]. For instance, if your name is James
Baker, you are supposed to submit two files:

JBaker_abs_LLTSSF.doc
JBaker_abs_LLTSSF.pdf

If you need to use phonetic characters, please make sure that they are
displayed correctly. 

The deadline for abstract submission is March 5, 2018. Notification of
acceptance will be communicated by March 16, 2018.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and therefore must exclude all
references to the author(s).

Contact Information:

Any inquiry regarding abstract submission should be addressed to Yungdo Yun at
yungdoyun at dongguk.edu and/or Yong-cheol Lee at yongcheol at cju.ac.kr. For other
questions, please contact Myung-Kwan Park at snu-icl2017 at daum.net, the
conference organizer of the conference.

Important Dates and Information:

Abstract deadline:   March 5, 2018
Notification of acceptance:  March 16, 2018
Program announcement:   March 31, 2018General Linguistics, Language
Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology
Early registration deadline:  May 15, 2018

Conference dates:  June 15-16, 2018
Conference venue: Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea 
Submission to:   [sicl-phon at daum.net]

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