31.1148, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Denmark

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Subject: 31.1148, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Denmark

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:13:08
From: Alice Tse [alice at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: International Workshop on Language Acquisition in Copenhagen

 
Full Title: International Workshop on Language Acquisition in Copenhagen 

Date: 24-Jun-2020 - 25-Jun-2020
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Alice Ping Ping Tse
Meeting Email: alice at hum.ku.dk
Web Site: https://cst.ku.dk/english/projekter/multimodal-child-language-acquisition/international-workshop-on-language-acquisition/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

A workshop on language acquisition in Copenhagen is jointly organized by the
Center for Language Technology (University of Copenhagen), Childhood
Bilingualism Research Centre (Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK) and
University of Cambridge-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Bilingualism. The workshop
aims to provide an international platform for researchers to exchange recent
findings and discuss current and future research directions for language
acquisition across diverse contexts. We especially encourage contributions on
the special theme “multimodality and child language acquisition”, but other
topics related to language acquisition are welcome too. 
Studies on multimodal language processing are new in the field of language
acquisition, and even rarer for bilingual language acquisition. The workshop
will include an open discussion session on the importance of gestures in
(early) bilingual language acquisition. Increasingly, studies have shown that
lexical, syntactic and gestural development are closely linked, and
development of gestures is a prerequisite for language development.
Incorporating multimodality in the study of bilingual language acquisition can
provide new insights that can result in new methodologies and perspectives
which bring advances to the field. Implications for language acquisition and
strategies for teaching a second language will also be explored. The workshop
is organized under the Network “Multimodal Child Language Acquisition”
supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark from the Danish Government.


Second Call for Contributions: 

We welcome contributions addressing any of the following topics in
bilingualism and multimodal communication:
 - Bilingual language acquisition in children
 - Bi-/trilingual child language corpora
 - Second language acquisition
 - Crosslinguistic influence/Transfer in bilingual/second language acquisition
 - Code-mixing and code-switching phenomena, and their effect on language
acquisition and social impact 
 - Child language development
 - Early development of gestures 
 - Gestures and language development 
 - Gestures and foreign language learning 
 - Data collection, annotation and/or processing of (multimodal) corpora for
language acquisition
 - Crowdsourcing for language acquisition
 - Natural Language Processing for language acquisition
 - Other related topics

Submissions and Format: 
Extended abstracts consisting of 2 pages, excluding references. Author(s) can
choose to have an oral or poster presentation. All submissions must be written
in English and submitted as PDF files to costanza at hum.ku.dk or
alice at hum.ku.dk.

Important dates: 
Submission Deadline: 16 April 2020 23:59 CET 
Notification of acceptance: 25 April 
(Camera-ready version:    21 May
Workshop Date: 24 and 25 June 2020

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Anna Esposito – Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Prof. Marianne Gullberg – Lund University
Prof. Stephen Matthews – University of Hong Kong
Prof. Virginia Yip – Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Organizing Committee: 
Costanza Navarretta – University of Copenhagen
Patrizia Paggio – University of Copenhagen
Alice Ping Ping Tse – University of Copenhagen
Virginia Yip – Chinese University of Hong Kong




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