33.2731, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2731, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/Belgium

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Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:04:22
From: Laura Rosseel [laura.rosseel at vub.be]
Subject: Variation in Language Acquisition 5

 
Full Title: Variation in Language Acquisition 5 
Short Title: ViLA5 

Date: 01-Jun-2023 - 02-Jun-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Laura Rosseel
Meeting Email: ViLA5 at kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.vila5.be/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Sep-2022 

Meeting Description:

Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA) is a conference series aiming to
uncover when and how children and other learners produce, perceive and
evaluate socially meaningful language variation. Tackling these questions,
ViLA is dedicated to push both sociolinguistics and language acquisition
research forward. Traditionally, the field of sociolinguistic research has
predominantly focused on variation in adult speech communities, thereby
backgrounding the question how these variation patterns are acquired. By
contrast, in their focus on the way language learners acquire standard
variants, language acquisition research has understudied language variation in
acquisition.

Combining the psycholinguistic focus on acquisition and the sociolinguistic
emphasis on variation, the ViLA conference series aims to tackle questions
such as:

- From what age do children start acquiring the social meaning of language
variation?
- What role do input (of primary caregivers, peers, media …) and socialization
play in the acquisition of the social meaning of language variation?
- Are social and denotational meanings of language acquired simultaneously?
- Does the production of socially meaningful language variation precede its
perception and evaluation? Or is it the other way around?
- What mental processes govern the acquisition of social meaning of language
variation?
- How can a better grasp of the acquisition of socially meaningful language
variation help us understand and deal with processes of inclusion/exclusion
and social biases?
- Which theoretical models from which disciplines offer the most adequate
solutions for describing the processes involved in acquiring socially
meaningful variation and its relation to our more general understanding of
language variation and change?
- Which (combination of) methods are most suited to answer the questions
outlined above, taking into account the complexities of working with young
language learners?

These questions are addressed for various acquisition contexts in which
variation takes central stage:

1. Child acquisition of dialectal varieties of the first language;
2. Child multilingual and multidialectal acquisition within
multilingual/multidialectal communities;
3. Acquisition of language-internal variation as well as language mixing in
the case of second language learning in contact with native speakers (e.g.
study abroad, migration), and learning about sociolinguistic variation in the
foreign language classroom;
4. Lifelong second dialect acquisition.


Final Call for Papers:

The fifth edition of ViLA will be held in Brussels on 1 and 2 June 2023. The
theme of this edition of the conference is ‘language, world and mind in
acquisition’. With this theme we want to emphasize the interaction of the
societal and cognitive aspects of the acquisition process: how does external
input and mental processing and storing interact in the acquisition of
language variation?

​Contributions on this specific theme are welcomed alongside any papers that
focus on one or more of the classic ViLA themes as introduced above: empirical
analyses of production, perception and/or evaluation of variation in
acquisition; theoretical accounts contrasting or combining models on the
acquisition of variation and on the relationship between language, world and
mind; interdisciplinary and innovative methodologies to study variation in
language acquisition, drawing from e.g. sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
social cognition, anthropology, social neurosciences, literary studies,
applied linguistics.

Keynotes:
- Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Queen Mary University London, UK
- Katherine Kinzler, University of Chicago, US
- Irmtraud Kaiser, University of Salzburg, Austria
- Gert Storms & Steven Verheyen, KU Leuven, Belgium & Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Jack McMartin & Jan Van Coillie, KU Leuven, Belgium

Submission guidelines:
​We invite abstracts for either 20 minute oral presentations or for posters.
Anonymous abstracts of max. 500 words containing a clear research question,
methodology, (provisional) results and significance for the field can be
submitted via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vila5

Important dates:
- Abstract submission opens: 1 May 2022
- Deadline for submission: 14 September 2022
- Notification of acceptance: end of October 2022
- Conference: 1-2 June 2023

Website: https://www.vila5.be/




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