36.1317, Calls: PhonolEEGy3 (Italy)

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Subject: 36.1317, Calls: PhonolEEGy3 (Italy)

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Date: 19-Apr-2025
From: Arild Hestvik [hestvik at udel.edu]
Subject: PhonolEEGy3


Full Title: PhonolEEGy3

Date: 09-Jun-2025 - 10-Jun-2025
Location: Lecce, Italy
Contact Person: Milko Grimaldi
Meeting Email: mirko.grimaldi at unisalento.it
Web Site: https://sites.udel.edu/phonoleegy3

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics;
Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2025

PhonolEEGy3
The goal of the PhonolEEGy conference is to intersect experimental
research based on EEG / MEG with phonological theory. While EEG /
MEG-based research concerning linguistically relevant sound and its
patterning (phonology) is growing, work that explicitly addresses
phonological theory is still relatively limited.
The conference aims at promoting EEG / MEG-based experimental evidence
as it informs phonological theory to grow the intersection of these
fields.
The conference will take the form of a two-day meeting where
stabilized or fresh-from-the-lab results are presented, also with room
for discussing methodology, experiment design and emerging projects.
Contributors are invited to present not only their data and
interpretation, but also the bigger picture of how they view phonology
in a linguistic context and the role of neurophysiological evidence in
phonological theory.
Most existing work that brings EEG / MEG-based evidence to bear on
phonological theory is based on (asymmetric) MMN and the idea that
varying standards in MMN stimulus presentation allows us to elicit
phonological (rather than phonetic) representations that MMN will
reflect (Phillips et al. 2000). While this has proven to be a fruitful
experimental setting, contributions using experimental protocols
different from (asymmetric) MMN are especially invited, as are those
using production data, which are also underrepresented in the field.
EEG / MEG-based work also addresses aspects of phonology that are not
directly relevant to phonological theory such as:
• the transformation of the continuous acoustic signal into discrete
phonological categories that are manipulated by the cognitive system
• perception and production routines in phonological or auditory
processing
• neural encoding and localization of phonological items in the brain
(such as segments, alternations or markedness)
• preattentive or sublexical speech processing
• processing of different types of phonological items (well- vs.
ill-formed, phonemic vs. allophonic), or the kind of information
stored in a phoneme (phonetic vs. more abstract)
Although this research often pursues goals that do not speak to issues
in phonological theory per se, they are relevant. Contributions in
this area are invited to make explicit in which way their experimental
evidence or results impact phonological theory and/or the
phonetics-phonology interface.
Finally, contributions are also invited which do not involve genuine
neurophysiological data but rather link existing EEG / MEG /
fMRI-based evidence with phonological theory.
After its initial venue in Nice / France in Fall 2020, and the second
PhonolEEGy conference in UMASS/Amherst in 2023, the third event will
be held at the University of Salento (Lecce – Italy) on June 9th-10th,
2025. In this context, we are specifically encouraging undergraduate
and graduate students at the University of Salento to participate as
audience.
Organizing Committee:
Mirko Grimaldi – University of Salento
(https://www.unisalento.it/scheda-utente/-/people/mirko.grimaldi)
Francesco Sigona – University of Salento
(https://www.unisalento.it/scheda-utente/-/people/francesco.sigona)
Federica Cavicchio – University of Salento
(https://www.unisalento.it/scheda-utente/-/people/federica.cavicchio)
Tobias Sheer – Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS
(http://www.unice.fr/scheer/)
Arild Hestvik – University of Delaware (https://udel.edu/~hestvik))
PROGRAMME
Invited speaker: Stephen Politzer-Ahles, University of Kansas: "What
are language users doing with phonological representations
(other than making MMNs)?"
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We invite submissions that address issues in phonology and
phonological theory based on evidence from EEG / MEG. Work in EEG /
MEG may pursue goals that do not directly speak to issues in
phonological theory, but which are relevant for this area.
Thus, contributions are invited to make explicit in which way their
experimental evidence or results impact phonological theory.
Submissions are also invited which do not involve genuine
neurophysiological data but rather link existing EEG / MEG-based
evidence with phonological theory.
Contributions addressing the acquisition of second language phonetics
and phonology are particularly welcome. Recent research on how
functional and structural neuroplasticity can be modulated by focused
training, leading to improvements in L2 sound perception and
production, is paving the way for innovative, evidence-based
methodologies to enhance L2 learning.
Please submit an anonymous abstract that does not exceed 600 words
(one inch margin, Arial 11pt font, please include a word count) to the
conference email address: phonoleegy3.2025 at unisalento.it
The title should be visible, and figures / tables / references may be
included on a separate page. Figure captions and table legends should
not contain excessive amounts of substantial text (i.e., should not be
used to circumvent the length limit on the main text).
Abstracts may be submitted until April 30, 2025.



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