36.2991, Confs: 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing (Taiwan)

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Date: 06-Oct-2025
From: Aymeric Collart [aymeric.collart at ntnu.edu.tw]
Subject: 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing


2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing
Short Title: MEALP-2025
Theme: Exploring Taiwan's diversity and beyond

Date: 07-Nov-2025 - 09-Nov-2025
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Contact: Aymeric Collart
Contact Email: aymeric.collart at ntnu.edu.tw
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/mealp-2025

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition;
Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): Min Nan Chinese (nan)
                     Paiwan (pwn)
                     Sediq (trv)
                     Tagalog (tgl)
                     Taiwan Sign Language (tss)
Language Family(ies): Austronesian; Formosan; Japonic; Ryukyuan;
Sino-Tibetan

This international event brings together researchers interested in how
the under-represented languages of East and Southeast Asia—such as
Formosan, Philippine, Hakka, Ryukyuan, and Taiwan Sign Language—can
deepen our understanding of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and
language acquisition. Despite their theoretical richness, these
languages remain largely absent from experimental research.
The conference opens with a hands-on workshop (November 7) exploring
experimental methods in both lab and field settings, addressing
challenges unique to working with marginalized languages, including
insider/outsider dynamics and neurolinguistic tools such as EEG.
The following two days (November 8–9) feature sessions on language
processing and structure—focusing on morphology, syntax, and temporal
relations—as well as applied psycholinguistics, including language
assessment, acquisition, and how linguistic and population diversity
shape cognitive processing.
This event provides a rare platform to bridge theoretical insights and
experimental methods in the context of some of the world’s most
linguistically rich yet under-researched languages. In other words, by
showcasing experimental work with linguistically rich but
underexplored languages, this event offers researchers a rare
opportunity to expand both theoretical and methodological horizons.
Open to the public, “MEALP-2025: Exploring Taiwan’s diversity and
beyond” features 16 invited speakers:
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (University of South Australia);
Dave Kenneth Cayado (University of London);
Shiaohui Chan (National Taiwan Normal University);
Kamil Deen (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa);
Yi-Shiuan Chiu (Fu Jen Catholic University);
Rowena Garcia (Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS);
Masatoshi Koizumi (Tohoku University);
Yao-ying Lai (National Chengchi University);
Hajime Ono (Tsuda University);
Manami Sato (Okinawa International University);
Amy Schafer (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa);
Apay Tang (National Dong Hwa University);
Tsung-lun Wan (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University);
Akiko Yokoyama (National Institute for Japanese Language and
Linguistics);
Masataka Yano (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Please send any questions to Elizabeth Zeitoun hsez at as.edu.tw and
Aymeric Collart aymeric.collart at ntnu.edu.tw.



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