Fwd: call for papers: Variation and Language Processing, Christchurch New Zealand, 16-18 Jan 2013

[Sophie Wauquier]

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Sujet: 	call for papers: Variation and Language Processing, Christchurch 
New Zealand, 16-18 Jan 2013
Date : 	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:25:43 +1200
De : 	Kevin Watson <kevin.watson at canterbury.ac.nz>
Pour : 	mfm at lists.ed.ac.uk



We hope this conference may be of interest to colleagues on this list.
Apologies for cross-posting.
Best wishes
Kevin Watson,

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Full Title: Variation and Language Processing
Short Title: VALP

Date: 16-Jan-2013 - 18-Jan-2013
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Contact Person: Kevin Watson & Lynn Clark, University of Canterbury
Meeting Email: ucvalp at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.nzilbb.canterbury.ac.nz/VALP.shtml

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

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2012

Meeting Description:

Traditionally, linguistic variation has been the concern of
(variationist) sociolinguistics and work in language processing has
fallen under the domain of psycholinguistics and cognitive science.
Recently, however, this apparent division has been questioned because
work in sociolinguistics now encompasses experimental techniques and
work in psycholinguistics has begun to engage with variable naturalistic
data. As the interests of these fields converge, new questions about the
relationship between linguistic variation and social cognition have been
generated e.g.  How is linguistic variation stored in cognition? How is
the 'linguistic' and the 'extra-linguistic' linked?  How do we best
model these connections?

Questions like these framed the first Variation and Language Processing
(VALP) conference, held at the University of Chester (UK) in 2011, and
we are pleased to announce the continuation of the discussion at VALP2,
hosted by the New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain and Behaviour
(NZILBB) and the Linguistics Department at the University of Canterbury
(New Zealand).

The New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain and Behaviour is a global
hub for multi-disciplinary language-based research with five
cross-cutting themes: language variation and change, social cognition,
bilingualism, ageing and language acquisition. The VALP conference,
therefore, particularly welcomes papers and posters on topics relating
to these themes.

We are delighted to announce that the invited plenary speakers at VALP2
are:

Professor Cathi Best, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Australia
Professor Paul Foulkes, University of York, UK
Associate Professor Paul Warren, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Call for Papers:

We invite the submission of abstracts from any area of the language
sciences dealing with research in keeping with the theme of the
conference.

Abstracts, which will be peer-reviewed, should be no longer than 400
words and may be presented in either .pdf .doc or .txt format. We will
use Linguist Lists's Easy Abstracts submission system. To submit, go to
the VALP2 Easy Abs site. Submitted abstracts should be anonymous, with
author details contained within the Easy Abstracts online form.

Accepted oral papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation (20
minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for questions). In addition, we also
welcome poster submissions. When you submit your abstract, you will be
asked to indicate whether you would be prepared to present your work (i)
either as a talk or a poster paper or (ii) only as a poster.

EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/valp2
CALL DEADLINE: 20 AUGUST 2012

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Dr Kevin Watson
Linguistics, School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics
kevin.watson at canterbury.ac.nz
skype: kev_watson


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