[RNLD] Summer School (Australia) 2016

[John Mansfield]

SUMMER SCHOOL 2016

2nd Summer School of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of
Language

When: 1-5 December, 2016

Where: Queen's College, University of Melbourne

The Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (COEDL), will be
running a Summer School in language research in December 2016. This follows
from the successful first Summer School in 2015. The School is aimed at
post-graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and other language
researchers, providing advanced instruction in specialist language research
topics. International attendees are welcome.

Summer School 2016 is hosted by the University of Melbourne, and will be
held over five days, 1–5 December. The venue will be the historic Queen’s
College, adjoining the University campus in Parkville, Melbourne.

Courses offered in 2016 are listed below. Courses will run over two days or
four days, with one set of morning courses and another set of afternoon
courses. Saturday 3 December will provide hands-on learning activities,
separate from the main course content.

Registration and accommodation details are forthcoming. Places will be
limited.

Note that the summer school will be immediately followed by the Australian
Linguistics Society conference
<http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/alaa-als-2016/> at Monash University.

Web:
dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2016/
Enquiries: coedl.summer.school.2016 at gmail.com


Course program:

*Many languages – one brain: an introduction to neurotypology*
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and Matthias Schlesewsky (University of South
Australia)

*Contact languages*
Jeff Siegel & Stefan Pfänder (University of New England and University of
Freiburg)

*Sociophonetics*
Kevin Watson (University of Canterbury)

*Referentiality and argument structure in discourse*
Stefan Schnell (University of Melbourne)

*Canonical Typology*
Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)

*Agent-based modelling and the evolution of language*
Matt Spike (Australian National University)

*Statistical corpus analysis*
Danielle Barth (Australian National University)

*Mixed models statistics*
Seamus Donnelly (Australian National University)

*Word structure in Australian languages*
Brett Baker and Mark Harvey (University of Melbourne and University of
Newcastle)

*Papuan languages*
Don Daniels, Nick Evans and others (Australian National University)
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