Summer School of Sociolinguistics @ Newcastle University

The Fourth Summer School of Sociolinguistics will be held at Newcastle University from Tuesday 19th to Thursday 21st June 2012.

This year’s programme is intended to give postgraduate students in all areas of sociolinguistics the chance to share their research and attend workshops and lectures given by experts in the field.

We are delighted to announce that our plenary speakers for the Summer School are:

Prof. Isabelle Buchstaller (Universität Leipzig)
Prof. Gerry Docherty (Newcastle University)
Dr Warren Maguire (University of Edinburgh)
Dr Chris Montgomery (Sheffield Hallam University)

For more information, please visit our website: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/sss4

CFP: ExAPP 2013 - Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation @ University of Copenhagen

March 20-22, 2013

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Mirjam Ernestus (Radboud University Nijmegen) Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University Nijmegen) Oliver Niebuhr (Christian-Albrecht-University, Kiel) Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Variability in linguistic behavior is studied in all branches of linguistics. While the approaches may differ in the objectives for studying language variation, they all benefit from incorporating the systematic manipulation of linguistic phenomena in the study of linguistic behavior. The study of the many kinds of variation that can be found in spontaneous speech can help to extend current models of speech production and speech perception, as well as shed light on the study of language change.

The goal of the ExAPP conference series is to gather scholars from all branches of linguistics employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof.

These include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Workshop: ERP Bootcamp

Prof. Steven Luck (UC, Davis) will be conducting the first UK version of
his well-known 'ERP Boot Camp' from 28 - 30 June (2012) in the School of
Psychology at Birmingham University. The Boot Camp is based on his
well-known book, "An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential
Technique" (MIT Press)

The ERP Boot Camp has been running for 5 years in the USA and taught many
hundreds of people how to conduct ERP experiments. It is an excellent
opportunity for staff and advanced students to learn and/or sharpen their
theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The version Steve will
conduct at Birmingham will be a 'mini boot camp' comprised of 2 days of
lectures and a half day of practical ERPLAB Toolbox data-analysis
activities.

I would very much appreciate it if you would alert your colleagues and
students to this opportunity. There are a limited number of places so
early registration is advisable at the Birmingham Online Shop:

http://www.bhamonlineshop.co.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=451&deptid=4&catid=10

Further details about topics covered and a link for accommodation can
also be found on this website.

CFP: The Social Side of Speech

'The Social Side of Speech' is a 1-day conference focusing on leading-edge international and national research in experimental sociophonetics. This research topic addresses empirical studies of how people speak the same language, yet do so differently depending on their social and geographical origins. Those speech differences are, in turn, demonstrably apparent to native listeners of the language.

The conference is sponsored by the MARCS Institute and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, UWS and will take place at UWS Bankstown campus on Wednesday, 11 April 2012. We have an exciting line-up of invited talks by international experts, and talks about ongoing socio-phonetics research at MARCS Institute.

CFP: SEMDIAL 2012 @ Paris, France

SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial)
The 16th WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2012
https://sites.google.com/site/semdial2012seinedial/

Invited Speakers:
Eve V. Clark (Stanford University)
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (DFKI-Saarbr?cken)
Fran?ois Recanati (Institut Jean Nicod, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure)

The SEMDIAL series of workshops brings together researchers working on
the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics,
philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience (see past SemDials).
In 2012 the workshop will be hosted by Universit? Paris-Diderot (Paris
7). The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and Paris is
of course one of the greatest cities to visit, especially in
September. SeineDial will be immediately preceded by a workshop on
Dialogue and Contextualism (a separate announcement on this will
appear shortly) and will feature a special session on The Acquisition
of Dialogue.

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the
University of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD
studentships starting in September 2012. ILCC is dedicated to the
pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to
language, communication and cognition. Primary research areas
include:

* Natural language processing and computational linguistics

* Spoken language processing

* Dialogue and multimodal interaction

* Information extraction, retrieval and presentation

* Computational theories of human cognition

* Educational and assistive technology

Workshop: 15th EEGLAB Workshop, Beijing, China

The 15th EEGLAB Workshops will take place from Saturday June
16th through Monday June 18th at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China,
following the HBM conference. Participants will be expected to bring
laptops with Matlab installed so as to be able to participate in the practical
sessions. The preliminary program and workshop details are available below.

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/EEGLAB_2012_Beijing

Registration costs are the following (this is a non-profit event): $150 (RMB 900)
for students/post-doc and $300 (RMB 1800) for faculty/professional. This

includes conference room rental, all lunches, all coffee breaks, and a short
excursion. We will provide a list of hotels on the workshop web page. Registration
will be performed on a first come first serve basis. Registration closes when the
workshop is at capacity or on April 15th. Please register using the link below.

http://sccn.ucsd.edu/eeglab/workshop12Beijing/indexapplication.html

5th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference - Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications, UCLA

October 19–20, 2012, UCLA

with the support of the International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium (ICNC)

Websites:
http://www.thefpr.org/conference2012/index.php
http://cmbconference2012.wordpress.com/

The conference highlights emerging concepts, methods, and applications in the study of culture, mind, brain, with attention to cutting-edge research, the context in which methods are used, and the kinds and quality of collaborations that advance interdisciplinary training.

Registration for our conference is Now Open:
http://www.thefpr.org/conference2012/registration.php

Seating is very limited. Please note that our conference in 2010 sold out two months before the end of early registration.
Don’t miss out. Register Now to secure your seat at our 2012 conference.