[koglist] 1st NetWordS Summer School--Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exploring the Mental Lexicon

http://www.networds-esf.eu/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01… 1st NetWordS Summer School Interdisciplinary Approaches to Exploring the Mental Lexicon Center for Advanced Academic Studies, Dubrovnik, Croatia Jul 2th-6th 2012 Download summer school programme here. If you are interested in attending the summer school please pre-register here. Category: SUMMER SCHOOL The school offers a broad and intensive range of interdisciplinary courses on methodological and topical issues related to the architecture of the mental lexicon, its level of organisation, content and functioning, and a series of key-note lectures on recent advances in this area. Teachers and lectures, top scholars in their respective fields, will provide a cross-disciplinarily informed synthesis of a variety of topics and approaches, with a view to promoting interdisciplinary methods of research and assessment for grammar architecture and language physiology. The school targets doctoral students and junior researchers from as diverse fields as Cognition, Computer Science, Brain Sciences and Linguistics, with a strong motivation to advance their awareness of theoretical, typological, psycholinguistic, computational and neuro-physiological aspects of word structure and processing. The school will be able to accept up to 80 participants. Pre-registration applications will be processed in order of receipt. Priority will be given to applicants from countries which financially support the ESF Programme (contributing organisations). Registration is carried out in two steps. Step 1): applicants will have to submit the pre-registration form below. A confirmation of successful submission will immediately be sent to the email address provided in the form. Step 2): by March 15th applicants will receive a further email confirming that their application was accepted and will be asked to finalise their registration accordingly. Accomodation info: a number of affordable double and triple rooms will be made available at a convent nearby the school venue (for a total of 70 beds). The Dubrovnik University Residence also provides about 20 single rooms (49€ per day, per person), 3 double rooms (37€ per day, per person) and 7 double-bed apartments (40€ per day, per person). Other reasonable B&B accommodations are available in private houses and apartments.