1. Clinical Aphasiology Conference 2. Book announcement: The Ascent of Babel, Altmann 3. Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling 4. 11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE: Provisional programme 5. LOT Winterschool 1998 *********************************************************** 1. Clinical Aphasiology Conference From: aholland(a)U.Arizona.EDU (audrey l holland) Subject: CAC Clinical Aphasiology Conference The deadline for submission of papers for the 28th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) is January 9th. The Conference will be held in Asheville, North Carolina USA from June 14-17, 1998. Attendance is dependent upon submission of a paper. Contact: Audrey L. Holland, Ph.D., Program Chair, University of Arizona Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, PO Box 210071, Tucson Az, 85721-0 *********************************************************** 2. Book announcement: The Ascent of Babel, Altmann From: "Gerry T.M. Altmann" &lt;g.altmann(a)psych.york.ac.uk&gt; Subject: Book announcement New from Oxford University Press: The Ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding. By Gerry T.M. Altmann CONTENTS: 1: Looking towards Babel Introducing the mysteries of psycholinguistics 2: Babies, birth, and language What babies learn about language, even before they are born 3: Chinchillas do it too Learning to discriminate between different sounds 4: Words, and what we learn to do with them Learning about words, and how to combine them 5: Organizing the dictionary Phonemes, syllables, and other ways of looking up words 6: Words, and how we (eventually) find them Accessing the mental representations of words 7: Time flies like an arrow Understanding sentences I: coping with ambiguity 8: Who did what, and to whom? Understanding sentences II: identifying who is being talked about, what they are doing, and who they are doing it to 9: On the meaning of meaning The concepts associated with 'understanding' and 'meaning' 10: Exercising the vocal organs How we produce words and sentences 11: The written word Writing systems, reading, eye movements, and Socrates 12: When it all goes wrong Disorders of language 13: Wiring-up a brain Artificial neural networks and language learning 14: The descent from Babel Not all languages were created equal Bibliography Index Further details are available at the following URLs: For a detailed list of contents: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html For OUP (UK) blurb: http://www1.oup.co.uk/scripts/readcat?title=The+Ascent+of+Babel For OUP (USA) blurb: http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0198523785.html ================================================================= Dr. Gerry T.M. Altmann g.altmann(a)psych.york.ac.uk Department of Psychology University of York Tel: +44 (0)1904 434362 Heslington, York Y01 5DD. UK. Fax: +44 (0)1904 433181 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Homepage: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1 New book: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gtma1/Babel/outline.html ================================================================= *********************************************************** 3. Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling From: Steven Young &lt;young(a)psy.ox.ac.uk&gt; Subject: Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling ** CALL FOR ATTENDANCE ** Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 19 - 31 July 1998 Applications are invited for participation in a 2-week residential Summer School on techniques in connectionist modelling. The course is aimed primarily at researchers who wish to exploit neural network models in their teaching and/or research and it will provide a general introduction to connectionist modelling, biologically plausible neural networks and brain function through lectures and exercises on Macintoshs and PCs. The course is interdisciplinary in content though many of the illustrative examples are taken from cognitive and developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The instructors with primary responsibility for teaching the course are Kim Plunkett and Edmund Rolls. No prior knowledge of computational modelling will be required though simple word processing skills will be assumed. Participants will be encourages to start work on their own modelling projects during the Summer School. The cost of participation in the Summer School is =A3950 for Faculty and =A3750 for Graduate Students. This figure covers the=20 cost of accommodation (bed and breakfast at St. John's College), registration and all literature required for the Summer School. Participants will be expected to cover their own travel and meal costs. A small number of partial bursaries will be available for graduate students. Applicants should indicate whether they wish to be considered for a graduate student scholarship but are advised to seek their own funding as well, since in previous years the number of graduate student applications has far exceeded the number of scholarships available. Further information about contents of the course can be obtained from Steven.Young(a)psy.ox.ac.uk. If you are interested in participating in the Summer School, please contact: Mrs Sue King Department of Experimental Psychology South Parks Road University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3UD Tel: +44 (1865) 271 353 Email: sking(a)psy.ox.ac.uk Please send a brief description of your background with an explanation of why you would like to attend the Summer School (one page maximum) no later than 31st January 1998. --=20 Computer Officer, IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University <http://www.mrc-bbc.ox.ac.uk/~young> <mailto:Steven.Young@psy.ox.ac.= uk> *********************************************************** 4. 11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE: Provisional programme From: vholmes(a)post.psych.unimelb.edu.au Subject: Provisional programme Dear Participant Attached is a provisional programme for the conference, which I hope will satisfy everybody. You will note that because there is only one stream, the conference is starting a little earlier on the Thursday. There will be no need for a Saturday session. Let me know if there are any problems. Please register ASAP, so that I can do some sensible planning for numbers. Virginia PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 11TH AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH CONFERENCE Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne Thursday 13 & Friday 14 November, 1997 Thursday 13 9.45 - 10.00 Virginia Holmes Introductory remarks 10.00 - 11.00 Anne Cutler Key-note address 11.00 - 11.30 Morning Tea CHAIR Edith Bavin 11.30 - 12.00 Lesley Stirling, Janet Fletcher & Roger Wales The effect of accenting and de-accenting on determining anaphoric reference 12.00 - 12.30 Roger Wales & Bridget Ryburn How do we distinguish between linguistic and affective prosody? 12.30 - 1.00 Dennis Burnham, Vicky Averkiou, Amanda Olley, Cal= Paterson, Elizabeth Francis,=20 Ute Vollmer-Conna & Christine Kitamura Are you my little pussy-cat? Infant-, pet- and adult- directed speech 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch CHAIR Roger Wales 2.00 - 2.30 Edith Bavin, Roger Wales & Heather Kelly Chicken is turning mouse: A study of children's verb knowledge 2.30 - 3.00 Carli Growcott & Edith Bavin Who is kazzing? A study using the intermodal preferential looking method 3.00 - 3.30 Shane West, Edith Bavin & R. Khosla Token frequency effects on a connectionist model of past-tense formation 3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea CHAIR Linda Cupples 4.00 - 4.30 Virginia Holmes & Bernadette Dejean de la B=83tie Assignment of grammatical gender by native speakers of French 4.30 - 5.00 Cheryl Frenck-Mestre Choosing amongst models of syntactic ambiguity resolution in different languages 5.00 - 5.30 Yoshinori Sasaki Working memory and sentence processing strategies: =20 An experiment on Japanese causative structures=20 5.30 - 7.00 Reception Friday 14 CHAIR Chris Pratt 9.00 - 9.30 Keis Ohtsuka & Semih Sekman Accessibility in spatial representations of described and imagined scenes 9.30 - 10.00 Robert Pedlow Children's use of politeness in requests: Its relationship to request contexts and children's behavioural adjustment 10.00 - 10.30 Ian Thompson Conversations in psychiatry 10.30 - 11.00 Morning Tea CHAIR Greg Yelland 11.00 - 11.30 Paul McCormack, Tracy Knighton, Lauren Sullivan & Cilla Day Differences in speech production between boys and girls at 2.5 years of age 11.30 -12.00 Janet Fletcher Vowel to vowel coarticulation: Implications for phonological theory 12.00 -12.30 Linda Cupples & Teresa Iacono Phonological awareness and reading skills in children with Down Syndrome 12.30 -1.00 Lesley Bretherton & Virginia Holmes Temporal order judgments in dyslexic children 1.00 - 2.00 Lunch CHAIR Marcus Taft 2.00 - 2.30 Julia Herrmann, Michael Johnston & Chris Pratt Phonological and orthographic skills and word recognition ability in children with specific reading disability and average readers 2.30 - 3.00 Natasha Ruff, Chris Pratt & Michael Johnston Phonological and orthographic processes in the reading and spelling skills of 7-year-old to 9 year-old children 3.00 - 3.30 Xiaoping Zhu & Marcus Taft Can the radical of a Chinese character directly activate semantic features? 3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea CHAIR Anne Castles 4.00 - 4.30 Naomi Brown & Virginia Holmes Spelling strategies in skilled adult readers 4.30 - 5.00 Jennifer Burt Spelling in adults: An individual differences study 5.00 - 5.30 Marcus Taft Orthographic processing and reading ability: The importance of the BOSS 5.30 - 5.45 Business Meeting 7.30 Dinner *********************************************************** 5. LOT Winterschool 1998 From: "LOT (Christien Bok)" &lt;lot(a)let.ruu.nl&gt; Subject: LOT Winterschool 1998 Courses Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) in Leiden. You can find course descriptions, enrollment forms and more information at http://wwwots.let.ruu.nl/LOT/ws98.html. You can also contact the LOT-secretariat, (Christien Bok, LOT, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands, +31(0)30-2536006, fax. +31(0)30-2536000, LOT(a)let.ruu.nl) we will send you booklets with course-descriptions and enrollment forms. Deadline for enrollments for LOT-affiliates is November 1st, for others December 1. Enrollment for LOT affiliates are free, for others it's DFL 350, for one week, excl. lodging. * Program LOT- winterschool * -------------------------------------- First week: January 12 - 16 -------------------------------------- ** 9.30 - 12.00 ** Rita Manzini (University of Florence) The theoretical significance of Romance (subject and object) clitics= =09 Robert Beard (Lewisburgh University) Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: Is Syntax Necessary? Jurgen Meisel (Potsdam University) First and Second Language Acquisition: Similarities and Differences= =09 =09=09 ** 13.00 - 15.30 ** Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan) Sociolinguistic Issues in Bilingualsim Hans Broekhuis (Tilburg University) Minimalism and Optimality Theory: Derivations an Evaluations=09 Willem Adelaar (Leyden University) Linguistic structures of Native America =09=09 ** 16.00 - 18.30 ** Huub van den Bergh (Utrecht University) Statistics, tailor-made=09 Hans den Besten (Amsterdam University) Issues in Africaans Syntax Norval Smith (University of Amsterdam) Prosodic Morphology, with special emphasis on metathesis --------------------------------------------- Second week: January 19 - 23 --------------------------------------------- ** 9.30 -12.00 ** =09=09 Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley) Semantics of Constructions Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen University) Experimental approaches to Intonational Phonology=09 Ardi Roelofs (Max Planck Institute) Lexical access in language production =09=09 ** 13.00 - 15.30 ** =09=09 Ian Roberts (Stuttgart University) and Anna Roussou (university of Ba= ngor) Checking Theory=09 Marc van Oostendorp (Leyden University) Schwa in phonological theory=09 Frank Wijnen (Utrecht University) and Edith Kaan (MIT) Topics in sentence processing =09=09 ** 16.00 - 18.30 **=09 =09=09 Ed Keenan (University of California ) Bare Grammar=09 Renee van Bezooijen (Nijmegen University) Experimental dialectology. -------------------------------------------------------------- LOT =20 Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap =20 Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics=20 =20 Trans 10=20 3512 JK Utrecht Phone: +31 30 2536006 Fax: +31 30 2536000 --------------------------------------------------------------