Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Important dates and information

Registration costs:

All prices are listed in Canadian dollars.

Call for papers

Major advances have been made in recent years towards explicit modelling of phonological acquisition, including increasingly sophisticated OT learning algorithms, as well as application of general machine learning techniques (e.g. expectation maximization and maximum entropy learning). At the same time, evidence of token and type frequency sensitivity in the propagation of both categorical and gradient patterns in speech has spurred growing interest in exemplar-based models of acquisition and processing. This workshop aims to bring together these two strands of research, promoting dialogue between those pursuing symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to acquisition of the sound patterns of spoken language. We invite oral and poster presentations from phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and speech scientists on this general theme. Though relevant analytic, programmatic, or experimental presentations are also welcome, priority will be given to abstracts reflecting original computational modelling results for some aspect of phonological/phonetic acquisition.

Funding: The organizers anticipate sufficient funding to cover travel and accommodation costs of all presenters whose abstracts are accepted, above and beyond the invited speakers.

Submission: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be no longer than one page (US letter or A4, 11 pt, 1 inch margins) with a second page for references, data and/or figures. Abstracts should be emailed as a PDF attachment to phonmod@ualberta.ca by the deadline: midnight (Mountain Time), November 20, 2009.

Unless the submitter indicates otherwise, the organizers will consider each abstract's suitability for oral or poster presentation. Authors should include the title, name(s), and affiliation(s) in the body of the email.

Abstract guidelines

Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be no longer than one page (US letter or A4, 11 pt, 1 inch margins) with a second page for references, data and/or figures. Abstracts should be emailed as a PDF attachment to phonmod@ualberta.ca by the deadline: midnight (Mountain Time), November 20, 2009.

Unless the submitter indicates otherwise, the organizers will consider each abstract's suitability for oral or poster presentation. Authors should include the title, name(s), and affiliation(s) in the body of the email.

Travel and accommodation

The organizers anticipate sufficient funding to cover travel and accommodation costs of all presenters whose abstracts are accepted, above and beyond the invited speakers.

To that end, upon acceptance of an abstract, the organizers will arrange flights and accommodation for all participants. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 10, 2009. We ask that all accepted presenters let us know by December 17, 2009 of their intent to attend the conference so that flights and rooms can be booked.

Invited speakers

Registration

Registration costs:

All prices are listed in Canadian dollars.

Registration forms will be available on-line by November 30, 2009.

Venue

The workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition will be held at the Telus Centre at the University of Alberta, located at 87 Avenue & 116 Street, Edmonton, Alberta. The campus map is available on-line.

Programme and abstracts

Programme details will be posted as they become available.

Visiting Edmonton

Please note: All presenters will have flights and accommodation booked by the conference organizers. See Travel and Accommodation above.

Getting to Edmonton

Hotels

Visitor information

Maps

Transportation within Edmonton

Contacts

For more information concerning the conference or its organization, please contact phonmod@ualberta.ca.