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Directory         1.     Monica Gonzalez-Marquez , Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Message 1: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Date: 17-Nov-2010 From: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez <mgonzalecit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> Subject: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 E-mail this message to a friend Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 5.1 Short Title: EMCL 5 Date: 06-Mar-2011 - 11-Mar-2011 Location: Freiburg, Germany Contact: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez Contact Email: mgonzalecit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Meeting URL: http://https://sites.google.com/site/emcl5freiburg/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics Meeting Description: The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. Format: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands- on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. Topics to be covered include, - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience Workshop Faculty Group 1: Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit. Interests: cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, spoken language, gesture, political discourse, contrastive linguistics. http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed- alphabetically/staff-a-d/dr-a-cienki/index.asp Group 2: Kenny Coventry, Northumbria University. Interests: language and perception, spatial language, embodiment, decision making. http://kenny.coventry.googlepages.com/home Katharina Rohlfing, Bielefeld University. Interests: emergentist semantics, early literacy, human-machine interaction, rhetoric and communication. https://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~rohlfing/website/data/index.html, http://www.cit-ec.de/es Group 3: Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg. Interests: theoretical, empirical, and computational psycholinguistics, eye-movements research, reading, spoken language comprehension in the Visual-World-paradigm, spatial reasoning and wayfinding, cognitive modeling, embodied cognition. http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/Members/konieczny Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Interests: lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics, acquisition of semantics, language and cognition. http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ Group 4: Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego. Interests: conceptual blending, joke comprehension, metaphor, analogical reasoning, concept combination, sentence processing. http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Panos Athanasopoulos, Bangor University. Interests: bilingualism and cognition, language and thought, emotion, language acquisition, conceptual development. http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/about/panos.php.en Group 5: Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Hamburg. Interests: encoding of motion events, second language research, construction grammar, quantitative corpus linguistics, metaphor, negative evidence. http://www1.uni hamburg.de/stefanowitsch/ This workshop is supported by the FRIAS at Freiburg University (http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/), the research training group (GRK DFG 1624/1) Frequency Effects in Language (http://frequenz.uni- freiburg.de/abstract&language=de), and the DFG (www.dfg.de). Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell University Martin Hilpert, University of Freiburg Raymond Becker, Bielefeld University Lars Konieczny, University of Freiburg Application: To apply, please send the following by December 15, 2010. All materials must be submitted electronically to emcl5.freiburg (at) googlemail.com Please write 'application' in the subject line. 1. A maximum of two (2) pages, (1000 words), describing, - your background, - your reasons for wanting to participate, - the research group you would like to work in and why. Please include in this section a brief description of your research interests. All topics listed above must be addressed. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. 2. A copy of your curriculum vitae. The application deadline is December 15, 2010 Accepted applicants will be notified on or before January 15, 2011 This workshop is supported by: the FRIAS at Freiburg University http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/ the Research training group (GRK DFG 1624/1) Frequency effects in language http://frequenz.uni-freiburg.de/abstract&language=de and the DFG (pending). www.dfg.de 2 (two) tuition scholarships will be awarded by lottery to students traveling from Eastern Europe and 3rd world countries. Please state in your application whether you would like to be included in the lottery. Please note: Attendance is strictly limited to invited participants. No exceptions will be made so as to preserve pedagogical integrity. EMCL 5.2 will be held in Chicago, USA, June 2011 with a different set of faculty. That notice will follow in January, 2011. 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