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Directory         1.     Noel Nguyen , International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech Message 1: International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech Date: 11-Dec-2011 From: Noel Nguyen <isics2012lpl-aix.fr> Subject: International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech Short Title: ISICS 2012 Date: 03-Sep-2012 - 05-Sep-2012 Location: Aix-en-Provence, France Contact Person: Noel Nguyen Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Psycholinguistics Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2012 Meeting Description: In the course of a conversational interaction, the behavior of each talker often tends to become more similar to that of the conversational partner. Such convergence effects have been shown to manifest themselves under many different forms, which include posture, body movements, facial expressions, and speech. Imitative speech behavior is a phenomenon that may be actively exploited by talkers to facilitate their conversational exchange. It occurs, by definition, within a social interaction, but has consequences for language that extend well beyond the temporal limits of that interaction. It has been suggested that imitation plays an important role in speech development and may also form one of the key mechanisms that underlie the emergence and evolution of human languages. The behavioral tendency shown by humans to imitate others may be connected at the brain level with the presence of mirror neurons, whose discovery has raised important issues about the role that these neurons may fulfill in many different domains, from sensorimotor integration to the understanding of others' behavior. The focus of this international symposium will be the fast-growing body of research on convergence phenomena between speakers in speech. The symposium will also aim to assess current research on the brain and cognitive underpinnings of imitative behavior. Our main goal will be to bring together researchers with a large variety of scientific backgrounds (linguistics, speech sciences, psycholinguistics, experimental sociolinguistics, neurosciences, cognitive sciences) with a view to improving our understanding of the role of imitation in the production, comprehension and acquisition of spoken language. The symposium is organized by the laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France (www.lpl.univ-aix.fr). It will be chaired by Noël Nguyen (LPL) and Marc Sato (GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble), and will be held in the Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences Humaines. Invited Speakers: Luciano Fadiga, University of Ferrara, Italy Maëva Garnier, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Beatrice Szczepek Reed, University of York, United Kingdom Call for Papers: Papers are invited on the topics covered by the symposium. Abstracts not exceeding 2 pages must be submitted electronically and in .pdf format by 15 April 2012. They will be selected by the Scientific Committee on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the symposium. Notifications of acceptance/rejection will be sent to the authors by 31 May 2012. Important Dates: 15 April 2012: Abstract submission deadline 31 May 2012: Notification of acceptance/rejection 30 June 2012: Early registration deadline Scientific Committee: Patti Adank, University of Manchester, UK Martine Adda-Decker, laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris, France Gérard Bailly, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France Roxane Bertrand, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France Ann Bradlow, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA Jennifer Cole, Department of Linguistics, Urbana-Champaign, USA Mariapaola D'Imperio, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France Laura Dilley, Department of Psychology and Linguistics, Michigan State University, USA Sophie Dufour, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France Carol Fowler, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, USA Jonathan Harrington, University of Munich, Germany Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York, USA Holger Mitterer, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lorenza Mondada, laboratoire ICAR, Lyon, France Kuniko Nielsen, Oakland University, Rochester, USA Noël Nguyen, laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh, UK Marc Sato, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France Jean-Luc Schwartz, GIPSA-Lab, Grenoble, France Véronique Traverso, laboratoire ICAR, Lyon, France Sophie Wauquier, Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Dec-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.