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LINGUIST List 23.3120

Thu Jul 19 2012

Calls: Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Cognitive Sci/Ireland

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org>

Date: 19-Jul-2012
From: Juergen Trouvain <trouvaincoli.uni-saarland.de>
Subject: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
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Full Title: Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech

Date: 26-Oct-2012 - 27-Oct-2012
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Contact Person: Juergen Trouvain
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Phonetics; Pragmatics

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2012

Meeting Description:

Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007) and Berlin (2009), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Dublin in October 2012.

The studies of non-verbal vocal interaction is proving to be important in many research areas such as phonetics and discourse analysis, and also in more technology-oriented fields such as social signal processing and human behaviour understanding. Previous research has shown that laughter and other nonverbal vocalisations (e.g., breath sounds, yawning, sighing) have important functions in social interaction, for example, giving feedback, signaling engagement, and regulating turn-taking. However, much of the phonetic characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations, and the relationship between social functions and non-verbal vocalisations is still unknown.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations. The workshop will consist of invited talks, oral presentations of ongoing research and discussion papers.

The keynote speakers are Marc Mehu (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences) and Jens Edlund (KTH Stockholm).

The workshop is supported by SSPnet (http://sspnet.eu/).

Registration:

Attendees are asked to register by email trouvain (at) coli.uni-saarland.de before 1 October 2012. A registration fee of 30 Euros has to be paid on site (in cash).

Venue:

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Website:

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12

Organizers:

Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin
Juergen Trouvain, Saarland University
Khiet Truong, University of Twente

Call for Papers:

We invite research contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations from the fields of phonetics, linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, and human-machine interaction. In particular, topics related to the following aspects are very much welcomed:

- Multimodality: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, including smiles
- Entrainment and alignment: 'timing together' of non-verbal vocalisations
- Emotion/affect and social behaviour: decoding and encoding of emotion/socio-related states in non-verbal vocalisations
- Interjections and grammaticalization: relation between non-verbal vocalisations and grammaticalization
- Computational models: automatic processing of non-verbal vocalisations

Submission Procedure:

Researchers are invited to submit an abstract of their work, including work in progress. Please send your abstract of max. 2 pages (plain text) in PDF format to trouvain (at) coli.uni-saarland.de specifying 'Dublin workshop' in the subject line and providing:

1. For each author: name, title, affiliation in the body of the mail
2. Title of abstract

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 31 August 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 7 September 2012
Registration deadline by email: 1 October 2012
Workshop date: 26-27 October 2012


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