LINGUIST List 23.405 Tue Jan 24 2012 Confs: Cognitive Science, Neuroling, Psycholing/Canada Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Jeff Mielke , Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences Message 1: Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences Date: 22-Jan-2012 From: Jeff Mielke <jmielkeuottawa.ca> Subject: Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences E-mail this message to a friend Sources of Individual Linguistic Differences Date: 02-Mar-2012 - 04-Mar-2012 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contact: Jeff Mielke Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~linglabs/indiv/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Meeting Description: This conference will explore all sources of individual differences in linguistic competence and performance, paying special attention to the role of traits associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders, of which classic Autism and Asperger's Syndrome are the clearest subgroups, and how the study of autistic and autistic-like traits can inform and be informed by the scientific study of language. Variability that is related to the Autism Spectrum is of special interest to this conference, but we also appeal for studies of interspeaker variability in other domains. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working on the linguistic consequences of individual variation, or the sources of variation, to present their current ideas and to provide a breeding ground for cross-framework and cross-disciplinary dialogues, and to ensure that each group of researchers is exposed to the state-of-the-art in adjacent fields. We hope the conference will facilitate collaboration among linguists, speech scientists, and cognitive scientists, to seek out better explanations for the nature of linguistic deficits and enhancements in different types of people, as well as to explore how better understanding of individual variation might advance linguistic theory via the investigation of variation in the fundamental (cognitive, physiological, social, etc.) underpinnings of language. Description de la Réunion: Cette conférence vise à explorer les sources des différences individuelles de compétence et de performance linguistique, en accordant une attention particulière au rôle des traits associés aux troubles du spectre autistique dont les sous-groupes les plus clairs sont l'autisme classique et le syndrome d'Asperger. Elle s'intéresse aussi à la façon dont l'étude des traits autistiques et de type autistique peut influencer l'étude scientifique de la langue et en profiter à son tour. La variabilité liée au spectre autistique est le centre d'intérêt principal de cette réunion, mais nous invitions aussi les chercheurs intéressés à la variabilité interpersonnelle dans d'autres domaines à soumettre leurs travaux. L'objectif de cette conférence est d'abord de rassembler des chercheurs qui travaillent sur les conséquences linguistiques de la variation individuelle ou sur ses causes pour leur permettre de présenter leurs idées actuelles, mais aussi de fournir un terrain fertile pour le dialogue interdisciplinaire pour permettre à chaque groupe de chercheurs de découvrir les derniers développements dans les disciplines connexes. Nous espérons que la réunion facilite la collaboration entre linguistes, chercheurs en science de la parole et chercheurs en sciences cognitives, leur permette d'en arriver à de meilleures explications pour la nature des déficits et des avantages linguistiques associées aux différents types de personnalités et facilite l'exploration de la relation entre une meilleure compréhension de la variation individuelle et la théorie linguistique grâce à l'étude de la variation linguistique dans ses fondements essentiels (cognitifs, physiologiques, sociaux..). Invited Speakers: Charles Boberg, McGill University Janis Cardy, University of Western Ontario John Connolly, McMaster University Suzanne Curtin, University of Calgary Joshua Diehl, University of Notre Dame Krista Hyde, McGill University Benjamin Munson, University of Minnesota Aparna Nadig, McGill University Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern University Peter Szatmari, McMaster University Michael Ullman, Georgetown University Alan Yu, University of Chicago Organizing Committee: Jeff Mielke, University of Ottawa Suzanne Curtin, University of Calgary Alan Yu, University of Chicago http://http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~linglabs/indiv/program_en.html Friday March 2, 2012 (morning in ARTS 509, afternoon in SIMARD 428) 8:30-9:15 Registration and Welcome (ARTS 509) 9:15-10:05 Determining linguistic competence in the non-verbal autistic child John Connolly McMaster University 10:05-10:30 Individual differences in judgments of prosodic disorder Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Melissa Redford, and Jolynn Cornell-Fabiano University of Oregon 10:30-10:55 Break 10:55-11:45 Early preferences for speech and faces as predictors of language development in infants at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder Suzanne Curtin and Athena Vouloumanos University of Calgary 11:45-12:35 Is prosody a bellwether behavior of the autism spectrum? (by videoconference) Joshua Diehl University of Notre Dame 12:35-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:20 Auditory cortical underpinnings of language impairments in autism spectrum disorder Janis Cardy University of Western Ontario 15:20-15:45 Differential Processing of Word Stress as a Predictor of Word Production at 12-months in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Jennifer Ference and Suzanne Curtin University of Calgary 15:45-16:10 The domain-generality of working memory resources for language Edward Gibson and Evelina Fedorenko Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16:10-16:30 Break 16:30-16:55 Language Generalization in Children with Autism Matt A Johnson Princeton University 16:55-17:45 Individual and group differences in declarative and procedural memory: The impact on normal and disordered language acquisition and processing Michael Ullman Georgetown University Saturday March 3, 2012 (SIMARD 425) 9:00-9:50 Individual differences in auditory processing in autism spectrum disorder: insights from behavior, the brain and genetics Krista Hyde McGill University 9:50-10:15 Autism Spectrum Conditions, dyslexia and lexical effects on speech perception Mitsuhiko Ota, Andrea I. Clark, and Mary E. Stewart University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University 10:15-10:35 Break 10:35-11:25 Effects of autistic traits on speech processing from a cross-linguistic perspective Alan Yu University of Chicago 11:25-11:50 Effects of gender, vocal attraction, and emotional reactivity on unconscious phonetic imitation Alexis Black University of British Columbia 11:50-12:15 Imitation of individual voices varying in attractiveness and stereotypicality Molly Babel, Grant McGuire, and Alice Nicholls University of British Columbia and University of California at Santa Cruz 12:15-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:50 Individual Differences in the Perception of Children's Speech Benjamin Munson University of Minnesota 14:50-15:15 Individual articulatory differences in Canadian French vowels Jeff Mielke University of Ottawa 15:15-16:05 Commentary Janet Pierrehumbert Northwestern University 16:15-18:00 Poster Session Individual phonetic differences as triggers of sound change: the case of Senćoŧen /qi/ and /iq/ sequences Sonya Bird and Bryan Gick University of Victoria and University of British Columbia The role of listeners' 'autistic' traits in the interpretation of prosody and contrastive focus Jason Bishop University of California at Los Angeles Individual differences in the development of L2 phonological processing: The contribution of cognitive abilities and executive functions Isabelle Darcy, Hanyong Park, Chung-Lin Yang, and Andrew Gleiser Indiana University and University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee The skewed input advantage: Sensitivity to learning mode Matt A Johnson Princeton University Accounting for adult variability through acquisition: an ultrasound study of North American English child /r/ Lyra Magloughlin University of Ottawa Investigating AQ score as a factor in phonetic imitation Jeff Mielke, Lyra Magloughlin, and Kuniko Nielsen University of Ottawa and Oakland University Sociolinguistic strategies and perceptions of speakers with Autism Mary Shapiro Truman State University Effects of Linguistic Experience and Hearing Loss on Speech Perception: Individual Differences under High-Variability Listening Conditions Terrin N. Tamati, Jaimie L. Gilbert, Sushma Tatineni, and David B. Pisoni Indiana University Interference 'licensing' of NPIs: Pragmatic reasoning and individual differences Ming Xiang, Julian Grove, and Anastasia Giannakidou University of Chicago 19:00-21:00 Dinner Sunday March 4, 2012 (SIMARD 425) 9:00-9:50 Individual differences in language processing within the Autism Spectrum Aparna Nadig McGill University 9:50-10:15 Pragmatic Communication and Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders - A Descriptive Pilot Study Mackenzie Salt McMaster University 10:15-10:40 Analysis of pragmatic behaviour in monolingual and bilingual adolescents with HFA and AS Marina Marukhnyak University of Toronto 10:40-11:00 Break 11:00-11:25 The interpretation of nonliteral language: cognitive factors on individual variation Mai Kuha and Elizabeth M. Riddle Ball State University 11:25-11:50 Shifting and separating: Directions in individual lifespan linguistic change Suzanne Evans Wagner and Madeline Shellgren Michigan State University 11:50-12:40 Commentary Charles Boberg McGill University 12:40-14:00 Lunch and General Discussion Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Jan-2012       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.