LINGUIST List 23.658 Wed Feb 08 2012 Calls: Writing Systems, Applied Ling, Psycholing/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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.     Kristian Berg , 8th AWLL International Workshop on Writing Message 1: 8th AWLL International Workshop on Writing Date: 07-Feb-2012 From: Kristian Berg <kristian.berguni-oldenburg.de> Subject: 8th AWLL International Workshop on Writing E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 8th AWLL International Workshop on Writing Short Title: AWLL 8 Date: 04-Oct-2012 - 05-Oct-2012 Location: Oldenburg, Germany Contact Person: Nanna Fuhrhop Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Writing Systems Call Deadline: 15-May-2012 Meeting Description: The writing systems workshops offer a forum for discussion between researchers from a range of different countries and linguistic backgrounds, working in a variety of fields of writing research such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and language education. Invited Speakers: Jonathan Grainger (University d'Aix-Marseille) Peter Eisenberg (University of Potsdam) Call for Papers: The focus of this 8th workshop is the architecture of writing systems. Especially welcome are contributions on the following questions: - Which units and principles are needed to adequately model the writing system of a given language? - How do the levels of linguistic description interact, and how can this interaction be accounted for? - How can diachronic change of a writing system best be described? - What is the best way to describe cross-linguistic differences between writing systems? - Where do models in structural-theoretical approaches and psycholinguistic approaches match, and where do they differ? - How can teaching of reading and writing profit from these models? Authors should submit abstracts of no more than 300 words (Font: Times New Roman 12, line spacing: 1.5). Speakers will have 30 minutes for their presentation, and 15 minutes for discussion and questions. Please submit abstracts electronically (rtf, pdf, doc). Contact: Nanna Fuhrhop, awll8uni-oldenburg.de Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Feb-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.