Full Title: Adverse Listening Conditions in Language Acquisition and Language Processing: A Linguistic Perspective

Date: 12-May-2025 - 13-May-2025
Location: Oldenburg, Germany
Contact Person: Marcel Schlechtweg
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2024

Meeting Description:

Individuals can be confronted with spoken language in a variety of suboptimal listening conditions. These adverse conditions can affect the processing of the target structures produced by a speaker on multiple levels. That is, it is not only the (pure) acoustic competition between the target signal and the adverse condition that possibly creates challenges for listeners, (other) linguistic (e.g., morphological, syntactic) and cognitive domains can be affected, too. Moreover, in the presence of adverse listening conditions, individuals might face fewer difficulties with some than with other linguistic structures, or some individuals have a harder time than others.

The present workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in how we acquire and process spoken language in such unfavorable conditions. Contributions should have a linguistic focus and are welcome to approach the workshop theme from various theoretical and empirical angles.

Invited speakers:
Patti Adank (University College London, UK)
Martin Cooke (Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation), Spain)
Rebecca Carroll (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)

Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be sent to [email protected] by October 31, 2024 (both pdf and word file, max. one page, 12 pt, Times New Roman, single spacing). Topics include, but are not limited to, the perception, recognition, and/or production of linguistic structures (e.g., phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic) in adverse listening conditions. Adverse listening conditions, in turn, can refer to a variety of phenomena, such as, among other things, speech-shaped or background babble noise. Furthermore, contributions are welcome to focus on specific target groups, for example, native and/or non-native speakers, monolingual and/or multilingual listeners/speakers, children and/or adults, individuals with and/or without hearing loss.