Salos 2024 summer school: Linguistic data from fieldwork to R

Host Institution: Vilnius University
Website: https://www.academiasalensis.org/en/conference-and-summer-school/2024-summer-school/

Dates: 22-Jul-2024 - 26-Jul-2024
Location: Salos

Focus: Our courses are tailored primarily to PhD students while remaining open to advanced MA and Postdocs as well as senior scholars. Lecturers will assign preparatory reading to participants.
The curriculum of Salos 2024 should be attractive to linguists interested in collecting and analysing natural language data. The courses offer fundamental tools for working with linguistic data applicable to any linguistic inquiry. Therefore, we welcome participants from all frameworks of theoretical linguistics.
Minimum Education Level: BA / MA

Description:
Linguists from different theoretical frameworks strive to ground and test their hypotheses using empirical data from natural languages. This raises the need for sound methodological foundations underlying every step of the research process. Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima Prima adopts a practical approach and aspires to encompass the data processing pipeline from raw data collected in the fieldwork setting to quantitative results. The summer school is designed to equip participants, primarily PhD students, with the essential tools for conducting data-driven research, focusing on critical phases that are seldom integrated into a single cohesive workflow: fieldwork, data collection (various types and formats), data processing and annotation, and statistical analysis.

The curriculum of the summer school emulates the journey of linguistic data from field to R (the programming language and statistics software often used by linguists), and is structured to guide participants systematically through the initial practical stages of the research process:

1. Linguistic Fieldwork. Lecturer: dr. Maria Khachaturyan, University of Helsinki
2. Data annotation. Lecturer: dr. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3. Quantitative methods. Lecturer: dr. Steven Moran, Université de Neuchâtel

Participants of the linguistic fieldwork course will have the possibility to get some hands-on experience with data collection, which will also be made use of in the subsequent courses. The summer school places significant emphasis on the coherence between the three courses, achieved through resurfacing topics, the same exemplary case studies and data sets, facilitated by the collaborative efforts of the course lecturers.

Every day at the summer school will end with a group tutoring session. Here, participants will have a chance to raise questions and engage in discussions on the most challenging parts of the courses, guided by an experienced colleague.

Another distinctive feature of the summer school is its integration with the Salos Linguistics Conference which will be held on the last day of the Summer School. Participants will have the opportunity to submit a poster for the dedicated poster session held within the conference. They are also welcome to submit an abstract for the Academia Grammaticorum Salensis conference and will be considered alongside other applicants for a talk, or can attend the conference as attendees without a presentation.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Typology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Tuition: 250.0 Euro
Tuition Explanation: The participation fee is reduced to 220 Eur for MA students & members of the “Academia Salensis” association.

The participation fee includes:
- 3 courses (4 lectures each) and 4 tutoring sessions;
- accommodation at the manor;
- full board (three meals per day);
- coffee breaks;
- opening & closing receptions;
- transportation by bus from & to Vilnius (21 and 27 July).

Registration Open until 15-Apr-2024

Email: [email protected]

Apply on the web: https://tinyurl.com/salos2024applicationform

Registration Instructions:
The number of participants is limited, so a selection process will be in place in the event of a large number of applicants. To assist us in this process, we ask that you provide a statement of your motivation for wanting to participate in the summer school, including how its program aligns with your current research project. Apply before the 15th of April by filling out the questionnaire. We will let you know if you have been selected on the 30th of April at the latest.