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Date: 04-Aug-2022 - 05-Aug-2022

Location: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

Contact Person: Fatih Bayram

Web Site: https://www.isbpac.org/

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2022

Meeting Description:

The Aurora Center for Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition (AcqVA Aurora) at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway is pleased to invite you to the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2022) on August 4th and 5th, 2022.

ISBPAC aims to bring together researchers who investigate bi-/multilingualism from various disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, multimodal communication, and language pedagogy, addressing language acquisition and processing in any domain of language as well as the neurocognition and neurobiology of bi-multilingualism.

Gigi Luk, McGill University

Viorica Marian, Northwestern University

Eleonora Rossi, University of Florida

Zofia Wodniecka, Jagiellonian University

The symposium welcomes submissions for all types of bi/multilinguals related to linguistic acquisition and processing and for studies examining the role bi/multilingualism plays in (neuro)cognition. This includes early and late bilinguals, L2 and Ln learners, all domains of language(syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, the lexicon and discourse/pragmatics, and their interfaces) and language related neurocognition, employing on-line (e.g. self-paced reading or listening, eye tracking, ERPs, neuroimaging techniques) and off-line methods. The topics are but not limited to:

- Morphological, syntactic, phonetic, phonological, lexical processing

- Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual speech production and comprehension

- Code-switching

- Cognitive consequences of bi-/multilingualism

- Language processing in attrition

- Implications of bi-/multilingual language processing for teaching

- Neuroscientific studies of bilingual processing

- Multimodal language and communication

We accept submissions for poster and/or talks.

- Abstract title visible (preferably centered at top of page, in bold, in sentence case).

- Abstracts should be no more than 500 words maximum (Times New Roman size 12, title in bold) with one additional page for examples, tables, figures and (selected) references.

- Please make the abstract fully anonymous: authors’ names, affiliations, or pictures should not be indicated anywhere in the document.

- Please submit your abstract via EasyChair here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbpac2022

Conference: August 4 and 5, 2022

Abstract Submission: online platform opens January 15, 2022 – March 1, 2022

Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2022

Registration: May 1, 2022 opens

Early Bird Registration: May 1, 2022 – June 15, 2022

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Please direct any questions about the conference to Maki Kubota and/or Fatih Bayram: isbpac2022@gmail.com

Five such awards will be awarded for in person attendance at this conference.This award is funded by the AcqVA AURORA Center and is meant to assist students who are interested in attending ISBPAC2022 by offsetting some of their expenses with a stipend of up to 5000 NOK.

Preference is given to applicants with the greatest financial need. Both PhD and MA students are encouraged to apply. Once the submission portal is open, we will have a question indicating whether you would like to be considered for this Student Award when submitting your abstract and space for you to indicate your need, e.g. the extent to which you are eligible for some or no funding from your home institution.