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(Dis)Fluency2017 : Fluency and disfluency across languages and language
varieties
15-17 February 2017
University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Fluency and disfluency have attracted a great deal of attention in
different areas of linguistics such as language acquisition or
psycholinguistics. They have been investigated through a wide range of
methodological and theoretical frameworks, including corpus linguistics,
experimental pragmatics, perception studies and natural language
processing, with applications in the domains of language learning,
teaching and testing, human/machine communication and business
communication.
Spoken and signed languages are produced and comprehended online, with
typically very little time to plan ahead. As a result, they are often
characterized by features such as (filled and unfilled) pauses,
discourse markers, repeats and self-repairs, which can be said to
reflect on-going mechanisms of processing and monitoring. The role of
these items is ambivalent, as they can both be a symptom of encoding
difficulties and a sign that the speaker is trying to help the hearer
decode the message. They should thus be interpreted in context to
identify their contribution to fluency and/or disfluency, which can be
viewed as two faces of the same phenomenon.
Within the frame of a research project entitled “Fluency and disfluency
markers. A multimodal contrastive perspective” (see
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-415256.html), the universities of Louvain and
Namur have been involved in a large-scale usage-based study of
(dis)fluency markers in spoken French, L1 and L2 English, and French
Belgian Sign Language (LSFB), with a focus on variation according to
language, speaker and genre. To close this five-year research project,
an international conference will be organized in Louvain-la-Neuve on the
subject of fluency and disfluency across languages and language
varieties.
The conference aims at bringing together scholars and researchers from
different disciplines in order to discuss and confront different
conceptions and perspectives on fluency and disfluency, in both spoken
and sign languages. We particularly welcome abstracts for oral or poster
presentations on the following topics :
- theoretical insights gained from the study of fluency and disfluency ;
- methodological issues raised by the investigation of (dis)fluency
markers ;
- acquisitional perspectives on (dis)fluency and pedagogical
implications ;
- contrastive analyses of (dis)fluency markers ;
- variationist approaches to fluency and disfluency ;
- (dis)fluency in the Sign Language of native, near-native and late
signers ;
- applications of fluency research (NLP, testing, etc.)
Keynote Speakers :
Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh
Sandra Götz, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
Helena Moniz, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering : Research
and Development, Lisbon
David Quinto-Pozos, The University of Texas at Austin
Abstracts (1000 words, excluding references) should be submitted via
Easy chair at the following address :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disfluency2017
Important dates :
- Deadline submission of abstracts : 15 September 2016
- Notification of acceptance : 31 October 2016
- Early-bird registration : 30 November 2016
- Deadline registration : 15 January 2017
Scientific committee
Nicolas Ballier (Université Paris Diderot)
Roxane Bertrand (Université Aix-Marseille)
Philippe Blache (Université Aix-Marseille)
Catherine Bolly (Universität zu Köln)
Hans Rutger Bosker (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Maria Candéa (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris)
Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain)
Nivja de Jong (Utrecht University)
Robert Eklund (Linköping University)
Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark)
Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain)
Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya (University of Michigan, USA)
Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot)
Pascale Goutéraux (Université Paris Diderot)
Heather Hilton (Université de Lyon 2)
Judit Kormos (University of Lancaster)
Anne Lacheret (Université Paris Ouest)
Bertille Pallaud (Université Aix-Marseille)
Laurent Prévot (Université Aix-Marseille)
Helmer Strik (Radboud Universiteit)
Parvaneh Tavakoli (University of Reading, UK)
Gunnel Tottie (University of Zurich)
Mieke Van Herreweghe (Universiteit Gent)
Ioana Vasilescu (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris)
Myriam Vermeerbergen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Organizing committee
Liesbeth Degand (UCL)
Cédrick Fairon (UCL)
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCL)
Sylviane Granger (UCL)
Laurence Meurant (UNamur)
Anne Catherine Simon (UCL)
George Christodoulides (UCL)
Ludivine Crible (UCL)
Amandine Dumont (UCL)
Iulia Grosman (UCL)
Ingrid Notarrigo (UNamur)
Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen (UCL & Université de NeuchÂtel)