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A symposium honoring Brian MacWhinney and his influence on the fields of language acquisition and language processing will take place on June 6-8, 2019 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Workshops involving components of the TalkBank (talkbank.org) system, including CHILDES (childes.talkbank.org), will take place on June 6, and spoken presentations and poster sessions on CHILDES, TalkBanks, Emergentism, and the Competition Model on June 7th and 8th.
Workshop registration, poster submissions, and conference participation are open to all. Email questions and comments to Roman Taraban roman.taraban@ttu.edu. Co-organizers Patricia Brooks, Rick Gilmore, Vera Kempe, Ping Li, Janet McDonald. Follow us on twitter @MacWhiSymposium
Symposium Registration
Symposium registration is now closed. If you registered and have questions, email Janet McDonald psmcdo@lsu.edu.
WORKSHOPS
Registration for workshops can be completed on this link: https://goo.gl/forms/4LBbQAOZyXHycS2A3 . Email workshop questions to Rick Gilmore rick.o.gilmore@gmail.com.
POSTERS
On June 7, there will be poster presentations on issues, methods, and analyses related to TalkBanks, Emergentism, and the Competition Model. Email poster questions to Patty Brooks patricia.brooks@csi.cuny.edu.
PITTSBURGH ACCOMMODATIONS
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Wyndham University Center https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/wyndham/pittsburgh-pennsylvania/wyndham-pittsburgh-university-center/overview for June 5-9. Price is $139/night (not including taxes and fees). Mention “TalkBank Symposium” when booking your room in order to get the discounted rate. Use this link for online booking: https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/groups/hr/talkBank-symposium
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
Thursday June 6 TalkBank and CHILDES Workshops
New Methods in TalkBank - Davida Fromm – Carnegie Mellon University & Jamila Minga - North Carolina Central UniversityFluencyBank, CLASP, and AVE - Nan Bernstein Ratner – University of MarylandTalkBankDB - John W. Kowalski – Carnegie Mellon UniversityCHILDES - Alejandrina Cristia - CNRS (remote)HomeBank - Mark VanDam Washington State University & Anne S. Warlaumont UCLACHILDESdb - Michael C. Frank - Stanford University (remote)Databrary - Rick Gilmore - Penn State UniversityPhon - Yvan Rose - Memorial University of NewfoundlandDementiaBank - Michelle Bourgeois - University of South FloridaFriday June 7 (with lunchtime poster session)
Catherine Snow – Harvard University “CHILDES and TALKBANK: Contributions to extending beyond learning language to language for learning”Annick De Houwer - Universität Erfurt “Corpus based work with CHAT/CLAN: A small catalog”Elena Lieven – University of Manchester “The value of corpus data in interpreting experimental results”Kenji Sagae – University of California, Davis “Data-driven measurement of grammatical development with CHILDES”Morten H. Christiansen – Cornell University “Language acquisition as learning to process: Cross-linguistic insights from CHILDES”Nan Bernstein Ratner and Students - University of Maryland “CHILDES and FluencyBank – Kumbaya Language Science”Yvan Rose - Memorial University of Newfoundland “PhonBank data and analyses: State of the art and potential for future expansions”Florian Metze Carnegie Mellon University "The speech recognition virtual kitchen: Analyzing daylong audio recordings and more”Mark VanDam – Washington State University “Everyday speech and language development in preschoolers with hearing loss”Leanne Togher – The University of Sydney “TBI Bank – Facilitating the examination of longitudinal communication recovery data following severe TBI”Rick Gilmore Penn State University & Karen Adolph New York University “Open by design: How TalkBank inspired Databrary and paved the way for the open science movement”William O’Grady – University of Hawaii “Direct mapping”Adele E. Goldberg – Princeton University “Competition and emergence”Maryellen C. MacDonald - University of Wisconsin-Madison "The role of language production in language learning "Saturday, June 8
Ping Li – Penn State University “The second language brain: Neurocognitive and computational bases”James R. Booth – Vanderbilt University “Specialization of language processing in the young brain”Arturo E. Hernandez – University of Houston “Language, development and the bilingual brain: A neuroemergentist account”Catherine Caldwell-Harris - Boston University & Brian MacWhinney – Carnegie Mellon University "Emergent constraints on second language learning"Patricia Brooks – CUNY "Scaffolding of language development via conversational overlap"Vera Kempe – Abertay University “The role of children in the emergence of communication systems”Janet McDonald – Louisiana State University “Using the Competition Model to test language learning principles in the lab”Roman Taraban – Texas Tech University “Naïve Bayes, cue validity, and the Competition Model”Edward Gibson – Massachusetts Institute of Technology “On the inadequacy of Gibson’s 1992 review of the Competition Model”Nick Ellis – University of Michigan “SLA, statistical learning, and corpus linguistics”Helen Zhao – University of Melbourne “Applying the Competition Model to eCALL learning”Yanping Dong – Guangdong University of Foreign Studies “The emergence of the complex language skill of interpreting”Anat Prior – University of Haifa “A cognitive perspective on cross language influences”Natasha Tokowicz & Tessa Warren – University of Pittsburgh “The Competition Model and adult second language learning: The consequences of cross-language similarity on learning L2 morpho-syntax”Brian MacWhinney – Carnegie Mellon University "Closing remarks"Google Sites
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