We are pleased to announce that the 2nd conference of AMLaP Asia will take place atMacao, China on April 24-26th, 2020. For more information, please visit AMLaP Asia (http://ling.cuhk.edu.hk/amlap.asia/).

Symposium: Psycholinguistics of translation and interpreting

(organized by Yanping Dong)

Pre-conference workshop (April 23rd): Practical introduction to mixed effects modelling 

(organized by Dale Barr)

AMLaP Asia was created as the Asian venue for presenting and discussing research on cognitive, neuroscientific and computational mechanisms implicated in human language processing and learning. The first AMLaP Asia conference was successfully held in 2018 at Telangana, India.

We welcome submissions of empirical findings on various aspects of language.

Topics in past AMLaP or AMLaP Asia conferences have included (but are not limited to): speech recognition and production, word recognition and production, sentence comprehension and production, discourse comprehension, dialogue, language disorder, language learning, bilingualism, language and the brain, language and cognition.

Methodologies used in past presentations have included (but are not limited to): reaction times, categorical judgement, verbal responses, eye movement, computational modelling, EEG, fMRI, PET, fNIRS, tDCS, data mining and corpus studies.

For inquiries, please email amlap.asia@cuhk.edu.hk.

Key dates

• Abstract submissions: Open Sept 1st - Dec 20th, 2019

• Feb 1st, 2020: Invitation letters

• Early registration: till Mar 30th, 2020

• Late registration: from Mar 30th, 2020

Invited Speakers

Dale Barr (University of Glasgow)

Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)

Franklin Chang (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

Ping Li (Pennsylvania State University)

Catherine McBride (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Xiaolin Zhou (Peking University)

Travel and Accommodation

The conference is going to be held in Macao, China, with the specific venue to be announced later.

We will announce more information on hotel booking once we have determined the specific venue.

Submission

Please use this link to submit your abstract: https://www.softconf.com/j/amlap-asia2020/

Programme

To come later.

Symposium and LME workshop

The psycholinguistics of translation and interpreting

Organized by Yanping Dong (Zhejiang University)

This symposium aims to bring together psycholinguistic endeavours to unravel the cognitive mechanisms and processes underlying translation and interpreting. Contributions to this symposium will be selected from submissions to the conference.

Workshop on linear/logit mixed effects models

Organized by Dale Barr (University of Glasgow)

This one-day workshop is intended as a practical introduction to conference attendees who wish to use linear/logit mixed effects models in their research. Attendees to the workshop should bring their own laptop and install R beforehand. Ideally, they should also have some basic knowledge of R.

Organizing committee

Co-chairs

Zhenguang G. Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Heeju Hwang (University of Hong Kong)

Advising committee

Matthew Crocker (Saaland University)

Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)

Chuang Wang (University of Macao)

Patrick Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Virginia Yip (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Organizing committee

Zhenguang Cai, Heeju Hwang, Chin Lung Yang, Shuting Huang, Zebo Xu

The conference is organized by

The Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

and is sponsored by the following institutions:

Faculty of Education, University of Macao

Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong

The CUHK-Peking University-University System of Taiwan Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity

The Brain and Mind Institute, CUHK

The Chinese Association of Psycholinguistics

Contact: Please send your inquiries to amlap.asia@cuhk.edu.hk.