Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Important dates and information

The program is now available online as a PDF.

Abstract booklet now available online as a PDF.

Online registration is now available here.

  • November 20, 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts
    • The deadline for abstract submission has now passed.
  • December 10, 2009: Participants have now been notified of acceptance
  • December 15, 2009: Accepted participants are asked to notify the conference organizers by this date of their intent to attend so that hotels and flights can be arranged
  • January 5, 2010: Early registration deadline

  • January 31, 2010: Deadline to register for the banquet dinner

  • February 13 - 14, 2010: Conference

Registration

Online registration is now available here.

University of Alberta students please contact Alison Vickerman if you would like to register.

Registration costs:

    Before January 5, 2010:

      Student: $50
      Non-student: $70

    On or after January 5, 2010:

      Student: $75
      Non-student: $100

    Banquet dinner tickets:

      $35 per person

All prices are listed in Canadian dollars.

Online registration is available here.

Please note that online registration provides two payment options: 1) Online credit card payment: You can enter your credit card information on the secure site and your registration payment will be taken care of immediately. 2) Mail-in payment option: This option allows for the registrant to mail their payment to the conference organizers or to pay in person on arrival at the conference. The cost of your registration is determined by the date we receive confirmation of your registration, regardless of payment method.

A downloadable, printable registration form (DOC, PDF) is available for those who would like to register and submit payment offline. This form may be submitted by email, mail, or fax to the following address:

Attn: Alison Vickerman
      Department of Linguistics
      4-32 Assiniboia Hall
      University of Alberta
      Edmonton, Alberta  T6G 2E7
      CANADA

      Fax: (+1) 780 492-0806
      Email: phonmod@ualberta.ca

Call for papers

The deadline for abstract submission has now passed.

Major advances have been made in recent years towards explicit modelling of phonological acquisition, including increasingly sophisticated OT learning algorithms, as well as application of general machine learning techniques (e.g. expectation maximization and maximum entropy learning). At the same time, evidence of token and type frequency sensitivity in the propagation of both categorical and gradient patterns in speech has spurred growing interest in exemplar-based models of acquisition and processing. This workshop aims to bring together these two strands of research, promoting dialogue between those pursuing symbolic and subsymbolic approaches to acquisition of the sound patterns of spoken language. We invite oral and poster presentations from phonologists, phoneticians, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and speech scientists on this general theme. Though relevant analytic, programmatic, or experimental presentations are also welcome, priority will be given to abstracts reflecting original computational modelling results for some aspect of phonological/phonetic acquisition.

Funding: The organizers anticipate sufficient funding to cover travel and accommodation costs of all presenters whose abstracts are accepted, above and beyond the invited speakers.

Submission: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be no longer than one page (US letter or A4, 11 pt, 1 inch margins) with a second page for references, data and/or figures. Abstracts should be emailed as a PDF attachment to phonmod@ualberta.ca by the deadline: midnight (Mountain Time), November 20, 2009.

Unless the submitter indicates otherwise, the organizers will consider each abstract's suitability for oral or poster presentation. Authors should include the title, name(s), and affiliation(s) in the body of the email.

Abstract guidelines

The deadline for abstract submission has now passed.

Abstracts for oral or poster presentations should be no longer than one page (US letter or A4, 11 pt, 1 inch margins) with a second page for references, data and/or figures. Abstracts should be emailed as a PDF attachment to phonmod@ualberta.ca by the deadline: midnight (Mountain Time), November 20, 2009.

Unless the submitter indicates otherwise, the organizers will consider each abstract's suitability for oral or poster presentation. Authors should include the title, name(s), and affiliation(s) in the body of the email.

Abstract booklet now available online as a PDF.

Travel and accommodation

The organizers anticipate sufficient funding to cover travel and accommodation costs of all presenters whose abstracts are accepted, above and beyond the invited speakers.

To that end, upon acceptance of an abstract, the organizers will arrange flights and accommodation for all participants. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 10, 2009. We ask that all accepted presenters let us know by December 15, 2009 of their intent to attend the conference so that flights and rooms can be booked.

Invited speakers

  • Adam Albright, MIT
  • Michael Becker, Harvard
  • Robert Daland, UCLA
  • Bruce Hayes, UCLA
  • Jeff Mielke, Ottawa
  • Elliott Moreton, UNC-Chapel Hill
  • Benjamin Munson, Minnesota
  • Janet Pierrehumbert, Northwestern
  • Alan Yu, Chicago

Venue

The workshop on Computational Modelling of Sound Pattern Acquisition will be held at the Telus Centre at the University of Alberta, located at 87 Avenue & 116 Street, Edmonton, Alberta. The campus map is available on-line.

Programme and abstracts

The program is now available online as a PDF.

Abstract booklet now available online as a PDF.

Visiting Edmonton

Please note: All presenters will have flights and accommodation booked by the conference organizers. See Travel and Accommodation above.

Getting to Edmonton

Hotels

Visitor information

Maps

Transportation within Edmonton

Contacts

For more information concerning the conference or its organization, please contact phonmod@ualberta.ca.