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Plenary Speakers

33rd International LAUD Symposium
Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing:
Theory and Pedagogy

March 10 – 13, 2008
Landau/Pfalz (Germany)

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Melissa Bowerman Language acquisition and semantic typology
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Melissa.bowerman@mpi.nl
http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/People/Distinguishedspeakers/bowerman.melissa.htm

Nick Ellis Constructing a second language: Learning as a function of frequency,
frequency distribution, form & function

University of Michigan, USA
ncellis@umich.edu
http://web.mac.com/ncellis/iWeb/Nick%20Ellis/Home.html

Helen Fraser Cognitive theory as a tool for teaching pronunciation
University of New England, Armidale, Australia
hfraser@une.edu.au
http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~hfraser/

Susan Gass Interaction: From description to explanation
Michigan State University, USA
gass@msu.edu
http://www.msu.edu/~gass/

Jeannette Littlemore ‘He’s got a bit of a loose nappy’ Figurative thinking and foreign language learning: Metaphor and metonymy in institutional discourse
University of Birmingham, UK
j.m.littlemore@bham.ac.uk
http://www.cels.bham.ac.uk/staff/littlemore.htm

Peter Robinson Task complexity, intentional reasoning demands, L2 speech production, learning and syllabus design
Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya, Tokyo
peterr@cl.aoyama.ac.jp
http://www.cl.aoyama.ac.jp/~peterr/robinson.html

John Taylor Language in the mind
University of Otago, New Zealand
john.taylor@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Linguistics/staff/taylor.html

Andrea Tyler Applied cognitive linguistics: Putting linguistics back into second language learning and teaching
Georgetown University, USA
tyleran@georgetown.edu
www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/tyleran/

 

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