The International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP) intends to promote dissemination of state-of-the-art findings in psycholinguistics, with emphasis on research that has cross-linguistic implications and empirical work that refers to East Asian languages, following the spirit of The Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (TCP).

The Second International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-2) will be held on March 16 to 17 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The conference invites submissions of papers in any area of L1 and L2 acquisition, (bimodal) bilingual acquisition, language processing, and cognitive neuroscience of language, among others, as well as theoretical studies (in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics) that have implications for “Plato’s Problem” (“How can we gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?”).

There will be a special session on ‘Perspectives on Language Acquisition’. In light of the special session, acquisition studies from different paradigms are especially encouraged.

Conference website: https://icteap2019.github.io/

Keynote Speakers:

Mabel Rice (University of Kansas)
Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut)
Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

Invited Speakers:

Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Thomas Lee (Tianjin Normal University/Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Rosalind Thornton (Macquarie University)

Organizer:

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
email: icteap2019@163.com

Call for papers:

The conference invites submissions of papers in any area of L1 and L2 acquisition, (bimodal) bilingual acquisition, language processing, and cognitive neuroscience of language, among others, as well as theoretical studies (in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics) that have implications for “Plato’s Problem” (“How can we gain a rich linguistic system given our fragmentary and impoverished experience?”).

There will be a special session on ‘Perspectives on Language Acquisition’. In light of the special session, acquisition studies from different paradigms are especially encouraged.

Besides oral presentations, ICTEAP-2 will feature a poster session. Abstracts for both oral and poster presentations should be written in English and limited to 500 words, with one extra page to include examples, references, tables and figures. Abstracts should be anonymous and in standard 12-point Times New Roman font, with margins of 1 inch. No more than one single-authored and one co-authored abstract will be considered. Finally, all abstracts will undergo a blind review process.

Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format via the EasyChair system: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icteap2

Deadline for abstract submissions: December 10, 2018 December 20, 2018
Notification of acceptance: January 25, 2019
Conference dates: March 16-17, 2019