FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

"From Letter to Sound"

Third International Workshop on Writing Systems
University of Cologne, Germany, September 23-24, 2002.


This workshop is the third in a row of international meetings dealing with 
questions of writing systems. The two predecessors took place at the Max 
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands) under the 
titles 'What Spelling Changes' (1997) and 'Writing Language' (2000). The 
workshops offer a forum of discussion between researchers from different 
fields of writing research like theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, 
computational linguistics or language education, coming from different 
countries and working on different languages.
The aim of this workshop is to focus on the letter-to-sound-perspective. 
Especially welcome are contributions to the following subjects:

- How does a theory of orthography have to look like that takes written 
forms as basic (as opposed to a theory that derives written forms from 
spoken forms)?

- Which aspects of the psycholinguistics of reading are capable of 
explaining the form of writing systems?

- Which aspects of learning to read are informative for a theory of 
orthography?

- How can reading be modelled? Both psycholinguistic models and 
computational models for text-to-speech-synthesis may reveal the exact 
relation between reading and writing.

Submission deadline: March 28, 2002
Notice of acceptance: May 17, 2002


INVITED SPEAKERS:
Charles Perfetti (University of Pittsburgh) (sponsored by the Flemish 
Funding Agency for Scientific Research, Scientific Research 
Community on the theme 'Psycholinguistics: the Processes of Reading 
and Writing')
Richard Venezky (University of Delaware)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Martin Neef (German Department, University of Cologne)
Anneke Neijt (Dutch Department, University of Nijmegen)
Beatrice Primus (German Department, University of Cologne)
Dominiek Sandra (Dutch Department, University of Antwerp)


FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS:
Authors should submit abstracts of max. 2 pages for 30 minute 
presentations, with 15 minutes discussion. Please submit abstracts 
electronically (rtf, pdf or Word) to [](<https://web.archive.org/web/20050519221857/mailto:>)


PARTICIPATION:
In addition to the speakers, we kindly invite researchers who want to 
attend the workshop without presenting a paper themselves. The latter 
participants should register for the workshop at the address above. 
Information on lodging and travel directions, the program and the abstracts 
of the accepted papers will be circulated among the participants 
electronically well before the workshop.


FURTHER INFORMATION: Martin Neef: [](<https://web.archive.org/web/20050519221857/mailto:>)
 Anneke Neijt: [](<https://web.archive.org/web/20050519221857/mailto:>)   ---