Saturday, July 14, 2007
9:15-5:00 PM
Cummings ART 4, Stanford University
In conjunction with the 2007 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Synopsis:
The purpose of this Workshop is to introduce (i) the promises which a Cyberinfrastructure (CI) dimension now offers to the study of Linguistics and the Language Sciences, potentially transforming the primary research process and offering new more powerful research endeavors, and (ii) the new challenges CI raises both intellectually and technically for the field. In this context, we will (iii) introduce a concrete example of a current community-based attempt to build an interdisciplinary and international virtual organization for the collaborative study of language acquisition and (iv) exemplify its development of a new generation of cybertools for both research and education.
We offer this one day workshop as a supplement to a course we are teaching at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute at Stanford University, July 2007, "Language Acquisition Methodologies and Practices: How They Alter the Pursuit of the Scientific Study of Language". The Workshop will be open both to students in the course and the broader community.