CLARe6 2024
LANGUAGE ♦ CHANGE ♦ INTERACTION ♦ AGING
CLARe conferences are dedicated to bringing researchers together who are interested in language and aging research. Our aim is to promote an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach to language use in later life across the fields of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, psychology, sociology, as well as healthcare, nursing, and in particular with older speakers.
The Sixth International Conference on Corpora for Language and Aging (CLARe6) targets the following themes:
- Language use in later life: Our focus is on an interdisciplinary approach to language use in later life across the fields of psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, psychology, sociology, as well as healthcare and nursing, with a particular focus on older speakers.
- Language contact across the lifespan: The role of language contact in the community has been well-studied, yet much work still needs to be done on the impact of language contact across the lifespan, and specifically with older speakers, including retrograde change and age-grading.
- Interactional studies of language and aging: Much work has been carried out on real-time, longitudinal language change, however, little attention has been paid to changes in communicative interaction with older speakers with respect to discourse, communication, and dementia.
- Cognitive processing and aging: Cognitive functioning has been shown to correlate with lexical and syntactic complexity; however, results have been inconclusive. More research is needed with respect to the interaction between language use and cognitive decline.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Harald Baayen, University of Tübingen Karen Beaman, University of Tübingen David Bowie, University of Alaska Isabelle Buchstaller, University of Duisburg-Essen Lars Bülow, University of Munich Annette Gerstenberg, University of Potsdam
For questions, please contact:clare6@language-aging-research.org
DATE
April 10-12, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW CLOSED!
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN SOON!
Earlybird: €50; After Feb 1: €75LOCATION
The conference will be held in the university town of Tübingen in southwest Germany in the Alte Aula, erected ca. 1547. It served as the main building of the university for 300 years, until 1845.
Did you know? Alois Alzheimer studied in Tübingen in the years 1886/87. In 1906, during the meeting of the Society of Southwest German Psychiatrists in Tübingen, he first described "the clinical and pathological features of an unusual brain disease" (Cipriani et al. 2011:275), which in 1910 was named Alzheimer's disease.
CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will be held in hybrid format: onsite and online. We actively encourage onsite participation, but we will also stream all presentations online using the Gather Town platform. Online participation is offered to those who cannot reach Tübingen by train and who seek to avoid adding more carbon to the environment with transcontinental flights.
Click here for more details on the presentation and poster formats and on the online Gather Town conference platform.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Coming soon
CONFERENCE MATERIALS
Coming soon
ACCOMMODATIONS
We have reserved a limited number of comfort double rooms at Ibis Accor Hotel. Click here for a list of several hotels in Tübingen.
WELCOME RECEPTION
Meet us and your colleagues on Wednesday, April 10, for a warm welcome at The Museum of Ancient Cultures in the Hohentübingen Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site!
CONFERENCE DINNER
Join us and your colleagues for dinner on Thursday, April 11, at Landgut Kemmler in Wankheim. Bus transportation provided. Guests welcome! €50 per person.
SPAZIERGANG/WALKING TOUR
We're also organizing a gemütlicher Spaziergang 'leisurely walking tour' for Friday afternoon, 15.30-17.30, to the monastery and town of Bebenhausen. Bus transportation provided. €15 per person.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AGING AND RESEARCH
You may be interested in publishing your research in the Journal of Language Aging and Research.
Please contact us at journal@language-aging-research.org
Important Dates
Find us on the Sociolinguistic Events CalendarAbstracts due
1 November, 2023
(Midnight, GMT-12)
Notification of acceptance
1 December, 2023
Early bird registration closes
1 February, 2024
Conference
10-12 April, 2024
Call for Abstracts: CLOSED
We welcome proposals for presentations and posters dealing with issues related to language and aging. For this sixth CLARe conference, we invite abstracts that address the following themes:
- Language use in later life: Our focus is on an interdisciplinary approach to language use in later life across the fields of psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, psychology, sociology, as well as healthcare and nursing, with a particular focus on older speakers.
- Language contact across the lifespan: The role of language contact in the community has been well-studied, yet much work still needs to be done on the impact of language contact across the lifespan, and specifically with older speakers, including retrograde change and age-grading.
- Interactional studies of language and aging: Much work has been carried out on real-time, longitudinal language change; however, little attention has been paid to changes in communicative interaction with older speakers with respect to discourse, communication, and dementia.
- Cognitive processing and aging: Cognitive functioning has been shown to correlate with lexical and syntactic complexity; however, results have been inconclusive. More research is needed with respect to the interaction between language use and cognitive decline.
Abstracts should be submitted anonymously with a maximum of 500 words (not including references). A second page may be used to present relevant figures and tables. The abstract should clearly state how the paper will contribute to the themes of the conference. It should also provide a clear statement of the aims of the research, including the research question(s), some details about the methods used, and an overview of the results.
Deadline for submissions: CLOSED
Presentation guidelines
The conference will be held in hybrid format, both onsite and online.
Please see the Conference Format page for more details about the onsite and the online format.
Online access can be tested two days before the conference. More information on this will be published soon on this page.
Talks
Talks will presented onsite and simulatneously streamed in the Gather Town lecture hall. Each talk is 15 minutes, leaving 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Speakers can use their own laptops (active with Gather Town) or the conference laptop.
Posters
Posters will be presented onsite and simultantously streamed in the Gather Town poster hall. Posters should have the aspect ratio of A0 in portrait mode. Please send posters to clare6@language-aging-research.org as a PDF file before April 8, 2024.
Prior CLARe Conferences
CLARe6 Contacts
For inquiries, please email us at: clare6@language-aging-research.orgHotels in Tübingen
ibis Styles Tübingen
Friedrichstraße 20, 72072 Tübingen +49 7071 75880 smile@ibisstyles-tuebingen.com website
Hotel Barbarina
Wilhelmstraße 94, 72074 Tübingen +49 7071 26048 info@hotel-barbarina.de website
Hotel Meteora
Weizsäckerstraße 1, 72074 Tübingen +49 7071 9709020 info@hotel-meteora.de website
Hotel Alte Krone
Kreuzstraße 21, 72074 Tübingen +49 7071 98850 info@alte-krone-tuebingen.de website