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<div><font size="3">LOT Winter School 2018</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">January 8-19, 2018</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class=""><b class="">About the LOT Winter School 2018</b></font></font></div>
<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class="">The LOT Winter School 2018 is hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) an</font><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">d organized with support from the Norwegian Graduate School
in Linguistics (LingPhil). Professors from all across the world come to the VU to offer specialized courses in their subfield. The LOT school is now open for registrations from all PhD students in Linguistics.</span></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">The focus of the current Winter School is on computational and statistical methods, with courses taught by Monique Lamers (Eyetracking in Psycholinguistics), Nivja de
Jong (Mixed models in Second Language Research), Natalia Levshina (Language Variation with R), Martijn Wieling (Statistics for Linguists), Signe Ebeling (Contrastive Corpus Linguistics), Emiel Krahmer & Albert Gatt (Models of Text Generation).</span></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">There will be in-depth courses on many other topics, ranging from language evolution to pathology and from gesture to sign language typology. These will be taught by Michael
Dunn (Language Evolution), Scott Grimm (Quantitative Semantics), Marion Elenbaas (Historical Syntax), Antje Orgassa (Language Impairments across the life span), Luigi Rizzi (Cartography), Ruben van de Vijver (Phonetics-phonology interface), Veronika Koller
(Discourse analysis), Heike Behrens (Input in First Language Acquisition), Jacomine Nortier (Aspects of Multilingualism), Alan Cienki (Spoken Language and Gesture) and Roland Pfau (Sign Language Typology).</span></font></font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">As well as these master classes, there will be discussion groups for your own PhD research, poster sessions, a public lecture by Michael Dunn and a range of social (linguistic)
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><b class="">Registration </b></font></div>
<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">Registration open until December 3rd, 2017 at: </span></font><a href="https://webmail.login.vu.nl/OWA/redir.aspx?C=X4IRAcPpUFzmhEJnBagBpzOUW8LOhB5TVw9WICFHdgIvZO9WWzDVCA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.lotschool.nl" class="" target="_blank"><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class="">www.lotschool.nl</span></font></a><font size="2" class=""><span lang="en-US" class=""> >
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