Keynotes
- Peter Backhaus (WASEDA University, Tokyo): Communication in institutional eldercare: A Japanese perspective
[Provisional program]
Plenary speakers
- Prof. Dr. Harald Baayen: "Twenty-eight years of vowels: An investigation of changes in vowel formants and vowel duration in the Up corpus"
(Universität Tübingen / University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Dr. Susanne Gahl (UC, Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley):
"Twenty-eight years of vowels: An investigation of changes in vowel formants and vowel duration in the Up corpus
" Prof. Dr. Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University): "Being ordinary: A powerful narrative strategy when feeling vulnerable"
- Prof. Dr. Heidi Heidi E. Hamilton (Georgetown University): "Language, dementia and meaning-making in art galleries and homes: Objects of joint attention as resources for transforming knowledge, building topics and lifting spirits"
- Prof. Dr. Deborah Keller-Cohen (University of Michigan): "Pragmatic Spaces and social relations in aging"
Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University): Being ordinary: A powerful narrative strategy when feeling vulnerable
- Heather H. Dr. Heather Harris Wright (East Carolina University): "Discourse Changes with Age: Considering microlinguistic and macrolinguistic processes"
Invited speakers
Prof. Dr. David Bowie (University of Anchorage, Alaska): "The role of the individual in the development of the Western Vowel System in Utah"
Call for abstracts (closed)
- Fyndanis Valantis PhD Methods for assessing language abilities in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease University of Oslo