STEP2023 – CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics
The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop on current issues and methods in psycholinguistics.
STEP 2023 will be held from June 12-17 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (also online/hybrid, see below)
Advancing the methodological skills and conceptual prowess of students of linguistics and psycholinguistics since 2014, the Spring School is directed at postdoctoral fellows, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection, and analysis using experimental and statistical methods.
Courses
On campus only:
- A short overview and introduction to statistics and R, Kasandra Calkins and Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher, University of Alberta
- Introduction to Bayesian modelling, Scott James Perry, University of Alberta
- Introduction to mixed-effect modelling with lme4, Adriana Soto-Corominas & Scott James Perry, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and University of Alberta
- Corpus-linguistic text processing with R, Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara & JLU Giessen *Enrolment capped at 25*
- Methodological approaches to language and aging, Victor Kuperman, McMaster University
- Taking psycholinguistic methods to the field, Carolyn O’Meara, UNAM
Hybrid/online:
- Discriminative learning and the lexicon: NDL and LDL, Harald Baayen, Yu-Ying Chuang, and Maria Heitmeier, University of Tübingen
- PsychoPy 101: A crash course on building customized experiments, Veranika Puhacheuskaya, University of Alberta
Fees: $350+GST for in-person students. The workshop fee covers instructor accommodation and travel, and includes attendance, workshop materials, tea/coffee, light snacks and lunches (for 6 days). For online attendees, there's a nominal fee of $25+GST per course.
Registration: go to https://ccp.artsrn.ualberta.ca/step/
For questions, please email ccpling@ualberta.ca or jarvikivi@ualberta.ca
