ISICS 2012: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IMITATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SPEECH
Aix-en-Provence, France, 3-5 September 2012
The focus of this international symposium will be the fast-growing
body of research on convergence phenomena between speakers in speech. The
symposium will also aim to assess current research on the brain and cognitive
underpinnings of imitative behavior. Our main goal will be to bring together
researchers with a large variety of scientific backgrounds (linguistics, speech
sciences, psycholinguistics, experimental sociolinguistics, neurosciences,
cognitive sciences) with a view to improving our understanding of the role
of imitation in the production, comprehension and acquisition of spoken language.