BROCAS 2019: Bridging Research on Cognition and Speech IIT Ropar Rupnagar, Punjab, India, December 13-14, 2019

BROCAS (Bridging Research On Cognition And Speech) is a linguistics symposium organized every year at IIT Ropar with the intent of offering a platform to researchers and scholars from qualitatively different research backgrounds, including theoretical, experimental and modeling, to present their ongoing research in the fields related to Phonology and/or Language cognition.

Submission Guidelines

All abstracts of papers and posters to be presented at BROCAS must be submitted using the EasyChair system.

Formatting Guidelines

1. Identification: All abstracts must remain fully anonymous. They should not contain the names of the presenters, nor their affiliations or addresses, or any other information that may reveal their authorship. Please make sure that your files do not include your name in the metadata (document properties).
2. Number of submissions: You can submit one single-authored paper and one co-authored paper, or two co-authored ones.
3. Length: Between 250-300 words (excluding title & references). Please state the word count of your abstract at the end. Also, you are required to mention at least three keywords pertaining to your abstract.
4. Formatting:  Please note that the abstracts should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results.
   • Set the page size to A4, with 2 cm margins on all sides, single spacing and use Times New Roman 14 pts. bold for the title and 12 pts. regular for the abstract body.
   • Also, use the Leipzig glossing convention for inter-linear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses. More details on this can be found here. (Hyperlink this URL: https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php).
   • For transcriptions, please use the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). For more details, see here. (Hyperlink this URL: http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/)
   • Please use the APA (American Psychological Association) style for citations and references. More details regarding the same can be found here. (Hyperlink this URL: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx ).
5. Accepted File Formats: To make the abstracts maximally accessible to our reviewers, apart from the EasyChair requirements also attach a Portable Document Format (PDF) file during the submission procedure (Please note that you will have the option to attach a PDF file in the EasyChair abstract submission process). However, if your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to supply an editable file (e.g. MS Word or Libre Office) for us to be able to include it in the Book of Abstracts.

N.B: Only abstracts submitted through EasyChair will be reviewed. No other forms of submission (e-mail attachment, hard-copy etc.) will be entertained.

List of Topics

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Neurolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Language and Cognition

Committees

Scientific Committee

• Dr. Amalesh Gope (Tezpur University)
• Dr. Andrea Drocco (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
• Dr. Hemanga Dutta (The EFL University, Hyderabad)
• Dr. Indranil Dutta (The EFL University, Hyderabad)
• Prof. Mina Dan (University of Calcutta)
• Dr. Narayan Kumar Choudhary (CIIL, Mysore)
• Dr. Paroma Sanyal (IIT Delhi)
• Prof. Pramod Kumar Pandey (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Prof. Ramesh Kumar Mishra (University of Hyderabad)
• Dr. Samar Husain (IIT Delhi)
• Dr. Shakuntala Mahanta (IIT Guwahati)
• Dr. Shashikanta Tarai (NIT Raipur)
• Dr. Sweta Sinha (IIT Patna)
• Prof. Tatiana Oranskaia (Universität Hamburg)
• Prof. Vaijayanthi Sarma (IIT Bombay)

Coordinators

• Dr. Kamal Kumar Choudhary (IIT Ropar)
• Dr. Somdev Kar (IIT Ropar)
• Dr. Pankaj Dwivedi (CIIL Mysore)

Venue

The conference will be held in IIT Ropar, Rupnagar 140001, Punjab, India.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to brocas2019@iitrpr.ac.in

Sponsors

• Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore
• Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar