We are happy to announce that the next Psycholinguistics in Flanders will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 7-8, 2020. A pre-conference workshop will be held on May 6th titled Understanding the Publishing Process, facilitated by Prof. Shanley Allen.

Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) is an annual conference dedicated to the psychology of language.  PiF started in 2002 in Belgium and has quickly gained relevance in Europe thanks to the growing participation of international presenters and attendees.  Although it is most often held in Belgium, the Center for Cognitive Science at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany is honored to have been selected to host the conference in 2020, together with a committee of two other universities in the University of the Greater Region consortium: Université de Liège (Belgium) and Universität des Saarlandes (Germany).

The conference is targeted to PhD students and post-docs in psycholinguistics broadly defined, offering them a friendly but professional environment for presenting their research, networking, forming new collaborations, and developing future career plans. Senior scholars also attend and provide feedback, but first authors and presenters must all be junior scholars.  We welcome contributions from researchers working in psycholinguistics from different perspectives (psychological, neurocognitive, linguistic, computational), interested in various aspects of language such as reading, text comprehension, word processing, learning, speech production, and speech perception.

More information is available at https://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/psycholinguistics/pif2020/

Submission Guidelines

There is no specific limit on the number of words of any abstract, but each abstract should fit in one page A4 with 1" margins and 12pt Times New Roman font. Figures and tables are also allowed, as long as they fit in the abstract page. References should be included within the one A4 page and should follow APA format.  The template can be found at: https://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/psycholinguistics/pif2020/abstract-submissions/

Scientific Committee

Shanley Allen (TU Kaiserslautern)
Harm Brouwer (Universität des Saarlandes)
Matthew Crocker (Universität des Saarlandes)
Leigh Fernandez (TU Kaiserslautern)
Robert Hartsuiker (University of Ghent)
Gunnar Jacob (TU Kaiserslautern)
Steve Majerus (Université de Liège)
Martine Poncelet (Université de Liège)
Dominiek Sandra (University of Antwerp)
Maria Staudte (Universität des Saarlandes)

Organizing Committee

Shanley Allen (TU Kaiserslautern)
Leigh Fernandez (TU Kaiserslautern)
John Gamboa (TU Kaiserslautern)
Gunnar Jacob (TU Kaiserslautern)
Alice Johnson (TU Kaiserslautern)
Alina Kholodova (TU Kaiserslautern)
Harm Brouwer (Universität des Saarlandes)
Matthew Crocker (Universität des Saarlandes)
Maria Staudte (Universität des Saarlandes)
Steve Majerus (Université de Liège)
Martine Poncelet (Université de Liège)

Invited Speakers

Pia Knoeferle - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/Homepage__Psycholinguistics/Home.html)
Kristof Strijkers - French National Centre for Scientific Research (https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/kristof-strijkers)

Venue

TU Kaiserslautern, Building 57, Ground floor, Rotunde
Erwin-Shcrödinger-Straße 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to: pif2020@sowi.uni-kl.de

Organization and Support 

University of the Greater Region (http://www.uni-gr.eu/en)
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (https://www.uni-kl.de)
Center for Cognitive Science - TU Kaiserslautern (https://www.uni-kl.de/cognitivescience/)
TU Nachuwuchsring (https://nachwuchsring.uni-kl.de/)
Universität des Saarlandes (https://www.uni-saarland.de/)
IDEAL SFB 1102 (http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de)
Université de Liège (https://www.uliege.be/)
John Benjamins Publishing (https://benjamins.com)