ESRC LADO Network
The
ESRC LADO Network is a network of researchers established through the
UK Economic and Social Research Council
grant no. RES-451-26-0911 to
Prof. Peter L.
Patrick of the University of Essex
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
and Human Rights Centre,
in order to conduct a series of Research Seminars. The theme is "Language
Analysis of Asylum Applicants: Foundations, Guidelines & Best Practice", and the
meetings are to be held in 2011-12 at the
University of Essex.
The membership of the ESRC LADO Network initially consists of the
LARG Convenors
and Advisory Panel.
The four meetings reach beyond this membership to involve a broad range of
academics and practitioners, as well as postgraduate students and young
scholars. They will assemble linguists and professionals involved in Language
Analysis for Determination of Origins (LADO),
as well as participants from legal, government, academic, NGO and other
backgrounds engaged in refugee status determination.
For more information, or to participate in a seminar,
contact Prof Peter
L Patrick
ESRC LADO Network Seminar #3: "Issues of Expertise and Recognition of
Professional Standards"
- Thurs 7 June 2012, 9am-6pm
- Information on this event to be posted in early April here.
ESRC LADO Network Seminar #1: "Data Elicitation for
LADO"
- Fri 17 June 2011, 9am-6pm.
- Information on this seminar can now be found
at this link.
ESRC LADO Network Seminar #2: "The Role of Native
Speakers in LADO"
Date & Place:
- Sat 26 Nov 2011, 9am-6pm
- University of Essex Colchester campus
-
Room 4SB.5.3, near Law and Human Rights
- See
campus map, other
local maps,
and
travel directions.
- For taxi drop-off, ask to be taken to South Towers/the
Sports Centre. Walk downhill into campus, go up stairs on right
to Square 4, turn immediately right and follow signs.
Description:
A central issue dividing the field of LADO practice is summed up in the
questions:
- What role should the concept of Native Speaker play in
developing and testing hypotheses in Language Analysis for
Determination of Origin (LADO)?
- What role should non-expert native speakers (NENS) play in
the linguistic analysis of speech data, in the context of status
determination?
This workshop will consider what the tasks required in LADO work typically
are, and what they should be. It will:
- take into account the literature on the role of NENS as
sources of data and insights in general linguistics;
- review the contributions of perceptual dialectology
research, which investigates folk linguistic views on the
categorization of language varieties, alongside findings from
- ...language attitude testing, in which NENS attempt to
characterize unknown speakers;
- consider relevant phonetic research on accent identification
and speaker recognition;
- draw on work in language attrition and complex
multilingualism;
- and consider the problematisation of the notion of
‘native speaker’, and its relevance for LADO work, in light of
its reformulation and negotiation in terms of language
expertise, affiliation and/or inheritance.
Based on these appraisals, discussion will focus on identifying common ground
and problematic areas among linguists of relevant areas, and developing a
research agenda, concerning the refinement or abandonment of the notion ‘native
speaker’ for developing and testing LADO hypotheses, as well as the abilities,
training and qualification of NENS for conducting LADO analysis, and for
appropriate collaboration between NENS and linguistic experts in LADO.
Participants
Schedule:
- 9:00am Coffee
- 9:15am Welcome: Peter L Patrick
- 9:30am Dennis
Preston: "What Native Speakers Don't Know (But Don't Know
They Don't)"
- 10:00am Jan ten Thije, discussant
- 10:15am General discussion
- 10:30am -- Coffee break
--
- 10:45am Helen Fraser: "The role
of native speakers in LADO: Are we missing a more important
question?"
- 11:15am Linda Shockey, discussant
- 11:30am General discussion
- 11:45am Monika Schmid: "Language
attrition as a problem for LADO"
- 12:15
Maaike Verrips, discussant
- 12:30
General discussion
- 12:45 -- Lunch
(provided)--
- 2:00pm Tina
Cambier-Langeveld, "Actual practice: The task at hand and
the matching expert"
- 2:30pm Paul Foulkes,
discussant
- 2:45pm General
discussion
- 3:00pm -- Coffee
break --
- 3:15pm Francis Nolan,
"Phonetic degrees of freedom: An argument for native speakers in
LADO"
- 3:45pm Gerry Docherty,
discussant
- 4:00pm General
discussion
- 4:15pm Fallou Ngom, "Enhancing the
Reliability of LADO: Examples from Fula and Wolof cases"
- 4:45pm Susan
Fitzmaurice, discussant
- 5:00pm General
discussion
- 5:15pm Peter L
Patrick, round-up discussant
- 5:45pm Peter L Patrick, Plans and
publication
- 6:00pm -- Drinks
reception --
- 7:00pm Informal
dinner in Colchester (optional)