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[UPDATED PROGRAMME]We are gald to announce the 3d Variamu Workshop to be held at the Speech and Language Laboratory, Aix-en-Provence, on 1 &#38; 2 October, 2015.Please find below the programme.All welcome!Looking forward to seeing youPROGRAMMEThursday October 1st09h00-09h15:     Opening                                                                 [Room A003]Laurent PrévotAix-Marseille UniversityPerspectives for Variamu09h15 – 10h15: Plenary session                                                 [Room A003]Marie-Claude ParisIUF / Paris 7Adverbial clauses in Mandarin Chinese: some aspects of their syntax and semantics with reference to French 10h15 – 10h30:   Coffee Break 10h30 – 12h00:  Session 1                                                               [Room A003]Philippe BlacheAix-Marseille UniversityChunks and properties: a new language processing architectureEmanuele ChersoniAix-Marseille UniversityDistributional data for constraint-based semantic parsingLaurent PrévotAix-Marseille UniversityQuantitative Comparative Interactional Linguistics 12h00 – 13h30: Lunch 13h30 – 15h00:  Session 2                                                [Conference Room]James Sneed GermanAix-Marseille University“Lexical” statistics for prosody: Goals and challengesChu-Ren Huang, Menghan Jiang, Jingxia LinHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityComparable Corpus Based Approach to Description and Identification of Varieties of ChineseMarco CappelliniAix-Marseille UniversityLearning French and Mandarin Chinese through Skype: some conversational variations and methodological considerations.15h00 – 15h30:   Coffee Break15h30- 17h30: Session 3                                                    [Conference Room]Grégoire de MontcheuilAix-Marseille University4-Couv : building a new treebank based on backcoversJiajuan Xiong, Qingqing Zhao, and Chu-Ren HuangHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityLinguistic Synaesthesia in ChineseFrancesca Strik LieversUniversity of Milano-BicoccaSynaesthesia across languagesChu-Ren HuangHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityA Summary of Variamu sub-projects in PolyU19h00:               Diner&#160;Friday October 2nd09h30-10h45:     Session 4                                                             [Room –A001]Cathy WongHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityVariation in progress--English loanwords and borrowings in newspaper columnists' writing in Hong Kong in the 1990s                                        (video-conference)Organisational session 1 (video-conference)10h45-11h00:     Coffee break11h00-12h30:     Session 5                                                 [Conference Room]Ana NunesUniversity of MacauConsiderations of Portuguese linguistic variation in Macau: VariAmu ProjectJasmin Sadat &#38; Serge PintoAix-Marseille UniversityCross-liguistic comparison of dysarthria in Parkisnon's disease: Cantonese vs. French12h30-14h00:      Lunch 14h00-15h30:     Organisational session                  [Conference Room]15h30-15h45:      Coffee Break15h45-17h30:     Organisational session                  [Conference Room]19h30:               Diner