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Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft
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AG 11: Information Density and Linguistic Variation
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Frankfurt, Germany
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March 6-9, 2012
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Call For Abstracts (UPDATE)
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Submission deadline: July 18, 2011
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Description: In recent years, there has been growing interest in
linguistic complexity in various
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areas of linguistics, including grammatical theory (Hawkins 2004),
diachronic linguistics (e.g., Dahl
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2004), phonetics (e.g., Chitoran et al. 2009), psycholinguistics
(e.g., Jaeger 2010) as well as
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sociolinguistics (Trudgill 2011). While this has brought many new
insights into selected aspects of
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language, we still do not have a conclusive picture of the role(s)
linguistic complexity plays or
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should play in linguistic theory and in modeling linguistic
processes. There are various perspectives
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from which linguistic complexity can be approached, including
entropy, emergence, optimality or
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adaptivity. In the planned workshop, we propose to focus on the
perspective of information density
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(Levy & Jaeger, 2007) -- the average amount of information in a
text or utterance as determined by its
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predictability -- and to explore its relation to one of the central
features of the linguistic system,
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namely, variation. We would like to address questions of the
following kind: To what extent is
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linguistic variation governed by a desire for constant information
density, thus putting limits on
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linguistic variation? In which ways is linguistic variation a
precondition to (optimal) information
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density? How does information density at different linguistic levels
(grammatical, phonological, etc)
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influence the options in the linguistic system within and across
languages?
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The workshop is intended to bring together scholars from different
areas of linguistics, including
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syntax, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, computational
linguistics, contrastive linguistics,
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language typology, corpus linguistics (and others) who work on the
relation of linguistic variation
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and linguistic complexity/ information density.
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Chitoran, I., Ch. Coupe, E. Marsico & F. Pellegrino (eds.)
(2009): Approaches to phonological
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complexity. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Dahl, Oe. (2004): The growth and maintenance of linguistic
complexity. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Hawkins, John A. (2004): Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Jaeger, T.F. (2010): Redundancy and reduction: Speakers manage
syntactic information density.
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Cognitive Psychology 61. 23-62.
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Levy, R. & T.F. Jaeger (2007): Speakers optimize information
density through syntactic reduction.
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Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information
Processing Systems.
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Trudgill, P. (2011): Sociolinguistic typology. Sociolinguistics
determinants of linguistic
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complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Invited speakers
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John Hawkins (Cambridge/UC Davis)
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Harald Baayen (Alberta)
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Important Dates
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Abstract submission deadline: July 18, 2011
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Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2011
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Submission of final abstract: October 20, 2011 (NEW DATE!)
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DGfS 2012 Conference: March 6-9, 2012
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Requirements
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Abstracts should be 300-400 words (1 page) and may contain
additional material, such as examples,
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figures and references on another page. Altogether submission should
be no longer than 2 pages. As
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reviewing will be double blind, the paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations.
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Submission Information
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All submissions must be submitted electronically as PDF and sent by
e-mail to:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:d.schreyer@mx.uni-saarland.de">d.schreyer@mx.uni-saarland.de</a>
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putting 'DGFS 2012 AG11' in the subject line.
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The deadline for submission is July 18, 2011.
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Organization
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Matthew Crocker, Bernd Moebius, Elke Teich (Saarland University)
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Program Committee
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Artemis Alexiadou
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Harald Baayen
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Miriam Butt
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Matthew Crocker
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Vera Demberg
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Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
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Caroline Fery
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Jonathan Harrington
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Florian Jaeger
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Frank Keller
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Roger Levy
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Anke Luedeling
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Bernd Moebius
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Ingo Reich
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Elke Teich
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Shravan Vasishth
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