[Dgkl] Special issue: ‘Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge’ // Call for papers at Brain Research

[Johanna Funk]

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Special issue: ‘Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge’ // Call for papers at Brain Research 
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Dear colleagues,
 
We would like to draw your attention to this call for papers. The newly established research group ‘Variability in Language Use’ at the University of Marburg (GER), headed by Florian Hintz, is coordinating a special issue at Brain Research.
 
The special issue is concerned with the ‘Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge’ (see below for a more extensive summary). Deadline for the first submission is December 31, 2023.
 
Interested authors are encouraged to contact Florian Hintz (Florian.Hintz at uni-marburg.de <mailto:Florian.Hintz at uni-marburg.de>) or Johanna Funk (Johanna.Funk at uni-marburg.de <mailto:Johanna.Funk at uni-marburg.de>) for questions concerning thematic fit or issues concerning the submission process.
 
Submissions can be made at https://www.editorialmanager.com/brainres/default2.aspx. The short name of the special issue in the submission portal is ‘VSI: Linguistic knowledge’.
 
Origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge
 
In order to use language – to comprehend, produce, read, write or sign – users rely on stored linguistic knowledge at, among others, phonological, orthographic, lexical and semantic levels of representation. Acquiring stable representations during language development is key for successful use in later years. Research has shown that language users continue to acquire linguistic knowledge throughout the lifespan and that stored mental representations dynamically adjust in response to external pressures. The special issue is concerned with origins of variability in acquiring and using linguistic knowledge at any level of representation. We aim to bring together research on this topic, including empirical work as well as reviews and opinion pieces. We welcome behavioral and neurobiological work concerned with the representation and function of linguistic knowledge in individuals at any age, with a main focus on native language acquisition/processing. The overarching goal is to address the massive variability at each level of linguistic representation that exists between language users. Questions of interest are: ‘What are the contexts and factors that promote the acquisition of linguistic knowledge?’, ‘How does variability in linguistic knowledge impact language processing?’, ‘What is the link between neuronal representation and behavioral variability?’.
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