Call for Papers: Morphological Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics

[IASCL Child Language Bulletin Editor]

Apologies for multiple postings

I'm forwarding this call for papers for Dunstan Brown from the
University of Surrey. The call deadline is October 31.

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Call for papers

The Surrey Morphology Group and the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics will host a one-day workshop entitled Morphological
Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics, as part of a European
Research Council project (grant number: ERC-2008-AdG-230268
MORPHOLOGY). The workshop will be held on 28 Jan (Friday), 2011, at
the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with guest speakers Mirjam
Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University) and Alice Harris
(University of Massachussetts, Amherst).

By the term morphological complexity, we understand the extra layer of
structure that morphological systems may introduce in between meaning
and its expression, such as inflection classes or stem alternations.
This layer may operate at cross-purposes to functional distinctions,
attaining in some languages an astonishing degree of complexity. Such
phenomena are a key resource for understanding mental processes as
they represent an unconscious and yet highly structured autonomous
system. This is the second in a series of workshops exploring the
implications that morphological complexity has for various branches of
linguistics. The first, held in January 2010 at Harvard, addressed
questions of general linguistic theory. The present workshop focuses
on psycholinguistics : how does the mind cope with apparently
gratuitous morphological elaboration?

We invite proposals for 20 minute talks (plus a 10-minute question
period) on the theme of morphological complexity and
psycholinguistics. Anonymous abstracts should be no more than one
page, and should be sent as an e-mail attachment (in PDF or Word) to
morphological.complexity AT googlemail.com. The due date is October
31, 2010. In order to provide some background on the larger project,
we have made the original project position paper available on the
project website (http://www.morphology.surrey.ac.uk/). Any questions
may be addressed to m.baerman AT surrey.ac.uk.

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Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett and Dunstan Brown
Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey

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