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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Second call for papers for the workshop <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Conceptual Salience and Early Child Morphology <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>When: February 11-12, 2012<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Where: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vienna</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Deadline for abstract submission: September 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2011<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Workshop description<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>There are different ways in which conceptual salience may influence the acquisition of morphology. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US>For example, one of the reasons that nouns are acquired faster than adjectives is that the prototypical referents of nouns (i.e. objects) are more salient and more easily accessible to a child than relatively abstract properties denoted by adjectives. Some concepts, such as agentivity, causality, possession and number, are so salient that children may attempt to express them even before they have started acquiring the morphological form associated with that particular meaning.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>On the other hand, children are from early on highly sensitive to the distributional properties of the linguistic input addressed to them. Whereas high token frequency leads to entrenchment and storage as “chunk“, type frequency and morphotactic transparency play an important role in the recognition of analogies and the extraction of regularities between morphological patterns. Consequently, the acquisition of morphology may also influence the formation of concepts and determine which concepts would become more salient than others.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Moreover, languages may differ with respect to which specific concepts are expressed morphologically. Accordingly, a number of cross-linguistic investigations demonstrate that children’s attention is channeled towards different aspects of a situation depending on which portions of the conceptual space are grammaticized in the target language.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>We invite contributions exploring this complex relationship between the conceptual development of a child and the acquisition of morphology using a variety of state-of-the-art methods of psycholinguistic research. A special focus of the workshop will be on cross-linguistic comparisons.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>This workshop is part of the 15th International Morphology Meeting held in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vienna</st1:place></st1:City> on February 9-12, 2012</FONT><A name=_GoBack></A><FONT size=3>. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Conference URL: </FONT><A href="http://www.wu.ac.at/inst/roman/imm15/index.html"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://www.wu.ac.at/inst/roman/imm15/index.html</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Confirmed invited speakers<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>P.M. Bertinetto (<st1:City w:st="on">Pisa</st1:City>), W.U. Dressler (<st1:City w:st="on">Vienna</st1:City>), D. Ravid (Tel Aviv), U. Stephany (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cologne</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Abstract submission<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>Abstracts (max. 500 words) in MS Word should be sent to </FONT><A href="mailto:e.tribushinina@uu.nl"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">e.tribushinina@uu.nl</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3> by September 15, 2011. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>More information<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang=EN-US><FONT size=3>For further information please contact the convenors: Sabine Laaha (</FONT><A href="mailto:sabine.laaha@oeaw.ac.at"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">sabine.laaha@oeaw.ac.at</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3>) or Elena Tribushinina (</FONT><A href="mailto:e.tribushinina@uu.nl"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">e.tribushinina@uu.nl</FONT></SPAN></A><FONT size=3>).<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P> </div></body>
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