<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues,<br class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">in a project on the syntactic behavior of adverbials in German</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">, Tibor Kiss, Jutta Pieper and I follow an experimental linguistic approach<span lang="EN-US" class=""> (for more information, visit us on our </span><a href="https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/theo-und-comp-ling/en/projekte/position-und-interpretation-adverbialer-ppen-im-deutschen-satz/" style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">website</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="">)</span>. In conducting different acceptability studies (Forced Choice, Likert Scales, Sentence Fragment Arrangement), we came across various problematic aspects in experimental practice, ranging from questions of concrete limitations of factorial designs to debates concerning an adequate method-specific statistical analysis. These challenges are not restricted to acceptability judgments, rather, they are very general in nature.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">The project is funded by the German Research Association (DFG) and will come to its official end by the end of July, 2020. In light of the various problematic aspects, we are organizing a conference with the title </span><a href="https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation/" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">The Limits of Experimentation - Current Challenges in Experimental Linguistic Practice</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">. The purpose of the conference is to bring together experimental researchers working in different strands and different linguistic sub-disciplines or related areas where each individual proposal attacks important theoretical and practical questions in linguistic experimentation. With this, we want to contribute to a critical evaluation of current standards as well as to the development of new standards and guidelines in the field. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">Here is the main conference information:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; padding: 1pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">main conference site </span><a href="http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">conference date May 22-23, 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 141.45pt; text-indent: -141.45pt; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">conference venue Convention Centre, Hall 1, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, </span><span style="font-family: RubFlama; font-size: 11.333333015441895px; text-indent: -141.6pt;" class="">Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 141.45pt; text-indent: -141.6pt; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px;" class=""><font face="RubFlama" class="">invited speakers </font><b class=""><font face="RubFlama" class="">Barbara Hemforth</font> </b></span><span style="font-family: RubFlama; font-size: 11.333333015441895px;" class="">(Paris Diderot University, Laboratoire de Linguistique Fomelle),</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-indent: 0px;" class=""> </span><b style="text-indent: 0.4pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">Shravan Vasishth </span></b><span style="font-family: RubFlama; font-size: 11.333333015441895px;" class="">(University of Potsdam, Department of Linguistics)</span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">contact </span><a href="mailto:limitsofexperimentation@ruhr-uni-bochum.de" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">limitsofexperimentation@ruhr-uni-bochum.de</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="border: none; padding: 0cm; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">organizing committee Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina Börner, Jutta Pieper, and Sarah Broll<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">In case you too came across such practical questions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">The<b class=""> </b><a href="https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/limitsofexperimentation/call-for-paper.html" class="">Call for Papers</a><b class=""> </b>is now online! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">We invite submissions on questions of experimental practice, independent of the (linguistic) sub-discipline. </span><span style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">Abstracts should be geared to 30+15 minute talks and should not exceed 1500 words including data, graphics and references. Abstracts should be anonymously submitted in doc(x)- or pdf-format, until November 15,</span><sup style="font-family: RubFlama;" class=""> </sup><span style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">2019. For more detailed information on content, please visit the conference website!</span></p><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; padding: 1pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-size: 10px;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">Submission Details<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">submission link </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lofe2020" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lofe2020</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">deadline for abstract submission </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">November 15, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="border-style: none none solid; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify; border: none; padding: 0cm; font-size: 10px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.333333015441895px; font-family: RubFlama;" class="">notification of acceptance January 10, 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">With kind regards, <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: RubFlama;" class="">Alicia Katharina Börner </span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>