<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-h7" tabindex="-1" style="outline:none;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-Bk" style="margin-bottom:0px;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;border-radius:0px;float:left;width:628px"><div class="gmail-G3 gmail-G2" style="padding-top:0px;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px rgb(216,216,216);border-left:0px;border-top-color:rgb(216,216,216);border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><div id="gmail-:12w"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:8px"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin-left:44px"><div id="gmail-:161" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt gmail-adP gmail-adO" style="font-size:12.8px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-bottom:5px"><div id="gmail-:160" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-m1583f9f26fe80d00"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Call for papers – Workshop: Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This is the first call for papers for an NSF-funded workshop, Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition, to be held during the LSA’s 2017 Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky (July 22-23, 2017).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">In recent years there has been increasing attention to the ways in which morphological structure is closely tied to the </span><span style="color:black">cognitive processing of word structure and lexical representation. This workshop is designed to explore the hypothesis that morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being partly dependent on the cognitive pathways for processing, storage, and generalization of word structure, and vice versa. </span><span style="color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We are interested in the nature of this interaction, and seek to determine how far it will take us towards explaining system-level principles of morphological organization and their cross-linguistic distribution.</span><span style="color:black"> Core questions:</span></p><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-top:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline">What are the cognitive pathways that lead to cross-linguistic morphological tendencies, and how do they create persistent biases over time towards certain language structures and not others?</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline">How do system-level principles of morphological organization emerge from interactions between the cognitive processing of language, the representational structure of the lexicon, patterns of language use, social factors, universal principles of grammar, and other factors?</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline">Are there cross-linguistic differences in the existence of uniquely morphological principles of organization and/or the modularity of language architecture?</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline">What is the role of language-specific distributional properties in influencing the perception and processing of speech with respect to morphological structure?</li></ol><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We invite submissions that address these issues from a variety of perspectives and methods, including but not limited to experimentation, typological description, and computational modeling. More information is available at the workshop website: </span><a href="https://u.osu.edu/mtlc2017/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">https://u.osu.edu/mtlc2017/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The workshop will consist of talks by invited speakers and others, a poster session, and discussion/commentary sessio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