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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The
<i>Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop</i> (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. This research is driven
by the recognition that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity provides important and unique opportunities to see language processing and language learning mechanisms at work and to gain deeper insights into the balance between universal vs varying
dimensions of these mechanisms. The bulk of processing and acquisition research represents only a small fraction of linguistic diversity, and this current state risks biasing both our theories and our research questions. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The
<i>Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop</i> (X-PPL) aims to fill this gap and provide a platform for cross-linguistic research on language processing and learning. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">X-PPL 2024 will be hosted by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution at the
<b>University of Zurich</b>, and will take place on <b>September 2 and 3, 2024</b>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Keynote speakers: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Samar Husain</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department
of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">) </span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Alex Cristia (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris Sciences Lettres University) </span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">X-PPL 2024 will happen onsite in Zurich, Switzerland. However, it will be possible to accommodate a “limited” number of online talks (in a hybrid format).
To make X-PPL 2024 accessible to researchers all over the world, we will stream all talks and discussions. However, we strongly encourage attendees to be present in Zurich to enhance networking opportunities and foster scientific exchange. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">We invite contributions for 20-minute talks on the interface of linguistic diversity and language processing (encompassing production and comprehension) and
child language acquisition with the goal of understanding linguistic ontogeny (first language acquisition), phylogeny (typological diversification, structural evolution) and the language-brain relationship. We also invite abstracts on (a) methodological, cultural
or other issues that research on language processing and learning outside of the lab might encounter or (b) plans for cross-linguistic work (see below). </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Specifically, we invite contributions presenting new evidence on: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Whether and how grammars are shaped by (cognitive and cerebral) constraints on processing and learning, and by external pressures </span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Whether and how the different grammatical properties of linguistic systems shape processing and learning strategies </span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">We welcome in particular: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Experimental and observational studies on under-researched languages providing implications for processing and acquisition theories </span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Studies examining production, comprehension, or (L1) developmental phenomena in one or more language(s) that were chosen for their grammatical characteristics </span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Studies providing processing-based or learning-based explanations of language change and typological distributions </span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">In addition, there are several factors that make cross-linguistic and fieldwork-based research particularly challenging. Therefore, we also welcome abstracts
that address: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Methodological issues which may be relevant to cross-linguistic processing and acquisition research (such as small to non-existent corpora resources, varying literacy levels among
speakers, participants who are not familiar with experiments/technology, etc.), and the solutions that researchers have found to address these issues </span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0cm 1em 36pt; list-style-type: "- ";">
<span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Methods for processing corpus and experimental data for psycholinguistic goals in low-resource languages </span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Furthermore, we invite abstracts on plans for experimental cross-linguistic work that the </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">presenters would like to get feedback on, such as from researchers new to experimental cross-linguistic work that may particularly benefit from the expertise
of the community. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Abstracts should be submitted as PDFs no later than May 1</span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt; color: black;"><sup>st</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">,
2024 at this link: <a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/42904/submitter" target="_blank" id="OWA205440f6-ba3c-31f6-b586-9bb3940a0817" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/42904/submitter</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Abstracts should not exceed 250 words (plus one optional additional page for interlinear-glossed examples, references, and figures). The language(s) studied
should be mentioned in the abstract. The organising committee will then select contributions for 20 min talks. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">More information will follow soon on:
<a href="https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2024.html" target="_blank" id="OWAcaa4042c-a0c0-113f-a2d4-6dd47069e8e4" class="ms-outlook-linkify OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2024.html</a></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enquiries can be sent to x-ppl@ivs.uzh.ch</span></p>
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