24.1101, Calls: Psycholinguistics, Typology/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl)

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Subject: 24.1101, Calls: Psycholinguistics, Typology/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:50:27
From: Alice Harris [acharris at linguist.umass.edu]
Subject: Psycholinguistics, Typology/ Language and Cognitive Processes (Jrnl)

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Full Title: Language and Cognitive Processes 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2013 

Special Issue 

Laboratory in the Field: Advances in cross-linguistic psycholinguistics

Guest editors
Elisabeth Norcliffe, T. Florian Jaeger & Alice C. Harris 

Deadlines for submissions
03/15/13 	300-1000 word abstract due (given the delay in posting this, we will
accept abstracts until 3/25)
04/01/13	Feedback from the editors on framing and the extent to which your
paper fits into the scope of the special issue. Based on the abstract we will
invite submissions of manuscripts. Invitation will not guarantee acceptance,
as papers will go through the regular review LCP review process.
06/15/13	Manuscript due 

Aim
We invite original and unpublished papers on psycholinguistic research on
lesser-studied languages, for a special issue of Language and Cognitive
Processes. Our purpose is to bring together researchers who are currently
engaged in empirical research on language processing in typologically diverse
languages, in order to establish the emerging field of cross-linguistic
psycholinguistics as a cross-disciplinary research program. Both submissions
that extend the empirical coverage of psycholinguistic theories (e.g., test
whether supposedly universal processing mechanisms hold cross-linguistically)
and submissions that revise and extend psycholinguistic and linguistic theory
through quantitative data are welcome. The special issue will focus on the
architecture and mechanisms underlying language processing (both comprehension
and production) at the lexical and sentence level. This includes studies on
phonological and morphological processing to the extent that they speak to the
organization, representation, and processing of lexical units or the
interaction of these processes with sentence processing. We seek behavioral,
neurocognitive (e.g., ERP, fMRI), and quantitative corpus studies in any of
these areas.

Background on topic
The processes underlying language understanding and production, which
constitute the object of study of psycholinguistics, are generally assumed to
hold universally. Yet the vast majority of psycholinguistic studies are based
on a very small sample of the world's languages. Since languages that are
genealogically related tend to share lexical and structural properties, this
means that psycholinguistic theories are being evaluated against a
typologically narrow empirical base . The necessity of a broader,
cross-linguistic empirical base for psycholinguistic theories is evidenced by
a small, but growing, number of experiments on lesser-studied languages. Some
of these studies have called into question widely held assumptions about
sentence processing. Others have examined phenomena not found in
better-studied languages.   However, cross-linguistic coverage remains small
and accordingly, the answers to some of the central questions in the field of
psycholinguistics continue to lie beyond reach: what are the universal
processing mechanisms that are general to the architecture of the human
language processing system? To what extent, conversely, does the language one
speaks exert an influence on how language is processed?

Abstract submission
Abstracts should be submitted to LabInField at bcs.rochester.edu. 

Manuscript submission
Subsequently invited papers should be submitted through LCP's online
submission system:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/plcp
All papers will be subject to standard peer-review through the LCP system.

Instructions and information on format requirements and length restrictions
can be found on the publisher's website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/plcpauth.asp

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