29.1803, Calls: Psycholinguistics, Syntax/USA

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Subject: 29.1803, Calls: Psycholinguistics, Syntax/USA

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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:21:49
From: Savithry Namboodiripad [savithry at umich.edu]
Subject: Experimental Approaches to Cross-linguistic Variation in Island Phenomena

 
Full Title: Experimental Approaches to Cross-linguistic Variation in Island Phenomena 

Date: 03-Jan-2019 - 07-Jan-2019
Location: New York, New York, USA 
Contact Person: Savithry Namboodiripad
Meeting Email: savithry at umich.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 09-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

This organized session (proposing for the 2019 LSA Annual Meeting in New York
City) will bring together researchers who explore variability in island
phenomena with the aim of better understanding what factors contribute to
cross-linguistic/cross-variety variation. We seek short abstracts which use
experimental methods to investigate island extraction phenomena.


Call for Abstracts:

Proposed LSA Organized session on “Experimental Approaches to Cross-linguistic
Variation in Island Phenomena”

Since the early descriptions of island phenomena (e.g. Ross, 1967), linguists
have observed a great deal of variation, both within and across languages
(e.g., Reinhart 1981; Rizzi 1982, Maling & Zaenen, 1982). While researchers
are generally split between those who explore grammatical explanations and
those who appeal to processing-based explanations of island phenomena,
cross-linguistic differences merit further explanation under any approach.
Especially interesting have been so-called acceptable island violations, cases
in which sentences with island violations are produced and deemed acceptable
by speakers of a language, but nonetheless exhibit characteristics of island
violations in experiments  (e.g., super-additive unacceptability; Almeida
2014, Kush, Londahl, & Sprouse 2017).

This organized session (proposing for the 2019 LSA Annual Meeting in New York
City) will bring together researchers who explore variability in island
phenomena with the aim of better understanding what factors contribute to
cross-linguistic/cross-variety variation. We expect that taking a
cross-linguistic experimental approach will allow us to directly compare
languages in a way that was previously not possible, hopefully shedding light
not only on how languages vary in this domain, but also why.

We seek short abstracts which use experimental methods to investigate island
extraction phenomena. The proposed session will have the “data blitz” format:
8 min talks which cover details about the language, brief methods, and
results. These talks will be bookended by general presentations outlining
relevant methodological and theoretical points. We particularly encourage
submissions from students and early career researchers, those working with
understudied languages, and/or those comparing multiple languages/varieties.  

Deadline: May 9th, midnight AoE (anywhere on Earth)

500 word abstract + up to one additional page of supplementary materials
(figures, glossed examples, etc.)

Please email anonymized abstracts in pdf format to savithry at umich.edu

Organizers:

Savithry Namboodiripad (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) savithry at umich.edu
Dave Kush (Norwegian University of Science and Technology/NTNU)
dave.kush at ntnu.no  
Adam Morgan (UC San Diego) a1morgan at ucsd.edu




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