29.1985, Calls: General Linguistics / Frontiers in Psychology (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 13:14:06
From: Sophie Repp [sophie.repp at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: General Linguistics / Frontiers in Psychology (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Frontiers in Psychology 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2018 

Call for Papers

Research Topic (= Special Issue) in Frontiers in Psychology: 
The Role pf Alternatives in Language
[Linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects]

Editors: Sophie Repp & Katharina Spalek

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8153/the-role-of-alternatives-in-l
anguage

Many linguistic utterances convey meaning that is not expressed directly but
has to be inferred, for instance, utterances may evoke alternatives to the
expressed content. Relevant linguistic phenomena are counterfactuals,
negation, questions, focus, and scalar implicatures.

Alternatives have not only been shown to be highly relevant for the linguistic
analysis of all the above and similar phenomena. In recent years,
psycholinguistic research has shown that alternatives are also relevant during
processing. For instance, alternatives are more readily available in lexical
decision tasks than the same words when they are not alternatives in the given
context, and they are more easily remembered.

In linguistic and psycholinguistic investigations of alternatives, individual
researchers usually concentrate on one of the above-mentioned phenomena in one
particular type of model. We believe that our understanding of alternatives
can be advanced significantly by pooling findings and models for different
phenomena. We invite contributions that use quantitative data
(experimental/corpus) to address theoretical/modelling questions concerning
alternatives in linguistics and/or psycholinguistics. Contributions addressing
the issue of alternatives in a cross-phenomenon fashion are particularly
welcome. Possible research questions include but are not restricted to the
size and content of the alternative sets, potential orderings of the set
members; the time course of the activation of alternatives during processing
and the nature of that activation process (mandatory or strategic).

Submissions to this research topic undergo a two-step reviewing process.
Abstracts (max. 1000 words) will be due 31 July 2018. Full papers will be due
30 November 2018. If you are interested in contributing to the research topic,
please write an email to either or both of the editors:
sophie.repp at uni-koeln.de
katharina.spalek at hu-berlin.de
We will add you to the contributor list and you will receive detailed
information about the submission procedure.




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