30.2808, Calls: Comp Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-2808. Wed Jul 17 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.2808, Calls: Comp Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:52:14
From: Sina Bosch [bosch at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Modelling Gradient Variability in Grammar (Workshop at DGfS 2020)

 
Full Title: Modelling Gradient Variability in Grammar (Workshop at DGfS 2020) 

Date: 04-Mar-2020 - 06-Mar-2020
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Judith Schlenter
Meeting Email: prim at uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: https://www.zfs.uni-hamburg.de/dgfs2020/dgfs2020.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 04-Aug-2019 

Meeting Description:

Constraint-based approaches to language, such as Harmonic Grammar, Optimality
Theory, and Gradient Symbolic Computation (Smolensky et al., 2014), represent
an alternative to traditional models of grammar to account for variability and
gradience within the use and knowledge of language. Recently, these approaches
have started to focus on how graded representations model linguistic
performance in different speaker groups (Goldrick et al., 2016). In this
workshop, we want to bring together different fields of linguistics to
investigate grammatical variability from within the system (theoretical
linguistics), between individual speakers (psycholinguistics), and try to
model variability by means of (weighted) constraint-based approaches
(computational linguistics). By modelling the factors influencing variability,
we aim to get a clearer picture of the underlying mental representations and
processing architectures in the individual and of the grammatical options that
are inherent in a linguistic system. The phenomena of interest include (but
are not restricted to) syntactic and morphological variation. Some of the
questions we aim to address are how much variability the language system
allows, how much variability individual speakers or different speaker groups
show, and how this variability can be predicted by means of weighted
constraints.


2nd Call for Papers:

We encourage contributions from theoretical and empirical research focusing on
modelling syntactic and morphological variability in different languages and
speaker groups, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

We invite abstracts for 30-minute slots (20min presentation + 10min
discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and not exceed 1 page (A4, Times
New Roman, 12pt, single-space), graphs and references can be included on a
second page. Please send your abstract electronically in PDF- or in
DOC/DOCX-format by August, 4, 2019 to prim at uni-potsdam.de.

Please note:
We are aware that the deadline for submissions is quite early. Hence, please
feel free to submit an abstract even if you have not yet completely finished
data collection / analysis, but will have by the time of the conference.

The workshop will be part of the 42nd annual meeting of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS 2020) to be held at the University of Hamburg from March 04-06,
2020. Presenters will have to register for the conference and are not supposed
to present a talk at any of the parallel DGfS workshops, according to the DGfS
regulations.

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: August 4, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Early September, 2019
Workshop: March 04-06, 2020 

Invited speakers:

1) Lara Schwarz (Penn State University)
2) tba

Organizers: Sina Bosch, Ilaria De Cesare, Anna Jessen, Serkan Uygun




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