30.3722, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 30.3722, Calls: Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:51:38
From: Katharina Spalek [katharina.spalek at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Focus alternatives: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives: 2nd Call for Papers

 
Full Title: Focus Alternatives: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 
Short Title: FATEP2020 

Date: 27-Feb-2020 - 28-Feb-2020
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Spalek
Meeting Email: katharina.spalek at hu-berlin.de

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

''Focus alternatives: Theoretical and empirical perspectives''

Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dates: February 27-28, 2020
Submission deadline: October 31, 2019

Ever since the seminal work by Mats Rooth, starting with his PhD thesis in
1985, the idea that alternatives are relevant to the interpretation of focused
constituents in language has been very influential in semantic theories as
well as other areas in the language sciences. About a decade ago,
psycholinguists started studying whether focus alternatives for a focused
constituent are processed differently from semantic objects (e.g. referents,
predicates) that are not focus alternatives. Still, there is a divide between
semanticists and psycholinguists such that on the one hand, psycholinguists
often reduce complex semantic theories to experimentally testable snippets
that do not do justice to the original theory, and on the other hand,
semanticists often do not seem to be particularly interested in the finer
points of behavioural reflexes of the alternative status such as faster
recognition times or stronger memory traces.
The aim of the present workshop is to bring together theoreticians and
experimentalists, to learn about the concepts and methods that both sides use
when investigating focus alternatives and, ideally, discuss whether and how
closer collaboration on these questions might lead to novel insights by
conducting experiments that are better grounded in theory and by developing
improved theories that are based on a diversity of empirical observations.
The workshop is organised with support from the ERC starting grant ''Focus
alternatives in the human mind: Retrieval, representation and recall'' awarded
to Katharina Spalek.

Invited Speakers:
Bettina Braun, Universität Konstanz
Daniel Büring, Universität Wien


2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks or poster. Contributions may be
related to semantic theories for focus that work with the notion of
alternatives or empirical studies testing questions about behavioural or
neurobiological reflexes of focus alternatives during human language
processing. Corpus studies on focus alternatives are also welcome.
IMPORTANT: The main aim of the workshop is to foster discussion between
theoreticians and experimentalists working on focus alternatives. If you are
active in the field but do not have any new data, this should not deter you
from attending. A synopsis of old work or preliminary data are also welcome if
they are relevant to the investigation of focus alternatives. Criteria for
reviewing abstracts are (in descending order of importance): 1. goodness of
fit to the topic, 2. quality of the argument, 3. (if empirical data are
presented:) quality of the study design and analysis method, 4. (if empirical
data are presented:) quality of the data, 5. novelty.

Abstracts should be limited to a maximum of two pages, including examples,
figures, tables and references. Pages should be A4 or US letter with one inch
margins and a minimum font size of 11pt. Abstracts can be submitted via
EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fatep2020

Abstract submission deadline: October 31, 2019
Notification: mid-December 2019




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