31.693, FYI: Call for chapter contributions

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Subject: 31.693, FYI:  Call for chapter contributions

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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:51:47
From: Dalila Ayoun [ayoun at arizona.edu]
Subject: Call for chapter contributions

 
Puzzling is a recurring adjective in the description of gender as “the most
puzzling feature that has raised the most questions in the linguistic
literature” (Audring 2014: 6) or “the most puzzling of all the grammatical
categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) to which I would add fascinating. 

Gender plays an important role in the acquisition and processing of all
languages whether they display only two grammatical genders represented by
distinct morphemes (e.g., French or Spanish) or conflated with number on a
portmanteau morpheme (e.g., Italian, De Martino et al. 2011; Swahili, Spinner
et al. 2017), or over twenty as in Nigerian Fula (Corbett 2011).  

Why do L2 learners appear to have such great difficulties in acquiring
grammatical gender and agreement? How do bilingual/ L2 learners retrieve the
appropriate grammatical gender when performing linguistic tasks (Paolieri et
al. 2019)? Do L2 learners process inflectional agreement differently from
native speakers? How can ERP studies inform the interaction between the L1 and
the L2 in language processing? Do L1 speakers and L2 learners use different
neural or similar mechanisms for syntactic processing? Neuro-psychological
studies can enlighten how gender agreement processes obey to syntactic,
morphological, phonological and lexical constraints that vary across languages
(e.g., Alencar de Resende et al. 2019; Nichols & Joanisse 2019). 

This is a small sample of research questions empirical studies have been
addressing and although their findings have informed several important debates
in the representation, production and processing of grammatical gender, they
are scattered across a variety of publications. An edited volume with original
studies would make a significant contribution, allowing students and
researchers to get a state-of-the-art perspective on current research from a
broad array of theoretical and applied perspectives as well as languages. 

Please submit a 300-500 word proposal (plus references) to ayoun at arizona.edu
by March 1, 2020. The proposal must include a title, the theoretical
background, a description of the methodology (participants, data, analyses),
research questions, how it would make a new and original contribution. It may
fall within any of the following: 
- L1 acquisition (with or with SLI)
- L2, Ln acquisition with any language pairs
- Representation, production, comprehension and/or processing studies
- ERP studies, fMRI studies
Submissions by doctoral students and young scholars are strongly encouraged. 

Tentative timetable:
- March, 2020: submit a 300-500 word proposal
- March 15, 2020: submission of volume proposal to John Benjamins who has
indicated they would like to review the proposal. 
- September 1, 2020: submission of first draft to editor for internal review
- September 30, 2020: submission of revised draft to editor if necessary
- October 15, 2020: reviewers’ deadline (first draft)
- November 15, 2020: submission of revised version to editor; second round of
reviews if necessary
- December 15, 2020: reviewers’ deadline (second draft) or final version
- January 15, 2021: submission of volume to publisher

About the editor:
Dalila Ayoun is Professor of French Linguistics and SLAT at the University of
Arizona. Her research interests lie in the second language acquisition of
morphosyntax, theoretical and applied French linguistics from a generative
perspective. Complete curriculum vitae at http://u.arizona.edu/~ayoun/
Edited volumes :
Ayoun, D., Celle, A. & Lansari, L. (2018)(Eds). Tense, Aspect, Modality and
Evidentiality: 
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Ayoun, D. (2015)(Ed.). The Acquisition of the Present. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Ayoun, D. (2008)(Ed.). Studies in French Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins.
Ayoun, D. (2007)(Ed.). French Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics





 



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