31.852, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 31.852, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:37:31
From: Samar Husain [samar at mail.iiit.co.in]
Subject: First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language

 
Full Title: First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language 
Short Title: SAFAL 

Date: 02-Sep-2020 - 02-Sep-2020
Location: University of Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Samar Husain
Meeting Email: samar at hss.iitd.ac.in
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/safal2020/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

The study of cross-linguistic variability between languages has been a central
question in linguistic theory and has delivered important insights on
language. This focus on cross-linguistic variation is essential for
formulating and testing linguistic theories: A theory of grammar should be a
theory of all possible human grammars. Similarly, a theory of the psychology
of language should be based on cross-linguistic evidence: Although grammars
are language-specific, speakers' minds and brains are species-specific and
function according to the same principles (Bock, Eberhard, Cutting, Meyer, &
Schriefers, 2001).

However, the majority of psycholinguistic research focuses almost exclusively
on European languages: as of 2009, one could find psycholinguistic studies on
less than 1% of the world’s languages (Jaeger & Norcliffe, 2009; Norcliffe,
Harris, & Jaeger, 2015). This is a problem, because much of our
theory-building is based on a limited group of languages, ignoring a treasure
trove of syntactic, morphological, and semantic variation that could hold the
key to our understanding of how the mind works. In particular,
cross-linguistic data may help answer questions such as: What are the
processing strategies and constraints that can be deemed universal, i.e.
holding across all languages? What is the cross-linguistic variability with
regard to processing strategies across languages? Can we make certain
typological predictions in processing similar to what has been done in
linguistic typology? In order to answer these questions, we need to
investigate languages from varied language families. For instance, recent work
on the interaction of memory constraints and expectation in verb final
languages vs verb medial languages has revealed that prediction processes in
the former seems to be able to withstand memory constraints more than the
latter (e.g., Vasishth, Suckow, Lewis, & Kern, 2010). This points to some kind
of typological variability in processing which cannot be detected by
investigating only group of languages.

The proposed workshop with its focus on the languages of India will contribute
in starting such an initiative. India is uniquely placed to be a test-bed for
such an enterprise. India has 22 official languages. The total number of
individual languages is around 460, and there are many more languages and
dialects that have not received official recognition. These languages cover
seven language families; and multilingualism is the norm, not the exception.
Frequently, individuals speak languages from different language families. This
diversity in languages makes an ideal setting for the development and testing
of psycholinguistic theories. First South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and
Processing of Language aims to provide a platform to exchange research on
sentence processing, verbal semantics, computational modeling, corpus-based
psycholinguistics, neurobiology of language, and child language acquisition,
among others, in the context of the subcontinent's linguistic landscape.

Invited speakers: 
Bhuvana Narasimhan is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of
Colorado Boulder. Her research areas include descriptive semantics, how
language influences thinking, and developmental psycholinguistics. 

Rajesh Bhatt is Professor of Linguistics in Department of Linguistics at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His broad research interests are syntax,
the syntax-semantics interface, semantics, Indo-Aryan languages, Tree
Adjoining Grammars and computational linguistics.


Call for Papers: 

Abstract submission deadline has been extended to 15 March, 2020! 

We invite abstracts on (but not limited to): 
- sentence processing
- verbal semantics
- phonetic/phonological/morphological processing
- computational modeling
- corpus-based psycholinguistics
- neurobiology of language
- child language acquisition

in the context of the subcontinent’s linguistic landscape.

We invite abstracts for 30+15 minute talks, and for poster presentations.
Please specify if your submission is intended to be a talk or a poster.

The maximum length for the abstract is 3 pages. This includes example
sentences, figures, and bibliography. The abstracts are not anonymous. Please
ensure that there is a 2.5 cm margin on all sides, single space text, and 12
point Times New Roman font.

Please submit the abstract as a single pdf file at
https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=FU43uwJLP8LP8eS7PTSX5k




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