34.2925, Calls: The Semantic Transparency of Morphologically Complex Words

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Subject: 34.2925, Calls: The Semantic Transparency of Morphologically Complex Words

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Date: 06-Oct-2023
From: Richard Huyghe [richard.huyghe at unifr.ch]
Subject: The Semantic Transparency of Morphologically Complex Words


Full Title: The semantic transparency of morphologically complex words

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Richard Huyghe
Meeting Email: richard.huyghe at unifr.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 23-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

Semantic transparency has long been a central topic in
psycholinguistic studies focused on the representation and processing
of morphologically complex words (Marslen-Wilson et al. 1994,
Schreuder and Baayen 1995, Rastle et al. 2000, a.o.). The transparency
of compound words, in particular, has attracted a lot of attention and
has been investigated as a factor possibly influencing their semantic
processing (Sandra 1990, Zwitserlood 1994, Libben et al. 2003, Juhasz
2007, Frisson et al. 2008, Ji et al. 2011, a.o.). In recent years,
research has evolved to encompass more theoretical aspects, raising
new issues about the determinants of transparency and the interplay of
linguistic and psychological factors in the form-meaning mapping of
complex words (Marelli and Baroni 2015, Bell and Schäfer 2016, Günther
et al. 2020, Varvara et al. 2021, Stupak and Baayen 2022, a.o.).
Computational methods have provided new ways to assess transparency
and allowed for a comparison of human judgements and corpus-based
measures of transparency, while studies on compounding and affixation
in various languages have expanded the scope of research on the
transparency of complex words. In this workshop, we want to further
explore the fundamental characteristics and the effects of semantic
transparency in word-formation, through a variety of theoretical and
methodological approaches to transparency. Research questions include,
but are not limited to, the following:

• How transparent are the different word-formation processes, and how
do affixation, compounding, conversion, or other processes (e.g.
blending and clipping) compare in terms of transparency? Can variation
in transparency distinguish between competing processes?

• Which linguistic factors influence transparency and how? To what
extent is transparency affected by the productivity and
polyfunctionality of word-formation processes, as well as by
lexicalization, polysemy, and diachronic change?

• How can we accurately measure the different aspects of transparency
(i.e. relatedness and predictability) based on human judgements and
distributional data, and can the same measurement methods be used for
compounds and derived words?

• How can theoretical models of the mental lexicon account for
variation in semantic transparency? How do degrees of transparency
affect the lexical processing, storage and representation of complex
words? What role does transparency play in the organization of
morphosemantic networks in the mental lexicon?

• How is semantic transparency described in morphological theory and
how is it connected to the basic concepts of morphology? How do
morpheme-, lexeme- and paradigm-based theories of word-formation deal
with variation in transparency of complex words?

• How can graded conceptions of lexical meaning account for the
semantic transparency of complex words? To what extent do contextual
flexibility and semantic adjustments to context affect the
transparency of compounds and derived words?

The complete call for papers is available on the conference website:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/list-of-workshop-proposals/

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for 20-minute talks. Preliminary abstracts of
300 words (excluding references) should be sent to the workshop
organizers by 13 November 2023 to be included in the workshop
proposal. If the workshop proposal is accepted, presenters will be
asked to submit a 500-word abstract by 15 January 2024.



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