34.2972, Calls: SLE workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Heritage, Indigenous, and Minoritized Languages

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Subject: 34.2972, Calls: SLE workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Heritage, Indigenous, and Minoritized Languages

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Date: 10-Oct-2023
From: Maria Khachaturyan [maria.khachaturyan at helsinki.fi]
Subject: SLE workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Heritage, Indigenous, and Minoritized Languages

Full Title: SLE workshop on Psycholinguistic approaches to the study
of heritage, Indigenous, and minoritized languages

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Maria Khachaturyan
Meeting Email: maria.khachaturyan at helsinki.fi

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for a workshop on Psycholinguistic approaches to
the study of heritage, Indigenous, and minoritized languages
(organized by Evangelia Adamou and Masha Khachaturyan), to be held as
part of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisica Europaea,
hosted by the University of Helsinki, 21–24 August 2024. Preliminary
abstracts of 300 words must be received by 10 November 2023, to be
included in the workshop proposal. See submission instructions below.

Workshop description
Despite multiple differences in the trajectories of the bilingual
individuals, migrant and heritage speakers and signers share several
traits with users of Indigenous and minoritized languages (Benmamoun,
Montrul & Polinsky 2013; Nagy 2017; Chen Pichler, Lillo-Martin &
Palmer 2018; Bellamy & Parafita Couto 2020). Crucially, these
populations are often bi/multilingual and use a language that is not
dominant in the larger society and that may be endangered in various
degrees. And yet, methods and research questions within these research
fields are largely kept separate.

Indeed, when researchers studying Indigenous, minoritized, and often
endangered languages take into consideration the effects of
bilingualism, they focus primarily on contact-induced variation or
intergenerational transmission and change in multilingual ecologies
(Adamou 2016; Moro 2019; Saad, Klamer & Moro 2019; Kantarovich 2022;
Grenoble & Osipov 2023; Khachaturyan, Moroz & Mamy Accepted).
Application of psycholinguistic protocols in contexts of language
endangerment are exceedingly rare (see Adamou 2021).

At the same time, research on bilingualism still strives to reflect
cultural and linguistic diversity and move beyond the study of the
“Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD)”
populations (Blasi et al. 2022). This incompleteness of coverage of
the global reality of bilinguals under-determines the power of
generalizations from empirical observations as well as their
contributions to linguistic and psycholinguistic theories (Lohndal et
al. 2019; Scontras & Putnam 2020).
The aim of this workshop is therefore to bring together specialists of
heritage languages and linguists studying Indigenous and minoritized
languages who use psycholinguistic methods to gain insights into the
complex bilingual experience and its effects on these language(s).

Given the above, we call for papers addressing any of the following
questions:
•       To what extent are the experiences of heritage speakers and
signers comparable to those of speakers and signers of Indigenous and
minoritized languages, and how do these differences shape predictions
about comprehension and production mechanisms?
•       How do under-described linguistic phenomena contribute to our
understanding of bilingual processing mechanisms?
•       What novel insights do we gain on language production and
comprehension when considering diverse bilingual populations?
•       How can psycholinguistic methods inform studies of
contact-induced language change?
•       How can we reconcile psycholinguistic methods with
community-led research and the priorities of language reclamation?
•       What are the advantages and limitations of psycholinguistic
methods to capture the variety of multilingual exposure and usage in
various social contexts?
•       What comparison or baseline groups do we need to better
understand the sources of variation in multilingual settings involving
heritage, Indigenous, and minoritized languages?

Submission instructions
We invite submissions for 20-minute talks that contribute to the
description, discussion, and analysis of information-structure
mismatches in any language or in a comparative perspective.
Preliminary abstracts (300 words, as DOC file) should be sent to the
workshop organizers (evangelia.adamou at cnrs.fr,
maria.khachaturyan at helsinki.fi) by 10 November 2023. If the workshop
proposal is successful, prospective presenters will be asked to submit
a 500 word abstract directly to SLE by 15 January 2024.

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