35.1130, Calls: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2024

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Subject: 35.1130, Calls: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2024

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Date: 02-Apr-2024
From: Eva Huber [eva.huber at uzh.ch]
Subject: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop 2024

Full Title: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning
Workshop 2024
Short Title: X-PPL

Date: 02-Sep-2024 - 03-Sep-2024
Location: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Contact Person: Eva Huber
Meeting Email: x-ppl at ivs.uzh.ch
Web Site:
https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2024.html

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition;
Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 01-May-2024

Meeting Description:

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop
(X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working
to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic
and neuroscience research. This research is driven by the recognition
that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity provides
important and unique opportunities to see language processing and
language learning mechanisms at work and to gain deeper insights into
the balance between universal vs varying dimensions of these
mechanisms. The bulk of processing and acquisition research represents
only a small fraction of linguistic diversity, and this current state
risks biasing both our theories and our research questions.

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop
(X-PPL) aims to fill this gap and provide a platform for
cross-linguistic research on language processing and learning.

X-PPL 2024 will be hosted by the Center for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Language Evolution at the University of Zurich, and will take
place on September 2 and 3, 2024.

Keynote speakers: Samar Husain (Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, IIT Delhi, India)  and Alex Cristia (Laboratoire de Sciences
Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris Sciences Lettres University)

X-PPL 2024 will happen onsite in Zurich, Switzerland. However, it will
be possible to accommodate a limited number of online talks (in a
hybrid format). To make X-PPL 2024 accessible to researchers all over
the world, we will stream all talks and discussions. However, we
strongly encourage attendees to be present in Zurich to enhance
networking opportunities and foster scientific exchange.

We invite contributions for 20-minute talks on the interface of
linguistic diversity and language processing (encompassing production
and comprehension) and child language acquisition with the goal of
understanding linguistic ontogeny (first language acquisition),
phylogeny (typological diversification, structural evolution) and the
language-brain relationship. We also invite abstracts on (a)
methodological, cultural or other issues that research on language
processing and learning outside of the lab might encounter or (b)
plans for cross-linguistic work (see below).

Specifically, we invite contributions presenting new evidence on:

1) Whether and how grammars are shaped by (cognitive and cerebral)
constraints on processing and learning, and by external pressures 2)
Whether and how the different grammatical properties of linguistic
systems shape processing and learning strategies

We welcome in particular:
1) Experimental and observational studies on under-researched
languages providing implications for processing and acquisition
theories 2) Studies examining production, comprehension, or (L1)
developmental phenomena in one or more language(s) that were chosen
for their grammatical characteristics 3) Studies providing
processing-based or learning-based explanations of language change and
typological distributions

In addition, there are several factors that make cross-linguistic and
fieldwork-based research particularly challenging. Therefore, we also
welcome abstracts that address:
1) Methodological issues which may be relevant to cross-linguistic
processing and acquisition research (such as small to non-existent
corpora resources, varying literacy levels among speakers,
participants who are not familiar with experiments/technology, etc.),
and the solutions that researchers have found to address these issues
2) Methods for processing corpus and experimental data for
psycholinguistic goals in low-resource languages

Furthermore, we invite abstracts on plans for experimental
cross-linguistic work that the  presenters would like to get feedback
on, such as from researchers new to experimental cross-linguistic work
that may particularly benefit from the expertise of the community.

Abstracts should be submitted as PDFs no later than May 1st, 2024 at
this link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/42904/submitter.

Abstracts should not exceed 250 words (plus one optional additional
page for interlinear-glossed examples, references, and figures). The
language(s) studied should be mentioned in the abstract. The
organising committee will then select contributions for 20 min talks.

Enquiries can be sent to x-ppl at ivs.uzh.ch

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