35.455, Calls: Workshop on "Replication & Reproducibility in Quantitative Typology" at the 15th International Meeting of the Association of Linguistic Typology

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Subject: 35.455, Calls: Workshop on "Replication & Reproducibility in Quantitative Typology" at the 15th International Meeting of the Association of Linguistic Typology

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Date: 08-Feb-2024
From: Laura Becker [becker.linguistics at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on "Replication & Reproducibility in Quantitative Typology" at the 15th International Meeting of the Association of Linguistic Typology

Full Title: Workshop on "Replication & reproducibility in quantitative
typology" at the 15th International Meeting of the Association of
Linguistic Typology

Date: 08-Nov-2024 - 10-Nov-2024
Location: Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China, China
Contact Person: Laura Becker
Meeting Email: becker.linguistics at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/alt2024/home?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

*** Workshop description ***

Replication has played a rather minor role in typology so far, with
most of the discussion being concerned with different types of
language samples and sampling methods. Sparked by a discussion in
Corbett (2005) on data and annotation transparency in typology,
replication in typology became an explicit topic of debate in a 2006
thematic issue of Linguistic Typology. Despite a few case studies, the
2006 discussion mainly remained theoretical, dealing mostly with
different levels of data collection and annotation at which
replication is useful and desirable in typology.

While some of the more high-profile studies (e.g. Atkinson 2011, Chen
2013; Everett 2017; Maddieson 2018) have received further attention,
including methodological discussions (Cysouw, Dediu & Moran 2012;
Hartmann 2022; Hartmann, Roberts, Valdes & Grollemund 2024; Roberts,
Winters & Chen 2015), many typological studies are never replicated.
Additionally, our field still lacks common standards for replication
and testing reproducibility, and most replication studies use
different data as well as methods compared to the original studies.
Similarly, there is no consensus and little discussion on how we
should generally think about studies which fail to (partially)
replicate with other datasets, methods, or both. In this workshop, we
want to promote the discussion on new developments and challenges
related to replication and reproducibility of typological studies.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

    replication case studies, e.g.
        using identical methods as the original study, but a different
dataset
        using an identical dataset as the original study, but
different methods
        replicating low-profile or low-stakes typological studies
    current challenges for replication and reproducibility in
typology, e.g.
        discussions on how to deal with studies which fail to
replicate
        discussions relating to the robustness of result and
uncertainty in typological studies
        discussions on data and annotation transparency in typological
studies
        discussions on how robust data classification and annotations
are (e.g. testing for inter-rater agreement)

*** References ***

Atkinson, Quentin D. 2011. Phonemic diversity supports a serial
founder effect model of language expansion from Africa. Science 332.
346–349.
Chen, Keith. 2013. The effect of language on economic behavior:
Evidence from savings rates, health behaviors, and retirement assets.
American Economic Review 103(2). 690–731.
Corbett, Greville G. 2005. Suppletion in personal pronouns: Theory
versus practice, and the place of reproducibility in typology: De
Gruyter Mouton 9(1). 1–23.
Cysouw, Michael, Dan Dediu & Steven Moran. 2012. Comment on “Phonemic
diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion
from Africa”. Science 335(6069). 657–657.
Everett, Caleb. 2017. Languages in drier climates use fewer vowels.
Frontiers in Psychology 8. 1285.
Hartmann, Frederik. 2022. Methodological problems in quantitative
research on environmental effects in phonology. Journal of Language
Evolution 7(1). 95–119.
Hartmann, Frederik, Seán Roberts, Paul Valdes & Rebecca Grollemund.
2024. Investigating environmental effects on phonology using
diachronic models. Evolutionary Human Sciences 6. e8.
Maddieson, Ian. 2018. Language adapts to environment: Sonority and
temperature. Frontiers in Communication 3.
Roberts, Seán, James Winters & Keith Chen. 2015. Future tense and
economic decisions: Controlling for cultural evolution. PLOS ONE
10(7). e0132145.

Call for Papers:

Abstract submission

Abstracts should be submitted to ALT15_2024 at proton.me by March 15,
2024.
More details about the abstract submission can be found on the
conference website:
https://sites.google.com/view/alt2024/call-for-papers?authuser=0

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