DGfS workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing

[Natalie Boll-Avetisyan]

Dear all,

we are pleased to announce that there will be a workshop ('AG 7') on
"Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing" at the next
DGfS conference, which will take place in Leipzig, Germany (date: March
4-6, 2015).

We will be able to accept 14 papers for oral presentations.
Deadline for abstract submission: August 31st.
For more detail, see below.

Best,

Dinah Baer-Henney & Natalie Boll-Avetisyan


*DGfS Workshop: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing*

This workshop ('Arbeitsgruppe') will be held at the 37th Annual Meeting of
the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) in Leipzig, Germany (March 4-6, 2015).

DGfS website: http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=7

<https://dgfs.de/en/content/events.html>
Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/workshop-universal-biases/call



*Call for Papers *

Typological research indicates that many languages share specific patterns
regarding their phoneme inventories, syllable structures, phonotactics and
prosodic systems. A recurrent topic in acquisition research is the question
of whether typologically well-attested patterns reflect universal biases on
phonological acquisition and/or speech processing. This workshop aims at
discussing the nature of these biases and to what extent they influence
phonological acquisition and processing of L1 and L2 in children and
adults.

There seems to be a strong consensus among researchers that phonological
acquisition is guided by universal biases. Yet, the specific nature of
these biases is unclear: are they functional or analytical, domain-general
or domain-specific? What is it that makes some patterns, often called
natural patterns, more easily accessible and learnable than others: Are
they are innate or are they triggered by experience with language? In
addition, it is debated whether there are time limits on the operating
periods of biases (possibly reflecting difficulties in L2 phonological
acquisition, i.e., a critical period), or whether they also influence L2
phonological acquisition. If they influence the L2, what happens when the
L1 phonological system is in conflict with the L2? In addition, the
question arises to what extent universal biases might be at work even
during speech processing after acquisition is completed. These classical
questions have recently received new attention and benefit from the revival
of artificial language paradigms, which enable us to investigate language
acquisition and processing likewise.

The goal of the workshop is to discuss effects of biases on L1 and early L2
phonological acquisition and their relation to age of acquisition from
theoretical and empirical perspective. We aim to contribute to the current
debate by assembling new insights to get a more concrete comprehension of
the nature of universal biases.

We invite contributions investigating monolingual and bilingual (L2)
infant, child and adult phonological acquisition of segmental and
suprasegmental structures in natural and artificial language learning.
Contributions that may build a bridge between empirical findings and
linguistic theory are particularly welcome.

*Keynote speakers*

Sharon Peperkamp (CNRS, Institut d'Etudes de la Cognition, Ecole Normale
Superieure, Paris)

Elliott Moreton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

*Abstract submission guidelines*

Abstracts should be submitted for 30-minute slots (including discussion).

Format: 1 page (TimesNewRoman, 12pt, 1 inch margins, including references
and figures etc.). Please submit two pdf files containing your abstract via
email (to: nboll at uni-potsdam.de): one file should include name(s) of
author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), title of talk; another one
should be anonymous. Abstracts and presentations must be in English. Your
name should occur in the file name.

*Important dates*

Abstract deadline: 31 August, 2014

Notification of abstract acceptance: mid September, 2014

Conference dates: 4-6 March, 2015



Looking forward to your participation!



*Organizing Committee *

Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, University of
Potsdam)

Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam)

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Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, PhD
University of Potsdam, Germany
https://sites.google.com/site/bollavetisyan/

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