[Lingtyp] Call for Papers: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2020

[Sebastian Sauppe]

In the past few decades, there has been increasing evidence suggesting that
the distribution of linguistic features among the world?s languages is
influenced by processing principles of the human mind and brain and that,
conversely, processing and cognition may be shaped by the specific
linguistic experiences we are exposed to. Although it has not yet reached
mainstream research, the cross-linguistic study of language processing and
learning has received more attention in recent years.

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 2020 will be held at
the University of Zurich, August 31 ? September 1, 2020.

We invite contributions for 20-minute talks on the interface of linguistic
diversity and language processing, encompassing production, comprehension,
and acquisition. Specifically, we invite contributions presenting new
evidence on:

  - Whether and how grammars are shaped by (cognitive and neurobiological)
  constraints on processing, learning, and external pressures
  - Whether and how the different grammatical properties of linguistic
  systems might afford the application of different processing and learning
  strategies

We welcome in particular:

  - Studies examining production, comprehension, or developmental
  phenomena in one or more language(s) chosen for differences in their
  grammatical characteristics
  - Experimental studies on under-researched languages providing
  implications for existing processing and acquisition theories
  - Studies providing processing-based or learning-based explanations of
  language change and typological distributions

Keynote speakers:

  - Asli Ozyurek <https://www.ru.nl/mlc/people/asli-ozyurek/ <https://www.ru.nl/mlc/people/asli-ozyurek/>> (Max Planck
  Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University)
  - Elena Lieven
  <https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/elena.lieven.html <https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/elena.lieven.html>>
  (University of Manchester)
  - Matt Wagers <https://people.ucsc.edu/~mwagers/ <https://people.ucsc.edu/~mwagers/>> (University of
  California Santa Cruz)

Abstracts should be submitted as PDFs
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xppl2020 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xppl2020>>, no later than *15th
April 2020*, and should not exceed one A4 page (one additional page for
interlinear-glossed examples, references, and figures is allowed).


Organizers:

  - Carmen Saldana
  - Caroline Andrews
  - Sebastian Sauppe
  - Jekaterina Mazara
  - Balthasar Bickel
  - Sabine Stoll

Workshop homepage: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2020.html <https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2020.html>
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