[Lingtyp] call for abstracts: ALT workshop on Replication & reproducibility

[Laura Becker]

**** Call for abstracts ****

ALT Workshop on *Replication & reproducibility in quantitative typology
*Convenors: Laura Becker, Frederik Hartmann, Matías Guzmán Naranjo


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date: November 8-10 2024
venue: Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
website: https://sites.google.com/view/alt2024/home?authuser=0
abstract submission deadline: *March 15, 2024*
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*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.
      o using identical methods as the original study, but a different
        dataset
      o using an identical dataset as the original study, but different
        methods
      o replicating low-profile or low-stakes typological studies
  * current challenges for replication and reproducibility in typology, e.g.
      o discussions on how to deal with studies which fail to replicate
      o discussions relating to the robustness of result and uncertainty
        in typological studies
      o discussions on data and annotation transparency in typological
        studies
      o discussions on how robust data classification and annotations
        are (e.g. testing for inter-rater agreement)


*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


*References
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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.

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