25.4815, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 25.4815, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 03:58:31
From: Pritty Patel-Grosz [pritty at alum.mit.edu]
Subject: Experimental Methodology in Semantics and Pragmatics

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Full Title: Experimental Methodology in Semantics and Pragmatics 

Date: 09-Sep-2015 - 09-Sep-2015
Location: Tuebingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Oliver Bott
Meeting Email: oliver.bott at uni-tuebingen.de

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The number of researchers in semantics and pragmatics using experiments as a
tool to evaluate hypotheses derived from linguistic theories is increasing.
This workshop offers a forum for methodological reflection on what can and
cannot be achieved with experimental work in our field and which paradigms are
best suited to yield reliable and valid results for answering current
questions in semantics and pragmatics. 


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions addressing one or more of the following topics:

1. Method Evaluation

1.1 Comparing experimental methods: 

What are the advantages and limitations of existing psycholinguistic methods? How can these methods be combined and extended for the purpose of investigating questions in semantics and pragmatics? How can the current methodological repertoire be extended by adapting and developing new techniques?

1.2 Experimentation vs. other methods:

What are the advantages of corpus studies, field work, and computational modelling compared to experimental methods? How can these other methods complement experimental evidence?

1.3 Basis and Limits of Speaker Judgments

2. Implications of Experimental Results for Semantic and Pragmatic Theorizing

2.1 Does the predicted effect reflect the structure under investigation or some processing constraint?

2.2 (How) can we supplement formal theories with (independent) processing components?

2.3 What linking hypotheses are necessary to relate experimental data to semantic/pragmatic theory?

2.4 How can experimental results contribute to a reassessment of central theoretical concepts?

3. Problematic Data

3.1 How can we deal with conflicting evidence?

3.2 What do null effects tell us?

We invite submissions for 20-minute talks plus 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts must be anonymous, in PDF format, 2 pages (A4 or letter), in a font size no less then 12pt, and with margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Please submit abstracts via EasyChair (see link below) no later than February 15, 2015. 

Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair, using the following link: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sub20

For questions or enquiries please write to: sub20xmeth at gmail.com

Organizers:

Oliver Bott, Robin Hörnig, Janina Radó, and Sonja Tiemann 
(University of Tübingen)







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