27.914, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Neuroling, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 27.914, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Neuroling, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:39:10
From: Duygu Ozge [duyguozge at gmail.com]
Subject: 2nd International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition & Processing of Head-Final Languages

 
Full Title: 2nd International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition & Processing of Head-Final Languages 
Short Title: CAPHL 2016 

Date: 21-May-2016 - 21-May-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Duygu Ozge
Meeting Email: caphl.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dozge/caphl2016/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     German (deu)
                     Hindi (hin)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Korean (kor)
                     Turkish (tur)

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2016 

Meeting Description:

Second International Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and Processing of
Head-Final Languages (CAPHL 2016)
21 May 2016
Humboldt University, Berlin

Led by: Dr. Duygu Ozge, Marie Curie Fellow, Harvard University & Middle East
Technical University & Prof. Pia Knoeferle, Humboldt University

Venue: Humboldt-University Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Dekanatsraum, (3.246)

Almost half of the world's languages have SOV order.  These languages
generally locate the verbs at the end of their clauses, and they tend to be
rich in morphosyntax and flexible in word ordering. 

There is emerging data exploring how young children process head-final
languages, which present unique challenges for theories of language
acquisition, language processing, and for theories about the neural
organization of linguistic features. 

1st CAPHL was held at Harvard University
(http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dozge/caphl/index.html), which initiated
communication among psycholinguists working on child language processing in
head-final languages. 

With this second workshop, we aim to foster further discussion and fruitful
exchange of ideas among researchers who study child processing of head-final
languages and structures.  We also hope that this workshop leads to future
collaborative projects and a special issue on Language Processing in
Head-Final Child Language. 

Funding
- FP7-MarieCurie-IOF-2011-301637-DEV LANG COMPRHN (to D. Ozge)
- SPP 1727 xPrag (DFG), Project FoTeRo (to P. Knoeferle)


Call for Abstracts:

We invite abstracts for the 2nd Workshop on Children’s Acquisition and
Processing of Head-Final Languages (CAPHL), which will be held on 21 May 2016
at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 

Studies are especially welcome if they have not been published elsewhere and
if they have theoretical implications about the mechanisms of language
acquisition and processing (both comprehension and production), or about the
function of specific brain regions.    

Some of the questions we wish to address in the workshop are listed below:

- How do different cues contribute to children’s real-time interpretation of
the thematic structure in verb-final utterances?

-  How do children process complex structures (e.g., word order variation,
embedded clauses, morphosyntax, long-distance dependencies, structural
ambiguities) in head-final languages?

- Are there any differences between consistently and inconsistently head-final
languages in terms of strategies used during parsing?  

- How do children process two (or more) languages with distinct
head-directionalities? 

- What does the processing pattern in head-final structures reveal about
language processing, language acquisition and neural functions?

Abstracts:

- Single-spaced, Times New Roman 12-pt font, 1-inch margins
- One-page .PDF file
- No identifying information about the author(s) on the abstract document
- Two anonymous, blind reviewers will consider abstracts for spoken
presentations
- Send your abstracts and inquiries to: caphl.workshop at gmail.com
- Along with your abstracts, please provide the following information in your
e-mail: 
Title of your paper
Author(s) and affiliation(s)
Whether your study has been published in a journal or in an edited book

Dates:
- Workshop Date: 21 May 2016*
- Submission deadline: 31 March 2016
- Notifications: 10 April 2016

*This is after xPrag Workshop entitled 'The role of pragmatic factors in child
language processing'.
http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/Homepage__Psycholinguistics/xPrag_Works
hop.html

Please find more information at: 
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dozge/caphl2016/




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