28.775, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing, Typology/Switzerland

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-775. Thu Feb 09 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.775, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:41:22
From: Sebastian Sauppe [sauppe.s at gmail.com]
Subject: Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future Directions in the Language Sciences

Full Title: Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future Directions in the Language Sciences 
Short Title: LDMTB 

Date: 15-May-2017 - 17-May-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sebastian Sauppe
Meeting Email: sauppe.s at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/linguistic-diversity-meets-the-brain.html 

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

Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

The workshop ''Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future directions in the
language sciences'' aims to bring together leading researchers from the fields
of linguistic typology and cognitive (neuro-)science of language to discuss
how these fields could interact in synergy to explore the links between
grammatical diversity in linguistics systems, cognitive processing
architectures and learning mechanisms.

Linguistic typologists and cognitive (neuro-)scientists alike have advocated
the potential of language processing (encompassing language production,
comprehension and acquisition) to explain the distribution of grammatical
structures across time and space. Discussions focus on how the diverse
grammatical structures of the world’s languages may constrain and inform
theorizing on language processing and language acquisition and on how grammars
might adapt to (neurobiological) processing constraints.

Unfortunately, and in spite of this glaring coincidence of interests, little
scientific interaction between these fields has occurred. During this
three-day workshop at the University of Zurich (May 15–17, 2017), we will be
working towards overcoming this divide. In six keynote talks, leading scholars
from linguistics and psycho- and neurolinguistics will lay out their view on
the interfaces between linguistic diversity and processing and how these
synergies could be exploited.

The keynote speakers are:

Aylin Küntay (Koç University)
Caleb Everett (University of Miami)
Florian T. Jaeger (University of Rochester)
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (University of Cologne)
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewesky (University of South Australia)
Silvia Gennari (University of York)

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions for 30-minute talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
discussion) on the interface of linguistic typology and processing research.
Specifically, we invite contributions presenting new evidence on (a) whether
and how languages’ grammars might adapt to (neurobiological) constraints on
cognitive processing architectures and external pressures or (b) whether and
how the different grammatical properties of linguistic systems might afford
the application of different processing and learning strategies.

Example topics are:

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

Abstracts should be submitted online via EasyChair as PDFs
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldmtb2017), no later than 10  March
2017, and should not exceed 500 words (excluding references and figures). The
abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee (Damian E. Blasi,
Sebastian Sauppe, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel, Martin Meyer) and decisions
will be communicated before 1 April 2017.

Attendance will be free and child care during the workshop hours will be
available upon request for a limited number of participants.

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