28.2397, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Typology/USA

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Subject: 28.2397, Confs: Cog Sci, Morphology, Typology/USA

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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:57:22
From: Samantha Wray [swray at email.arizona.edu]
Subject: Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition Workshop

Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition Workshop 
Short Title: mtlc2017 

Date: 22-Jul-2017 - 23-Jul-2017 
Location: Lexington, KY, USA 
Contact: Adam Ussishkin 
Contact Email: morphology.typology.cognition at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://u.osu.edu/mtlc2017/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Morphology; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

In recent years there has been increasing attention to the ways in which
morphological structure is closely tied to the cognitive processing of word
structure and lexical representation. This workshop is designed to explore the
hypothesis that morphological structures interact dynamically with lexical
processing and storage, with the parameters of morphological typology being
partly dependent on the cognitive pathways for processing, storage, and
generalization of word structure, and vice versa. We are interested in the
nature of this interaction, and seek to determine how far it will take us
towards explaining system-level principles of morphological organization and
their cross-linguistic distribution. Core questions:

1. What are the cognitive pathways that lead to cross-linguistic morphological
tendencies, and how do they create persistent biases over time towards certain
language structures and not others?
2. How do system-level principles of morphological organization emerge from
interactions between the cognitive processing of language, the
representational structure of the lexicon, patterns of language use, social
factors, universal principles of grammar, and other factors?
3. Are there cross-linguistic differences in the existence of uniquely
morphological principles of organization and/or the modularity of language
architecture?
4. What is the role of language-specific distributional properties in
influencing the perception and processing of speech with respect to
morphological structure?

Questions concerning the Morphological Typology and Linguistic Cognition
Workshop can be sent to morphology.typology.cognition at gmail.com
Andrea Sims Adam Ussishkin
Invited Speakers:

Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego)
Gabriela Caballero (UC San Diego)
Greville Corbett (Univ of Surrey)
Laurie Beth Feldman (Univ at Albany, SUNY & Haskins Laboratories)
Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran Univ)
Amy LaCross (Arizona State Univ)
Gregory Stump (Univ of Kentucky)
Géraldine Walther (Univ Zürich)

Organizing Committee:

Jeff Parker (Brigham Young University)
Andrea Sims (The Ohio State University)
Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)
Samantha Wray (University of Arizona)

Program: 

We are happy to present the program for the Workshop on Morphological Typology
and Linguistic Cognition occurring in conjunction with the 2017 Linguistic
Institute. Registration is free, and can be completed here:
https://u.osu.edu/mtlc2017/registration/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Sincerely,
The Organizing Committee
Jeff Parker (Brigham Young University)
Andrea Sims (The Ohio State University)
Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona)
Samantha Wray (University of Arizona)
Ekaterina Kibler (Ohio State University)

Saturday, July 22:

8:00-8:30: Registration and coffee available

8:30-8:45: 
Andrea Sims & Adam Ussishkin
Welcome + goals of the workshop

8:45-10:15:
Laurie Feldman (University at Albany, SUNY & Haskins Laboratories):
''Challenges to form-based decompositions: An account of early morphological
processing''
Jeremy Needle (Northwestern University), Janet Pierrehumbert (University of
Oxford) and Jen Hay (University of Canterbury): ''Shallow morphological
processing in pseudowords''

10:15-10:30: Coffee

10:30-12:00:
Samantha Wray (University of Arizona) and Adam Ussishkin (University of
Arizona)
''Binyanim productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese
auditory word recognition''

Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara (University of California, Santa Cruz)
''An auditory masked priming study of nasal substitution in Cebuano''

12:00-1:00: Lunch

1:00-2:30: 
Géraldine Walther (Universität Zürich): ''Form contrasts and cognition: A
discriminative perspective''
Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht University), Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of
Potsdam), and Tom Fritzsche (University of Potsdam): ''An experimental study
of the learnability advantage of agglutinative over fusional morphology''

2:30-4:00:
Posters:
Shiloh Drake (University of Arizona)
''L1 biases in learning root-and-pattern morphology''

Hyun Jin Hwangbo (University of Delaware)
''Mental representations of allomorphy and their learnability''

Krzysztof Hwaszcz (University of Wrocław)
''The morphological organization of Polish compound words: Evidence from
masked semantic priming''

Nick Kloen (University of Arizona)
''Using cumulative root frequency to predict affix productivity in Swahili''

Hernan Labbe Grunberg (ACLC - University of Amsterdam)
''Mismatch negativity: An early ERP response to study lexical processing and
decomposition''

Jeremy Needle (Northwestern University) and Janet Pierrehumbert (University of
Oxford)
''Gendered associations of English morphology''

Shira Tal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Inbal Arnon (Hebrew University
of Jerusalem)
''Pre-Lexical processing of the passive voice in Hebrew''

Zhaohong Wu (University of Pittsburgh) and Alan Juffs (University of
Pittsburgh)
''Second language processing of English derived words: Effects of differences
in L1 typology, morphology''

4:00-5:30:
Sara Finley (Pacific Lutheran University)
''Artificial grammar learning of complex morphological categories''

Laura Gonnerman (McGill University)
Discussion paper (title TBA)

Sunday, July 23:

9:00-10:30:
Jeffrey Parker (Brigham Young University), Rob Reynolds (Brigham Young
University) and Andrea Sims (Ohio State University)
''A computational investigation of the emergence of inflection class systems
with non-homogeneous network structure''

Rob Malouf (San Diego State University) and Farrell Ackerman (University of
California, San Diego)
''Morphology gets more and more complex, unless it can't''

10:30-10:45: Coffee

10:45-12:15:
Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
''Pluralia tantum, plural dominant …: A typology of non-canonical number
properties''

Gregory Stump (University of Kentucky)
''The significance of 'potentiation' for morphological theory''

12:15-1:45: Lunch

1:45-3:15:
Gabriela Caballero (University of California, San Diego) and Vsevolod
Kapatsinski (University of Oregon)
''How agglutinative? Searching for cues to meaning in Choguita Raramurai
(Tarahumara) using an amorphous model''

Adam King (University of Arizona)
''Redundancy, informativity and word shape''

3:15-3:30: Coffee

3:30-5:00:
Amy LaCross (Arizona State University)
''The effects of typological variation and probability on segmentation errors
of disordered Spanish and Mandarin speech''

Géraldine Walther (Universität Zürich)
Discussion paper (title TBA)

5:00-5:30:
Short break out sessions and wrap up (led by Jeffrey Parker + Samantha Wray)

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