31.2531, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 31.2531, Calls: Ling Theories, Morphology, Psycholing, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:48:00
From: Elyesa Seidel [elyesa.seidel at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Eye-Tracking and Language Production

 
Full Title: Eye-Tracking and Language Production 

Date: 24-Feb-2021 - 26-Feb-2021
Location: Freiburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Martina Penke
Meeting Email: martina.penke at uni-koeln.de

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Psycholinguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

During the last two decades, the application of eye-tracking techniques to
language production research has been established as a pivotal method in
psycholinguistics. In particular, monitoring eye-movements during the
completion of picture description tasks has provided invaluable insights into
sentence-level planning, leading to the formation of two different approaches:
the linear incrementality approach and the hierarchical incrementality
approach. Supporters of linear incrementality assume that sentences are
planned word-by-word and that speakers start the utterance with the encoding
of a nominal element (Gleitman et al. 2007). The choice of the first element
in the utterance is assumed to be guided by its accessibility. As a result,
the first element might be the most accessible element in the utterance.
Accessibility is assumed to be influenced by various factors, such as animacy
(Branigan et al. 2008) and visual prominence (Gleitman et al. 2007). The
formulation of other elements in the utterance is postponed until after speech
onset. Thus, linear incrementality assumes that non-nominal elements, such as
verbs, are planned shortly before they are uttered. By contrast, hierarchical
incrementality hypothesizes advanced hierarchical planning of a relational
structure of a depicted event (Griffin & Bock 2000). Hence, speakers following
this strategy create a representation of the utterance before the onset of
speech. Structural planning might either start with the relationship between
agent and patient (weak hierarchical incrementality) or with the verb (strong
hierarchical incrementality).

There is evidence that the different approaches to sentence-level planning are
triggered by properties of a given language. Thus, language-specific features,
such as word order and morphological case marking modulate language
production. For instance, it has been shown that speakers of verb-initial
languages like Tagalog (Austronesian) and Tzeltal (Mayan) follow the mechanism
of structural pre-planning as shown by eye-tracking during production studies
(Sauppe et al. 2013, Norcliffe & Konopka 2015). For subject-initial languages
like German, findings are mixed. Sauppe (2017) shows that, depending on the
position of the verb (final or medial), either linear incremental strategy or
hierarchical incremental strategy is applied.
The goal of our workshop is to connect researchers that employ eye-tracking
and language production in order to gain deeper insight into sentence-level
planning.


Call for Papers: 

We invite submissions for 20-minute presentations (plus 10-minute discussion).
Topics should include but are not limited to experimental studies on sentence
production (eye-movement monitoring, pupillometry) and speech planning
strategies. 

Abstracts should not exceed 1 page (A4, Times New Roman, 12-point font,
single-spaced). Graphs and references can be included on a second page. Please
send your abstract electronically as a PDF to Elyesa Seidel
(elyesa.seidel at uni-koeln.de). 

The workshop will be part of the 43rd annual meeting of the German Linguistic
Society (DGfS) to be held at the University of Freiburg. Presenters will have
to register for the conference and are not supposed to present a talk at any
of the parallel DGfS workshops, according to the DGfS regulations. 

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 Euro are available for accepted
contributions by DGfS members without/with low income.

References: 
Branigan, H. P., Pickering, M. J., & Tanaka, M. (2008). Contributions of
animacy to grammatical function assignment and word order during production.
Lingua, 118(2), 172–189. 
Gleitman, L. R., January, D., Nappa, R., & Trueswell, J. C. (2007). On the
give and take between event apprehension and utterance formulation. Journal of
Memory and Language, 57(4), 544–569. 
Griffin, Z. M., & Bock, K. (2000). What the eyes say about speaking.
Psychological Science, 11(4), 274–279. 
Norcliffe, E., & Konopka, A. E. (2015). Vision and language in
cross-linguistic research on sentence production. In R. K. Mishra, N.
Srinivasan, & F. Huettig (Eds.), Attention and vision in language processing
(pp. 77–96). Springer India.
Sauppe, S. (2017). Word order and voice influence the timing of verb planning
in German sentence production. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1 12.
Sauppe, S., Norcliffe, E., Konopka, A. E., Van Valin, R. D., & Levinson, S. C.
(2013). Dependencies first: Eye tracking evidence from sentence production in
Tagalog. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
35(35).




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