30.4974, Calls: General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 30.4974, Calls: General Linguistics, Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:29:58
From: Larissa Specht [larissa.specht at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification

 
Full Title: Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification 
Short Title: TExMod2020 

Date: 25-Jun-2020 - 27-Jun-2020
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Larissa Specht
Meeting Email: approachestomodification at gmail.com
Web Site: http://approachestomodification.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

Modification constitutes a field of linguistic research at the interfaces of
syntax, semantics, and discourse. Modification poses significant challenges to
linguistic theory because modifiers (e.g., adverbs) demonstrate a level of
flexibility in syntactic distribution that is not reminiscent of any other
syntactic category. It is for this reason that the relation between word order
and interpretation of modified structures is a question that is widely
discussed (see e.g. Jackendoff, 1972; Jackendoff, 1974; Dowty et al., 1981;
Larson, 1998; Landman 2001; Frey, 2003; McNally & Boleda, 2004; Morzycki,
2005; Morzycki, 2006; Wyner 2006; Ernst, 2014).

Furthermore, the question arises how order variation of modifiers is reflected
in language processing. Despite the abundance of theoretical studies on
modification, experimental work in psycholinguistics started only recently to
focus on these issues. Nevertheless, some general characteristics emerge from
existing psycholinguistic work. Studies on syntactic processing suggest that
adjuncts are processed differently than arguments (Clifton, Speer, & Abney,
1991; Liversedge, Pickering, Branigan, & van Gompel, 1998). Looking at recent
experimental data and computational work on processing of adverbials and
adjectives (e.g., Hahn et al., 2018; Franke et al. 2019; Scontras, Degen &
Goodman, 2017; Störzer & Stolterfoht, 2013, 2018; Stolterfoht, Gauza, &
Störzer, 2019), it appears that models of adjunct processing (e.g., Construal;
Frazier & Clifton Jr., 1995; Frazier & Clifton, 1997) cannot capture the whole
range of results. It seems that the processing of adjuncts requires a
multifactorial explanation in which syntactic, semantic, and information
structural factors are integrated.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on theoretical
approaches to the interplay of syntax, semantics and information structure in
modification, and psycholinguists concerned with the processing of adjectives,
adverbials, adjunct clauses etc. to discuss new directions in modelling the
interpretation and processing of modification.


Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for oral presentations of one-page length, an additional
page for supplementary material, figures and references is allowed. Abstracts
must be submitted to be in PDF, DIN A4, 12pt, single spaced, 2.5cm or 1-inch
margins on all sides.

Please submit your abstract only via the EasyChair system. 
Follow this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=texmod2020




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