31.260, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Translation, Typology / Poland

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Subject: 31.260, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Translation, Typology / Poland

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:39:55
From: Bartosz Brzoza [bbrzoza at wa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Inclusive linguistic research matters: underrepresented populations, unexplored contexts and emerging types of data

 
Full Title: Inclusive linguistic research matters: underrepresented populations, unexplored contexts and emerging types of data 

Date: 17-Sep-2020 - 20-Sep-2020
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Bartosz Brzoza
Meeting Email: bbrzoza at wa.amu.edu.pl
Web Site: http://wa.amu.edu.pl/plm/2020/PLM2020_Thematic_sessions 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Translation; Typology 

Call Deadline: 22-Mar-2020 

Meeting Description:

We invite original contributions from various linguistic disciplines that
showcase undertaking new challenges in linguistic enquiry as well as
methodological papers that discuss relevant current problems in language
research. Priority will be given to papers revolving around the following
aspects:
- research on language that goes beyond Western-centric bias,
- studies investigating language processing and use among migrants, heritage
language learners, bi- and multilinguals, people of complex ethnic
backgrounds, older speakers, people with various language or cognitive
dysfunctions, non-human speakers (e.g. speech generated or mediated by
machines).

Linguistic research into non-typical populations or less common study contexts
will be given priority in this session. Replications of linguistic research in
novel context and with understudied groups of participants will be of interest
too. The call is open to researchers from various branches of linguistics,
e.g. phonetics, sociolinguistics, areal linguistics, discourse analysis as
well as interdisciplinary teams of scholars. The session is inclusive and
revolves around common problems rather than specific branches of linguistics.
Its aim is to promote inclusivity in contemporary linguistic research.


Session organisers: Bartosz Brzoza (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) &
Anita Wagner (University of Groningen)
Contact email: bbrzoza at wa.amu.edu.pl

The world of linguistics is changing rapidly. Over the last 50 years, the
linguistic landscape and reality as well as the way in which linguists study
language and related phenomena have immensely changed. The use of advanced
machinery, application of computational algorithms in models, common use of
statistical software and the currently observed data sprawl all pose new
challenges to linguists and invite exciting novel research opportunities.

Although many old topics are currently verified with new approaches and
techniques, linguistic research tends to turn a blind eye to certain types of
inquiries and neglects several recent challenges or certain research contexts
and groups of participants. This might result in getting an unbalanced and
illusory picture of language processing and behaviour.

Gaps in linguistic research comprise, among others, studying underrepresented
populations, studying participants in ecologically valid circumstances rather
than the laboratory setting, studying linguistic interactions embedded
in social, economic or political context and conducting systematic
longitudinal research. Moreover, the study of language processing and use
frequently remains the study of undergraduate behaviour. More generally,
linguists tend to rely on data elicited from students, better educated
populations, young speakers and inhabitants of the so-called privileged first
world in which majority of them work. Underrepresented populations include
older speakers, individuals with learning difficulties or clinical
populations, people of varied ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, participants
from non-academic, uneducated backgrounds, etc. Omission of these groups might
lead to sampling bias and blur the true picture of human linguistic behaviour.

We invite original contributions from various linguistic disciplines that
showcase undertaking new challenges in linguistic enquiry as well as
methodological papers that discuss relevant current problems in language
research. Priority will be given to papers revolving around the following
aspects:
- research on language that goes beyond Western-centric bias,
- studies investigating language processing and use among migrants, heritage
language learners, bi- and multilinguals, people of complex ethnic
backgrounds, older speakers, people with various language or cognitive
dysfunctions, non-human speakers (e.g. speech generated or mediated by
machines).

Linguistic research into non-typical populations or less common study contexts
will be given priority in this session. Replications of linguistic research in
novel context and with understudied groups of participants will be of interest
too. The call is open to researchers from various branches of linguistics,
e.g. phonetics, sociolinguistics, areal linguistics, discourse analysis as
well as interdisciplinary teams of scholars. The session is inclusive and
revolves around common problems rather than specific branches of linguistics.
Its aim is to promote inclusivity in contemporary linguistic research.

The abstracts should follow the general session guidelines and should be
submitted via the conference EasyChair platform.

Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: 22 March 2020
Notification of acceptance for papers: mid-April 2020




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