33.1697, Calls: Cognitive Sci., Lang. Acquisition, Neuroling., Psycholing., Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 33.1697, Calls: Cognitive Sci., Lang. Acquisition, Neuroling., Psycholing., Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 21:10:23
From: Sebastian Sauppe [sebastian.sauppe at uzh.ch]
Subject: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2022

 Full Title: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2022 
Short Title: X-PPL 

Date: 12-Sep-2022 - 13-Sep-2022
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Sebastian Sauppe
Meeting Email: sebastian.sauppe at uzh.ch
Web Site: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2022.html 

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

Call Deadline: 31-May-2022 

Meeting Description:

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL)
brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the
diversity of languages in the scope of experimental or corpus research on
adults or language acquisition. This research is driven by the recognition
that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity represents different
opportunities to see processing and learning mechanisms at work.  The bulk of
processing and acquisition research represents only a small fraction of
linguistic diversity, and this risks skewing both our theories and research
questions.
 
The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL)
aims to fill this gap and provide a platform for cross-linguistic research on
language processing and learning. X-PPL 2022 will be hosted by the Center for
the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution and the Department of
Comparative Language Science at the University of Zurich, and will take place
on September 12-13, 2022. 

The first day of the workshop (September 12) will be held online to allow
everyone to present and participate in X-PPL irrespective of where they are
located. The second day (September 13) will be held onsite in Zurich to
facilitate in-person discussions and conversations. Talks will still be
streamed to make it possible to watch from anywhere in the world.

Keynote speakers:
Shanley Allen (Technical University Kaiserslautern)
Matthew Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz)

2nd Call for Papers:
 
We invite contributions for 20-minute talks on the interface of linguistic
diversity and language processing (encompassing production and comprehension),
and language learning with the goal of understanding linguistic ontogeny
(first language acquisition) and phylogeny (typological diversification,
structural evolution). We also invite abstracts on (a) issues that research on
language processing and learning outside of the lab might encounter or (b)
plans for cross-linguistic work (see below). 
 
Specifically, we invite contributions presenting new evidence on:
- Whether and how grammars are shaped by (cognitive and neurobiological)
constraints on processing and learning, and by external pressures
- Whether and how the different grammatical properties of linguistic systems
shape processing and learning strategies
 
We welcome in particular:
- Experimental studies on under-researched languages providing implications
for processing and acquisition theories
- Studies examining production, comprehension, or (L1) developmental phenomena
in one or more language(s) chosen for differences in their grammatical
characteristics
- Studies providing processing-based or learning-based explanations of
language change and typological distributions
 
In addition, we understand that the COVID-19 pandemic has made and is
continuing to make cross-linguistic and fieldwork-based research particularly
difficult. Therefore, we also welcome abstracts which address:
- Methodological issues which may be specific to cross-linguistic processing
(small to non-existent corpora resources, varying literacy levels among
speakers, participants who aren’t familiar with experiments/technology, etc.)
and the solutions which researchers have found to address these issues
- Plans for experimental cross-linguistic work that the presenters would like
to get feedback on, such as from researchers new to experimental
cross-linguistic work that may particularly benefit from the expertise of the
community.
- Methods for processing corpus data for psycholinguistic goals in
low-resource languages
 
Abstracts should be submitted as PDFs to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xppl2022, no later than May 31, 2022.
Abstracts should not exceed one A4 page (one additional page for
interlinear-glossed examples, references, and figures is allowed).



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