34.1973, Calls: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2023

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Subject: 34.1973, Calls: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2023

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Date: 17-Jun-2023
From: Caroline Andrews [caroline.andrews at uzh.ch]
Subject: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) 2023

Full Title: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning
(X-PPL) 2023
Short Title: X-PPL 2023

Date: 06-Nov-2023 - 08-Nov-2023
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Contact Person: Sebastian Sauppe
Meeting Email: x-ppl at ivs.uzh.ch
Web Site:
https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2023.html

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

Call Deadline: 05-Jul-2023

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
2023 will take place on November 6-8, 2023.

2nd Call for Papers:

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 psycholinguistic
and neurolinguistic research. This research is driven by the
recognition that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity
provides important and unique opportunities to see language processing
and language learning mechanisms at work. The bulk of processing and
acquisition research represents only a small fraction of linguistic
diversity, and this risks biasing both our theories and our research
questions. X-PPL aims to fill this gap and provide a platform for
cross-linguistic research.

Keynote speakers:

Aylin Küntay (Koç University)
Susan Goldin-Meadow (Univ. of Chicago)
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Univ. of South Australia)

X-PPL 2023 will be hosted onsite by the Center for the
Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution and the Department of
Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, and will take
place on November 06-08, 2023. However, it will be possible to
accommodate a limited number of online talks (in a hybrid format). To
make X-PPL 2023 accessible to researchers all over the world, we
intend to stream all talks and discussions. There will also be two
teaching sessions (see below).

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) methodological, cultural or other 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 and observational 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) that were chosen for their
grammatical characteristics
- Studies providing processing-based or learning-based explanations of
language change and typological distributions

In addition, there are a number of factors that make cross-linguistic
and fieldwork-based research particularly difficult. Therefore, we
also welcome abstracts addressing:

- Methodological issues which may be specific to cross-linguistic
processing and acquisition research (such as 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
- Methods for processing corpus and experimental data for
psycholinguistic goals in low-resource languages

Furthermore, we invite abstracts on plans for experimental
cross-linguistic work that the presenters would like to get feedback
on, such as from researchers new to such work that may benefit from
the community's expertise.

Abstracts should be submitted as PDFs to
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/5927/submitter, no later than
*July 5*, 2023. Abstracts may not exceed one A4 page (one additional
page for interlinear-glossed examples, references, and figures is
allowed).

On November 08, teaching sessions on building language acquisition
corpora and on running online experiments with PCIbex will be held.

More information at:
https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2023.html

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