36.689, Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025 (Switzerland)

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Subject: 36.689, Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025 (Switzerland)

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Date: 24-Feb-2025
From: Julia Ulrich [x-ppl at isle.uzh.ch]
Subject: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025 (Switzerland)


Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025
(Switzerland)
Short Title: X-PPL

Date: 01-Sep-2025 - 02-Sep-2025
Location: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Contact Email: x-ppl at isle.uzh.ch
Meeting URL: https://www.isle.uzh.ch/en/events/x-ppl2025.html

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

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 psycholinguistics
and the neuroscience of language. The research of this community 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
and to gain deeper insights into the balance between universal and
varying dimensions of these mechanisms. The bulk of processing and
acquisition research represents only a small fraction of linguistic
diversity, which risks biasing both our theories and our research
questions.
The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop
(X-PPL) aims to overcome this bias and to fill a gap in the conference
landscape by providing a platform for cross-linguistic research on
language processing and learning.
X-PPL 2025 will be hosted by the Institute for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Language Evolution at the University of Zurich, and will take
place on September 1 and 2, 2025.
Keynote speakers:
- Sudha Arunachalam (New York University)
- Lars Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences & University Hospital Münster)
X-PPL 2025 will be held onsite in Zurich, Switzerland. However, it
will be possible to accommodate a *limited* number of online talks (in
a hybrid format). To make X-PPL 2025 accessible to researchers all
over the world, we will stream all talks and discussions. However, we
strongly encourage presenters and attendees to be present in Zurich to
enhance networking opportunities and foster scientific exchange.
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 several factors that make cross-linguistic and
fieldwork-based research particularly challenging. Therefore, we also
welcome abstracts that address:
- 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
We also invite abstracts on 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.
Abstracts should be submitted at this link:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/X-PPL2025/
Call Deadline: 31-May-2025
Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF and should not exceed
500 words or one A4 page, 12 pt font size (plus one optional
additional page for interlinear-glossed examples, references, and
figures). The language(s) studied should be mentioned in the abstract.
Abstracts should be fully anonymized. The organising committee will
then select contributions for 20 min talks.
Enquiries can be sent to x-ppl AT isle.uzh.ch.



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