36.1854, Confs: Tracing patterns across modalities – similarities and differences in speaking, writing and signing (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Date: 14-Jun-2025
From: Dominic Schmitz [Dominic.Schmitz at hhu.de]
Subject: Tracing patterns across modalities – similarities and differences in speaking, writing and signing (DGfS 2026 Workshop)


Tracing patterns across modalities – similarities and differences in
speaking, writing and signing (DGfS 2026 Workshop)
Short Title: TraPTri2026

Date: 24-Feb-2026 - 27-Feb-2026
Location: Trier, Germany
Contact: Julia Muschalik
Contact Email: julia.muschalik at hhu.de
Meeting URL: https://tracingpatterns.phil.hhu.de/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Psycholinguistics

Submission Deadline: 24-Aug-2025

This short workshop is organized as part of the 48th Annual Conference
of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2026).
Organizers:
 - Julia Muschalik (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
 - Dinah Baer-Henney (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf/Ruhr
University Bochum)
 - Dominic Schmitz (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Call for Papers:
There is ever-growing evidence of a direct influence of central
processing stages on the peripheral stages in language production
across modalities. In other words, structural properties directly
modulate the linguistic output, which mostly surfaces as variation in
the output signal. Although processing stages are generally regarded
as highly integrated, the mere existence of such direct influence
challenges most traditional theoretical approaches, according to which
central processing would be complete before the initiation of
peripheral production processes, such as articulation for speaking or
hand movements for both writing and signing.
For the spoken modality, we find traces of semantic transparency,
morphological status, or syntactic environment in the acoustic signal
(e.g., Schmitz et al. 2021). Similarly, written and signed language
production have been shown to be susceptible to sublexical differences
(e.g., Börstell et al. 2024; Muschalik et al. 2024). It seems there
are striking parallels between the modalities, yet findings are still
mostly discussed modality-specific and independently of one another.
We argue that the traces of central processing we find in the
cross-modal periphery can be used to shed further light on more
general patterns in language processing and the intricate interplay
between language modalities.
This workshop aims at taking a cross-modal perspective, highlighting
similarities and differences between existing modality-specific
findings, to discuss language production as a modality-spanning
cognitive process. The workshop invites researchers with different
areas of complementary expertise, ranging from spoken and written to
signed language processing. Contributions that may build bridges
between modalities and invite cross-modal comparison are particularly
welcome.
Invited Speakers:
 - Anastasia Bauer (University of Cologne)
 - Svetlana Pinet (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language)
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be no longer than one page, with references and any
additional material permitted on a second page. Submissions must be
formatted for A4 paper with 1-inch margins on all sides and set in
Times New Roman, at a minimum font size of 11 points. References
should follow either APA style or the Unified Stylesheet for
Linguistics. Abstracts must be fully anonymised and submitted as a
single PDF file. While the working language of both abstracts and the
workshop is English, research on any language is welcome. Find more
information at: https://tracingpatterns.phil.hhu.de/call-for-papers/
Please use our EasyAbs page for submitting your abstract:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TraPTri2026/



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