37.802, Confs: Register Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing (Germany)

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Date: 24-Feb-2026
From: Kateryna Iefremenko [iefremenko at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: Register Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing


Register Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing
Short Title: RESD 2026

Date: 07-Sep-2026 - 08-Sep-2026
Location: Berlin, Germany
Meeting URL:
https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/workshop-register-effects-in-sentence-and-discourse-processing/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition;
Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 08-May-2026

Organizers: Natalia Gagarina & Kateryna Iefremenko (ZAS), Pia
Knoeferle, Mingya Liu, Katja Maquate, Valentina Nicole Pescuma &
Stephanie Rotter (HU)
Date: September 7-8, 2026
Venue: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Conference Room,
Ground floor, Meierottostraße 8, 10719 Berlin, Germany
Website:
https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/event/workshop-register-effects-in-sentence-and-discourse-processing/
The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Leibniz-Centre General
Linguistics (ZAS) are pleased to announce the workshop “Register
Effects in Sentence and Discourse Processing (RESD 2026)”, which will
take place in Berlin, Germany on September 7-8, 2026. The workshop is
an event of the Collaborative Research Centre 1412 ‘Register’
(https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/de/).
A growing body of linguistic research has focused on understanding
register, i.e., those aspects of intraindividual variation in
linguistic behavior that are influenced by situational and functional
settings (Lüdeling et al., 2022, 2024). How language users produce,
process and acquire register variants across situations is one of the
core questions in register research (e.g., Kempe et al., 2024; Kirk et
al. 2021; Pescuma et al., 2025). Previous literature (Pescuma et al.,
2024) lays the groundwork for examining how situational-functional
parameters shape phonetic, morphosyntactic, lexical, and pragmatic
choices, and for investigating these effects within current theories
of formal grammar, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics.
It is generally assumed that dimensions of world knowledge, discourse
context as well as local sentential context affect language
processing, comprehension and production. Comprehenders adjust their
expectations about probable sentence, discourse, and dialogue
continuations based on language-external and -internal cues (Levy,
2008; Xiang & Kuperberg, 2015), and different choices give rise to
differences in social meanings (Beltrama, Solt & Burnett; 2022,
Hall-Lew, 2021). However, few approaches and models address register
effects in language processing or their relationship with general
cognitive aspects such as prediction, memory, and priming (Pescuma et
al., 2024, 2025; Venhuizen et al., 2018; Bentum et al. 2019, 2022).
The objective of the present workshop is to bring together researchers
from different disciplines to discuss common interests around the
topic of register effects in language processing. Combining both
register and processing, we are interested in the questions of which
situational-functional parameters (and their values) of broad
discourse context and which register-related properties of narrow
linguistic context influence language processing, how the effects
(reading times, EEG, eye movement, etc.) differ, whether and how they
interact with one another in any principled manner, how social
meanings differ in the case of expected vs. unexpected utterances, and
which individual differences are relevant for register variation
(Maquate et al., 2024).
Invited Speakers:
 - Martijn Bentum (Radboud University,
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/bentum-m)
 - Vera Kempe (Abertay University,
https://www.abertay.ac.uk/staff-search/professor-vera-kempe)
 - Ming Xiang (University of Chicago,
https://linguistics.uchicago.edu/people/ming-xiang)
In addition, we invite abstract submissions for talks and poster
presentations on the topic from conceptual or methodological
perspectives, including (but not limited to) corpus, experimental, or
computational work. Early-stage work and research in progress is
welcome; in addition, an event for early career researchers (ECR) will
be organized as well as a best ECR presentation award (talk or poster,
ECR as first author).
Key Dates:
Abstract submissions open: February 28, 2026
Abstract submissions due: May 8, 2026
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2026
Workshop: September 7-8, 2026
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be a maximum of one (1) A4 page in length (11 pt
Arial font, 1-inch margins, single line spacing), with examples, data,
figures and/or references (in APA format) on a second optional page,
in two versions (one anonymized, the other with names, affiliations,
the email addresses of corresponding authors, each as one PDF). Please
send your submission to the workshop e-mail address:
resd26-sfb1412 at lists.hu-berlin.de.
Publication Plan:
We intend to publish a proceedings volume in the journal “Register
Aspects of Language in Situation (REALIS)” consisting of short papers
(up to 10 pages) based on the contributions presented at the workshop
(https://realis.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/index.php/REALIS).
Attendance and registration: The attendance is free of charge.
Information on the registration will be provided closer to the
workshop dates.
Contact: For any inquiries, please contact the workshop organizers at
resd26-sfb1412 at lists.hu-berlin.de.



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