Organisator(en) | Katja Münster & John Thomlinson |
Institution(en) | ZAS Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Workshop/Tagung | SSLP 2018 |
Veranstaltungsbeginn | 04.09.2018, 08.00 Uhr |
Veranstaltungsende | 05.09.2018, 18.00 Uhr |
Ort | ZAS, Schützenstraße 18, 3rd floor, Trajekte-Raum (308) |
General information
Both psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics have yielded fundamental insights regarding how language is understood in naturalistic settings. Despite this, the interaction between the two disciplines has been scarce at best. Whereas psycholinguistics has traditionally experimentally examined language comprehension independent of its socially situated environment, sociolinguists has generally ignored cognitive mechanisms that can enrich environmental influences on language use. While recent research has sought to bridge this gap, more experimental work on (computational and / or theoretical) modeling is needed that integrates how socially relevant information becomes integrated into language understanding in real time.
The goal of the current workshop is to encourage more interaction between psycho- and sociolinguistics.
We invite submissions addressing the following questions:
- How is sentence processing affected by socially situated contextual information?
- What is the time course of integration for social cues / socially relevant contextual information?
- How is situated language use mediated by other socially relavant factors?
A further goal is to solicit submissions using a variety of different methodologies, both time course measures (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG, reaction times) as well as data sets addressing variation in larger populations (i.e. different types corpora from spoken interactions, hypertext, social networks, etc.).
Invited speakers
Laura Staum Casasanto (U Chicago/Cornell U)
Shiri Lev-Ari (Royal Holloway London)
Stephanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin)
Jos van Berkum (Utrecht)
Submissions
Submissions can be submitted starting on April 1st until May 22th (deadline).
Authors can submit one page for text (12 point font) and one additional page for figures/tables/references to the following email:
submissions.SSLP2018(at)leibniz-zas.de
Authors should NOT include their name/affiliation in the text as well as gratuitous self citation. Authors should also specify whether they would prefer to have a poster or talk.
Registration
Registration for SSLP 2018 is now open. Registration is free of charge but obligatory. Please register by sending an email to submissions.sslp2018(at)leibniz-zas.de with “REGISTRATION” in the subject line and specify your name and affiliation for your name badge. Registration deadline is the 7th of August.
The program will be up shortly. We will also have a self-paid social event on the evening of the 4th of September. Information on this will also follow shortly.
Download SSLP 2018 full program with abstracts
Time | Topic |
8.30 -- 9.15 | Welcome coffee & badge pickup |
9.15 – 9.30 | Opening remarks |
9.30 – 10.30 | Keynote: Jos van Berkum: Language comprehension, emotion and sociality |
10.30 – 10.45 | Short coffee break |
10.45 – 11.15 | The impact of stereotypes and noun endings on processing gender in English: comparing native and non-native performance (J. Müller, L. Konieczny, V. Haser) |
11.15 – 11.45 | Empathy determines how intonation is used to process semantically ambiguous word (N. Esteve-Gibert, A. Schafer, B. Hemforth, C. Portes, C. Pozniak, M. D'Imperio) |
11.45 – 12.15 | Emotion, reference, and perspective-taking in children's language processing (C. G. Chambers, J. Berman, M. Khu, J. Thacker, S. A. Graham) |
12.15 – 13.45 | Lunch break |
13.45 – 14.45 | Keynote: Stefanie Jannedy: Language External Effects on Speech |
14.45 – 16.00 | Poster* session with coffee |
16.00 – 16.30 | Do posh ducks say qu[ɑ:]ck?: Investigating the cognitive representation of dialect variation (M. Austen) |
16.30 – 17.00 | Automatic vs. RT-modulated phonetic convergence over timescales and context (S. J. Tobin, M. A. Hullebus, A. I. Gafos) |
17.00 – 17.30 | Processing of case variation in German prepositional phrases (A. Engel & A. Hanulíková) |
19.00 – 23.00 | Social event: boat trip with small picnic |
Time | Topic |
8.30 – 9.00 | Coffee |
9.00 – 10.00 | Keynote: Laura Staum Casasanto: What kind of meaning is social meaning? |
10.00 – 10.30 | Coffee break |
10.30 – 11.00 | Integrating listener and speaker characteristics into the Coordinated Interplay Account (K. Münster & P. Knoeferle) |
11.00 – 11.30 | Integrating socially situated non-linguistic cues in pragmatic generalization (A. Pogue, S. Brown-Schmidt, C. Kurumada) |
11.30 – 12.00 | Effects of talker identity on speech comprehension across the lifespan (A. Hanulíková) |
12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch break |
13.30 – 14.30 | Keynote: Shiri Lev-Ari: The development of linguistic skills from a social network perspective |
14.30 – 15.00 | Coffee break |
15.00 – 15.30 | Novel lexical representations are shaped by speakers’ in-group status and learners’ in-group biases (S. Iacozza, A.S. Meyer, S. Lev-Ari) |
15.30 – 16.00 | Do these pants make me look fat? Influences of response delay on conversational meaning (A. Baltaretu & C. G. Chambers) |
16.00 – 16.30 | Variation in French partial interrogatives: social meaning as a key factor to understand sociolinguistic norm violations (G. Thiberge & B. Hemforth) |
16.30 – 17.00 | Panel discussion & concluding remarks |