July 9, 2024 - July 11, 2024
https://sites.google.com/view/psychoslav-2024
The Centre for Corpus and Experimental Research on Slavic languages “Slavicus” of the University of Wrocław is pleased to invite you to Psycholinguistics of Slavic Languages 2024 (PsychoSlav) conference which will take place (in person) at the University of Wrocław on July 9-11, 2024.
The conference, firstly organized at the University of Tübingen in 2022, aims at bringing together researchers studying Slavic languages from psycholinguistic perspective. The goal of the conference is to promote the discussion between such scholars and possibly lead to some future collaborative crosslinguistic projects.
The questions PsychoSlav deals with include:
- How does research on Slavic languages impact the general psycholinguistic theories?
- Are the findings on typologically different languages replicable on Slavic?
- How can Slavic languages broaden the scope of psycholinguistic research?
- Do Slavic languages bring new research questions in play due to their specific structure?
- Are there any practical constraints to the psycholinguistic research on Slavic languages?
- If yes, is there any way to overcome them in the near future?
Paper proposals focusing on any topic of language processing on various aspects of Slavic languages, as well as on their use and acquisition, are welcome.
Talks will be 20-minute long plus 10 minutes for discussion. Also, we will have an one-hour long poster session.
We look forward to receiving abstracts addressing one or more of the following strands using new experimental methods:
- phonetics
- phonology
- morphosyntax
- semantics
- pragmatics
- first and second language acquisition
We invite submissions about ongoing work. Abstracts on such projects should present detailed information on the methodological aspects (sample, technique used), planned analysis, and theoretical relevance.
Special Session
We are planning a special session on Agreement Attraction in Slavic languages: Psycholinguistic perspectives chaired by Professor Tanya Ivanova Sullivan (University of California, Los Angeles). If you would like to submit an abstract related to this topic, please indicate so in the abstract submission system. A detailed description of the workshop is provided below.
Hands-on workshop
We are also planning a hands-on workshop on Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych (James Brand from Charles University). A detailed description of the workshop is available below.
Plenary speakers
Tanya Ivanova Sullivan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Marit Westergaard (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Christina Manouilidou (University of Ljubljana)
Jakub Szewczyk (Jagiellonian University)
Ana Matić Škorić (University of Zagreb, representing MultiplEYE COST action)
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2024
Notification of acceptance to authors: May 15, 2024
Conference PsychoSlav 2024: July 9-11, 2024
Language
The conference will be held in English.
Organizers
Bożena Rozwadowska
Dorota Klimek-Jankowska
Alberto Frasson
Natalia Shlikhutka
Martin Wągiel
Krzysztof Migdalski
Hanna Kędzierska
Krzysztof Hwaszcz
Anna Borkowska
Wojciech Milczarski
Piotr Gulgowski
Paweł Lisik
Contact e-mail:
[email protected]
*Special Session*
Agreement Attraction in Slavic languages: Psycholinguistic perspectives
Chair: Professor Tanya Ivanova Sullivan (University of California, Los Angeles)
One of the widely studied phenomenon in psycholinguistics is agreement attraction, which refers to the computation of subject-verb agreement disrupted by the presence of syntactically illicit nouns. However, attraction does not uniformly impact grammatical dependencies: while subject-verb agreement typically shows number attraction, anaphoric dependencies with reflexives and pronouns display a mixed profile (Dillon et al., 2013; Patil et al., 2016; Sturt, 2003). Although traditionally attraction scholarship has focused on Germanic and Romance languages, investigations of Russian and Czech have contributed new insights into the strength of different interference accounts (Laurinavichyute et al., 2017), the impact of case syncretism on attraction effects (Slioussar, 2018), and the uniformity of attraction effects cross-linguistically (Chromý et al., 2023; Lacina, 2023; Lacina & Chromý, 2022).
The mixed picture emerging from attraction studies across languages, as well as the many unanswered questions about the nature and directionality of attraction motivated the organization of this Special Session as a forum for discussion of comprehension of agreement attraction in Slavic. We welcome submissions addressing but not limited to the following questions:
a) Vulnerability of different grammatical dependencies to agreement attraction in Slavic languages – universal or language-specific?
b) Can cross-linguistic studies of two Slavic languages or a Slavic and non-Slavic language throw more light on the underlying causes of resilience to attraction effects?
c) What is the role of experimental design, task demands and response bias in attraction effects?
d) What can methods with different temporal resolution (self-paced reading and eye-tracking) reveal about the existence and directionality of attraction?
e) If case information is found to modulate attraction effects, what are the precise mechanisms responsible for it?
f) Are cognitive factors, such as memory and attention, predictors of attraction effects?
g) How can scholarship on agreement attraction in Slavic contribute to the ongoing debate about encoding-based vs. cue-based retrieval account of attraction?
*Hands-on workshop*
Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych
Dr James Brand (Charles University)
A growing trend in linguistics has been the recent shift towards using online based research. This has largely been driven by the wealth of resources that now exist that make conducting research easy, efficient and even enjoyable. One particularly popular tool is JsPsych, which can be used to program experiments, which can range from the simple (e.g. lexical decision) to complex (e.g. eye-tracking), thus researchers have very few restrictions on what types of experiments they can now run online. There are also fewer limitations in terms of the types of data that can be collected from participants (e.g. audio, text, video), all through a web browser. This means that participants can take part in online research anywhere in the world, on a computer or a mobile device, and of course in a laboratory too. The main tricky thing is learning how to use JsPsych… however it is just a learning curve, and once you have an understanding of the basics you can rapidly learn how to program more complex experiments. This will be the core goal of the workshop – to acquire the basics so you can achieve the complex.
To attend this workshop you do not need to have any experience with programming or online research in general. If you have experience working with programming languages, you will still hopefully learn lots of new things.
The materials will be focused on learning from the bottom up, so the development of skills and knowledge through practical experience will be key – everybody is welcome and will be supported. You simply need a laptop and enthusiasm.
This workshop will aim to provide you with the following learning outcomes:
- A conceptual understanding of online research workflows
- A practical knowledge of how JsPsych works
- A technical capacity to run your own research online
The structure of the workshop is as follows:
i. Introduction to online research, JsPsych and Cognition.run. You will be able to get used to the different interfaces used to build your experiments and understand how JsPsych code works.
ii. Workflows for building experiments. You will be able to put together the basic building blocks of an experiment, using different plugins to make a working psycholinguistics experiment. If you have any questions before the workshop please contact James at [email protected]
Submission instructions:
Submission guidelines
Submissions are restricted to at most two per applicant and each applicant may submit only one abstract as a first author. It is possible to apply either with an oral presentation or with a poster. Please, indicate the preferred form of your presentation in the submission.
Please, make sure your abstract follows these guidelines:
Abstracts should be no longer than two pages. The first page should contain the text of the abstract (see below). The second page is optional and may be used for additional information such as plots, tables, example stimuli, references etc.
Abstracts are submitted in a fully anonymized form in the .pdf format via EasyAbs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/psychoslav2024
Page format: A4, 2.54cm (one inch) margins on all sides, 12-point font (Helvetica or Arial), single line spacing. Do not use page numbers or any other page decoration.
First page format:
First line for the title in bold face.
Two empty lines reserved for authors’ names and affiliations and first author’s email address (in case there are more authors, leave enough empty lines to fit all the names and affiliations in the de-anonymized version).
An additional empty line separating the title and authors from the text of the abstract.
The main text of the abstract (use justified text with automatic hyphenation).
Use italics for marking linguistic examples in the text.
Submissions open: Jan. 1, 2024 - April 14, 2024
Abstract review period: April 15, 2024 - May 12, 2024