LINGUIST List 28.3475
Mon Aug 21 2017
Confs: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Typology/USA
Editor for this issue: Sarah Robinson <srobinsonlinguistlist.org>
Date: 19-Aug-2017
From: Liliana Sanchez <lsanchez
rutgers.edu>
Subject: ICA 2018 Workshop: Multiple methods for the study of indigenous languages
E-mail this message to a friend ICA 2018 Workshop: Multiple methods for the study of indigenous languages
Short Title: ICA
Date: 15-Jul-2018 - 20-Jul-2018
Location: Salamanca, USA
Contact: Liliana Sanchez
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://ica2018.es/linguistics/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Typology
Meeting Description:
Multiple methods for the study of indigenous languages is a linguistics workshop that will take place as part of the International Congress of Americanists (
http://ica2018.es).
Corpora studies allow us to analyze spontaneous and more controlled oral production data. This is particularly relevant to the study of indigenous languages. Less is known about comprehension of aural data or about interpretation and grammaticality judgments among speakers of indigenous languages. It is only very recently that the study of indigenous languages has started to benefit from experimental methods. Experimental fieldwork opens up new opportunities of bringing together typological studies, grammatical description, bilingualism studies and psycholinguistic methods that uncover grammatical processes which complement corpora studies. Procedures such as sentence/picture matching, elicited imitation, act-out techniques, controlled speeded judgment, self-paced listening, lexical decision, priming and even more sophisticated techniques such as eye-tracking can now be included. This symposium aims at bringing together researchers working with different culturally appropriate experimental techniques among indigenous populations. Our goal is to share experiences and to exchange ideas about challenges and opportunities that emerge from the indigenous communities themselves. We welcome papers that discuss how to approach experimental methods and their limits and advantages vis a vis more naturalistic corpora-based studies and how to do so in an participative way that incorporates indigenous researchers’ perspectives. If you would like to submit an abstract please register at ICA (
https://www.conftool.pro/ica2018/index.php?page=register&lang=1) and upload a 1-page abstract (excluding examples, graphics and references). If you have any questions please contact Marcus Maia (UFRJ, Brazil) or Liliana Sanchez (Rutgers U, USA) at methods.ica
gmail.com.
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