Chinese linguistics is highly interdisciplinary as it lies at the intersection of humanities and social sciences related to the study of Chinese language, culture, society, and mind.
These Workshops on Data and Methods in Chinese Linguistics will bring insights from data science to shed light on research methods of Chinese (psycho)linguistics, and hopes to draw scholars’ attention to research methods and data analysis, which are at the center of the current methodological movements across disciplines. The Workshops will feature hands-on exercises and invited talks on Characters and grammar: How linguists can become more fluent in R by James Myers (National Chung-Cheng University), and The amazing saga of the Chinese relative clause: A cautionary tale for tomorrow's psycholinguists by Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam). The workshops will take place both virtually and in the Social Science Research Commons of IUB for those who plan to attend in person.
The theme of this year’s North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics—“Data, Methods, and Application in Chinese Linguistics”—is meant to draw attention to the nature of different types of linguistic data, the ways these can be handled and analyzed, and the applications of these fundamental methodological issues in linguistics and language pedagogy. Through these workshops, we hope to help researchers share their practices of data processing by paying attention to the methods in dealing with linguistic data.