Call for papers

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 9-11 July 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 here.

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 here.

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  (deadline extended till April 14, 2024)
Notification of acceptance to authors: May 17, 2024
Conference PsychoSlav 2024: July 9-11, 2024

Language

The conference will be held in English.

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 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.