Conference: Prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb-initial languages

会议：动词首字母语言中的韵律和心理语言学联系

• 批准号: 2314322
• 负责人: Kristine Yu
• 金额: $ 4.26万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Prosodic; psycholinguistic; connections; verb; Conference; Prosodic; psycholinguistic; connections; verb

Some languages around the world have the special linguistic property of being verb initial in word order, e.g., “Read Maria the book” rather than “Maria read the book". In fact, languages belonging to a diverse variety of language families are verb initial. Better understanding the commonalities and differences between languages that are typologically similar yet unrelated can advance linguistic theory. To foster this understanding, this special session on prosody and psycholinguistics in verb-initial languages is held during the annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. The special session brings together researchers who work on verb-initial languages in Austronesian and other language families, creating a space for scholars who do not normally collaborate to share ideas and perspectives, and to develop new collaborations. It also introduces researchers working on understudied verb-initial languages to current methods and theories in prosody and psycholinguistics, with the aim of encouraging future work on a larger pool of languages. In addition, the conference and special session feature work by junior scholars and scholars from underrepresented communities.This project supports the special session “Prosodic and psycholinguistic connections in verb initial languages” to be held at the annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. The conference regularly sees approximately 40–60 attendees (faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students) from around the world. The special session is designed to bring in researchers who work on prosody and psycholinguistics in verb-initial languages to help advance theoretical work by creating a space for scholars who do not normally collaborate to share ideas and perspectives. The special session fosters discussion of the commonalities in the comprehension and production of verb-initial languages and the prosody of verb-initial languages. These discussions lead to studies that, in turn, inform existing theories of sentence processing and prosody, which have been developed primarily based on verb-medial and verb-final languages.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

世界各地的某些语言具有特殊的语言特性，即以单词顺序为动词，例如“阅读玛丽亚书”，而不是“玛丽亚读书”。实际上，属于多种语言家族的语言是动词初始的。更好地理解类型相似但无关的语言之间的共同点和差异可以推进语言理论。为了促进这种理解，在奥地利语正式语言学协会的年度会议期间举行了有关动词至关重语言的韵律和心理语言学的特别会议。特别会议汇集了在南方和其他语言家族中从事动词初始语言工作的研究人员，为那些通常不通常协作以分享思想和观点并发展新合作的学者创造了一个空间。它还介绍了从事理解动词初始语言的研究人员，以韵律和心理语言学中的理论和理论，以鼓励对更大语言的未来工作。此外，会议和特别会议的特色是来自代表性不足的社区的初级学者和学者的工作。该项目支持在奥地利语正式语言学协会年会上举行的特别会议“动词初始语言中的韵律和心理语言联系”。会议定期看到来自世界各地的大约40-60名与会者（教职员工，博士后，研究生和本科生）。特别会议旨在吸引研究人员，以动词至关重要的语言从事韵律和心理语言学，以通过为那些通常不合作共享思想和观点的学者创造空间来帮助推进理论工作。特别会议促进了关于动词至关类语言理解和产生的共同点的讨论以及动词至关性语言的韵律。这些讨论导致研究依次为现有的句子处理和韵律理论提供信息，这些理论主要是基于动词中性和动词 - 最终语言开发的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估来获得的支持。