The Role of Processing in Language Variation and Change

语言交际基本上是一种社会活动，至少涉及两个人。 一个全面的语言理论必须既解释说话者的思想，又解释说话者如何与对话者协调。 心理语言学家研究的是说话和理解语言的无意识心理过程;社会语言学家研究的是年龄、性别、阶级、种族和地区差异等社会因素如何影响语言的使用。 这两类研究者往往从各自的角度研究同一种语言现象，但很少有人尝试将这两种视角联合收割机。2011年纽约市立大学人类句子处理年会的一个特别会议将聚焦于处理在语言变异和变化中的作用。 作为美国年度心理语言学会议的一部分，它将讨论语言使用中个人和社会心理因素的相互作用。 将这两个研究群体结合在一起将为更丰富和更有基础的语言产生和理解理论提供基础。 这将支持语言技术（如机器翻译和自动摘要）和语言教学的应用。

Linguistic communication is fundamentally a social activity, involving at least two people. A comprehensive theory of language must explain both what goes on in the minds of individual speakers and how those individuals attend to and coordinate with their interlocutors. Psycholinguists study the unconscious mental processes involved in speaking and understanding language; sociolinguists study how social factors like age, gender, class, ethnicity, and regional differences influence language use. These two types of investigators often study the same linguistic phenomena from their own perspective, but there have been few attempts to combine the perspectives.A special session at the 2011 meeting of the annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will focus on the role of processing in language variation and change. As part of the premier annual psycholinguistics conference in the United States, it will address the interaction of individual and social psychological factors in language use. Bringing together these two research communities will provide a foundation for richer and better grounded theories of language production and understanding. This will support applications to language technologies (such as machine translation and automatic summarization) and language pedagogy.