Conference: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

国家科学基金会的资助将支持将于2017年4月20日至23日在特拉华大学举行的第47届罗曼语年度语言研讨会(LSRL 47)。这一由来已久的会议是以罗曼语为主题的最大的国际语言学会议。它一直走在语言研究的前沿，将创新的方法引入到这一特定语系的研究中，并在对这些语言的研究基础上丰富了我们对语言和语言学的更广泛的理解。因此，LSRL 47的一个主要目标是将致力于罗曼蒂克语言方方面面的语言学家聚集在一起，并促进研究不同语言的研究人员之间的互动和潜在的合作，并使用一系列方法。语言能力是人类独有的，所有语言的使用者都共享。理解这一能力的各个方面是所有语言学研究的核心。随着不同类型的技术在实验、计算和神经生物科学中迅速发展，语言学领域也迅速演变为接受这些技术。因此，语言学在过去的10-15年里已经从一个主要专注于研究个别语言的领域发展成为一个影响更深远的跨学科领域。除了对特定语言的语法进行更传统的理论研究外，语言研究现在还涉及语言的心理表征和加工、第一语言和第二语言学习者的习得以及那些遵循典型和非典型发展道路的人的问题。对罗曼斯语言的研究提供了一个理想的机会，不仅可以通过调查一组相关的知名和不太知名的语言来帮助我们理解语言学理论，而且还可以努力记录不太知名的语言和方言，以及开发和应用令人兴奋的、创新的研究方法。

Funding from the National Science Foundation will support the 47th annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 47), to be held at the University of Delaware (April 20-23, 2017). This long-standing conference is the largest international meeting of linguistics focused on the Romance languages. It has consistently been at the forefront of linguistic research, introducing innovative methods to the study of this particular language family, and enriching our broader understanding of language and linguistics based on studies of these languages. A primary goal of LSRL 47 is thus to bring together linguists working on all aspects of Romance languages, and to foster interaction and potential collaboration among researchers investigating different languages, and using a range of methodologies.The capacity for language is unique to humans, and shared by speakers of all languages. Understanding this capacity in its various aspects is at the core of all linguistic research. As different types of technologies have been rapidly developing in experimental, computational and neuro-biological sciences, the field of linguistics has also been rapidly evolving to embrace these technologies. Thus, from a field focused primarily on the study of individual languages, linguistics has grown over the past 10-15 years into a much farther-reaching, interdisciplinary field. In addition to more traditional, theoretical approaches to the grammar of specific languages, linguistic research now addresses issues including the mental representation and processing of language, its acquisition by first and second language learners, and by those following typical and atypical developmental paths. The study of Romance languages offers an ideal opportunity to contribute not only to our understanding of linguistic theory by investigating a group of related well-known, as well as lesser known, languages, but also to efforts to document lesser-known languages and dialects, and to the development and application of exciting, innovative, research methodologies.