FASL 2017 Conference: Acquisition and Processing of Slavic Languages

为了全面了解人类语言的本质，语言学家必须研究不同语言群体和语系的语言。斯拉夫语言拥有许多有趣的特性，而这些特性是更普遍研究的西方语言（如英语）所不具备的。例如，斯拉夫语言的特点是非常丰富的名词和动词形态系统，以及相对自由的词序，词序排列和信息结构之间有密切的关系。直到最近，大多数对斯拉夫语言的研究都是从理论语言学的角度进行的，但近年来对斯拉夫语言的习得和处理的研究有所增加，这反映了语言学研究越来越倾向于理论和实验方法的整合。最终，要全面理解语言，就需要理解语法和处理过程，理解两者之间的关系，以及儿童的语法和处理过程是如何发展的（单语和双语，通常是发展中的）。对斯拉夫语言的习得和处理的理论研究促进了我们对人类思维如何运作以及学习如何进行的理解。此外，在双语情况下或在语言障碍的情况下调查斯拉夫语言的发展对识字发展、保护遗产语言以及识别和治疗语言障碍等领域具有实际意义。大多数关于语言障碍的研究都是用英语和其他西方语言进行的;研究斯拉夫语言在非典型情况下的习得对于改进诊断和治疗的目的以及为了提供支持或反对语言障碍来源的现有理论的跨语言证据都是非常重要的。第26届斯拉夫语言学正式方法（FASL）会议，将于2017年5月19日至21日在伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校举行，汇集了从理论语言学，习得和处理角度研究斯拉夫语言的研究人员和初级学者。会议将讨论斯拉夫语言结构的核心问题。特别会议将审查斯拉夫语言的特性，例如其丰富的屈折模式和灵活的词序，如何影响这些语言的处理和习得;对斯拉夫语的哪些研究可以告诉我们语法分析器和心理语法之间的关系;以及斯拉夫语言的发展如何在双语和语言障碍的情况下进行。会议将邀请五位在斯拉夫语句法，斯拉夫语语音学，斯拉夫语处理以及单语，双语和非典型背景下斯拉夫语习得方面具有专业知识的杰出研究人员进行演讲。会议鼓励广泛参与：所有五位受邀演讲者都是女性，会议为研究生和博士后学者演讲者提供旅行奖励。会议论文选编将编入会议记录册出版。

In order to fully understand the nature of human language, it is imperative for linguists to study languages from different language groups and language families. Slavic languages possess a number of interesting properties not shared by the more commonly studied western languages such as English. For example, Slavic languages are characterized by very rich systems of both nominal and verbal morphology, as well as by relatively free word order, with a close relationship between word order permutations and information structure. Until recently, most research on Slavic languages has been from a theoretical linguistic perspective, but recent years have seen a rise in studies on the acquisition and processing of Slavic languages, reflecting a growing trend in linguistic research towards the integration of theoretical and experimental approaches. Ultimately, a full understanding of language requires an understanding of both grammar and processing, and of the relationship between the two, as well as of how both grammar and processing develop in children (monolingual as well as bilingual, typically as well as atypically developing). Theoretically informed studies of the acquisition and processing of Slavic languages advance our understanding of how the human mind works and how learning proceeds. Additionally, investigations into the development of Slavic languages in the context of bilingualism or in the context of language impairment have practical implications for such fields as literacy development, the preservation of heritage languages, and the identification and treatment of language disorders. Most research on language disorders has been done with English and other western languages; research into the acquisition of Slavic languages in atypical circumstances is very important both for the purposes of improved diagnostics and treatment, and in order to provide cross-linguistic evidence for or against existing theories of the sources of language impairment.The 26th Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) conference, to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 19-21, 2017, brings together established researchers and junior scholars who work on Slavic languages from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, acquisition and processing. The conference will address core questions on the structure of Slavic languages. The special session will examine how such properties of Slavic languages as their rich inflectional paradigms and their flexible word order affect the processing and acquisition of these languages; what research on Slavic can tell us about the relationship between the parser and the mental grammar; and how the development of Slavic languages proceeds in the context of bilingualism and in the context of language disorders. The conference will feature five invited talks by prominent researchers with expertise in Slavic syntax, Slavic phonology, the processing of Slavic, and the acquisition of Slavic in monolingual, bilingual and atypical contexts. The conference encourages broad participation: all five invited speakers are women, and the conference provides travel awards to graduate student and post-doctoral scholar presenters. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a proceedings volume.