Conference: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 50: Austin, TX: April 2020

第50届罗曼语语言学研讨会（LSRL）将于2020年4月23日至25日在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行。LSRL吸引了一群国际学者，是一个学术讨论和传播研究成果的重要场所，研究领域包括句法、语义学、语用学、音韵学、语音学、历史语言学/方言学、第二语言、遗产和双语研究，因为它们适用于罗曼语。LSRL50将展示研究采用不同的方法和不同类型的实证观察应用于各种罗曼语的评估，测试和语言模型的修订。会议的目标包括促进开放和共享工具和数据的文化，架起语言学与STEM学科的桥梁，为不同方向的学者提供一个相互交流的论坛，并积极吸引来自语言和语言学以及STEM领域的研究生和本科生参加会议活动。会议包括54份口头报告和30份精选的海报报告。五位主讲人将讨论多个分支学科和使用不同数据收集方法的语言：实地考察、实验室研究、社会语言学访谈、档案记录和网络抓取。此外，还将有一个“自带数据”的研讨会，帮助参与者可视化和探索多语言语言数据。来自美国国家科学基金会的资金将为主讲人和数据科学研讨会召集人提供部分支持。资金还将为最多20名本科生提供学生参与支持费用，其中许多人来自为双语和多元文化学生提供服务的学术单位，这种兴趣反映了德克萨斯州乃至更广泛的美国的社会构成。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) will be held at the University of Texas at Austin from April 23-25, 2020. The LSRL attracts an international body of scholars, and is a prominent venue for scholarly discussion and dissemination of research findings in the subfields of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics/dialectology, and second language, heritage and bilingual studies as they apply to the Romance languages. LSRL50 will showcase research that employs diverse methods and different types of empirical observations applied to various Romance languages in the evaluation, testing, and revision of linguistic models. The objectives of the conference include promoting a culture of open and shared tools and data, bridging linguistics with STEM disciplines, providing a forum in which scholars of different orientations communicate with one another, and actively involving graduate and undergraduate students from languages and linguistics and from STEM fields in conference activities. The conference consists of 54 refereed oral presentations and 30 selected poster presentations. Five keynote speakers will address multiple sub-disciplines and languages using diverse methods of data collection: fieldwork, laboratory studies, sociolinguistic interviews, archival recordings, and web scraping. In addition, there will be a 'bring your own data' workshop to help participants visualize and explore multilingual language data. Funding from the National Science Foundation will provide partial support for the keynote speakers and the data science workshop convener. Funding will also provide student participation support costs for up to 20 undergraduate students, many of whom come from academic units that serve students of bilingualism and multiculturalism, an interest that reflects the social makeup of Texas and of the U.S. more generally.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.