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

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.

世界上的一些语言具有特殊的语言学特性，即在词序中以动词开头，例如，“读玛丽亚的书”而不是“玛丽亚读这本书”。事实上，属于不同语系的语言都是动词首字母。更好地理解类型相似但不相关的语言之间的共性和差异可以推进语言学理论。为了促进这种理解，在南岛正式语言学协会年会期间举行了关于动词开头语言的韵律和心理语言学的特别会议。特别会议汇集了研究南岛语族和其他语系动词首字母语言的研究人员，为通常不合作的学者创造了一个空间，以分享想法和观点，并发展新的合作。它还介绍了研究欠研究的动词开头的语言，目前的方法和理论在韵律和心理语言学的研究人员，以鼓励未来的工作在更大的语言池的目的。此外，会议和特别会议还将介绍来自代表性不足的社区的初级学者和学者的工作。本项目将支持在南岛正式语言学协会年会上举行的特别会议“动词开头语言的韵律和心理语言学联系”。会议定期看到大约40-60与会者（教师，博士后，研究生和本科生）来自世界各地。特别会议的目的是吸引研究动词开头语言的韵律和心理语言学的研究人员，通过为通常不合作的学者创造一个空间来分享想法和观点，以帮助推进理论工作。特别会议促进讨论动词开头语言的理解和产生以及动词开头语言的韵律的共同点。这些讨论导致的研究，反过来，通知现有的理论，句子处理和韵律，这已经发展主要是基于动词中间和动词结尾的语言。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。