LINGUIST List 21.2780 Thu Jul 01 2010 Calls: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics/Germany Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Milena Kuehnast, Discourse-Coherence Mechanisms and Pronominal Anaphora Message 1: Discourse-Coherence Mechanisms and Pronominal Anaphora Date: 29-Jun-2010 From: Milena Kuehnast <kuehnastzas.gwz-berlin.de> Subject: Discourse-Coherence Mechanisms and Pronominal Anaphora E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Discourse-Coherence Mechanisms and Pronominal Anaphora Date: 23-Feb-2011 - 25-Feb-2011 Location: Göttingen, Germany Contact Person: Milena Kuehnast Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics Call Deadline: 23-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: Many of the preferences and heuristics that guide the use of pronominal expressions have been based on the linguistic properties of antecedents such as grammatical and thematic roles they fill in the sentence. Alternatively, pronominal forms and the strategies for their interpretation as discourse anaphora may be explained as contingent on the general coherence strategy of a discourse segment. In other words, the mental model of the situation and the morpho-syntactic means for its establishment influence the anaphora resolution preferences. A situation description involving a telic predicate biases the general discourse expectation towards the goal/result of the action and promotes co-reference establishment to non-subject referents. Parallelism between depicted event structures endorses as a general coherence mechanism an analogous co-reference establishment strategy - pronominal forms are resolved to antecedents occupying the same grammatical roles.The acquisition of anaphora resolution strategies requires that children consider various properties of discourse structure and major mechanisms of coherence establishment such as resemblance, contiguity in time and space and causality. In this workshop we want to explore questions concerning the influence of the situation model in terms of temporal and causal characteristics of the depicted events on the use of pronominal anaphora. Questions to be addressed in the workshop include: 1. Do children consider the structure and the temporal specifications of depicted events as cues for anaphora resolution in the same way as adult native speakers (transitivity, aspectual and temporal markers of verbal predicates)? 2. Do children exploit the parallelism of linguistic structures for reference assignment between anaphora and antecedents occupying parallel grammatical and thematic roles? 3. In which respects are the effects of the coherence establishing mechanism similar or different in the production and comprehension of pronominal anaphora? Call for Papers The workshop is part of the Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German Linguistic Society, DGfS) in Göttingen from February 23-25, 2011. Organizers: Natalia Gagarina, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin Milena Kuehnast, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin Submission of abstracts: Anonymous abstracts no longer than 300 words should be sent to Milena Kuehnast and Natalia Gagarina with the mail subject 'DGfS 2011 Abstract' Emails: kuehnast zas.gwz-berlin.de ; gagarina zas.gwz-berlin.de. The abstract should be in plain text or in PDF format, and it should be in English only. Please include the following information in the body of the email: author's name(s), affiliation, email address, title of the abstract. The normal time alotted for presentation is 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: 23 August 2010 Notification of acceptance: 13 September 2010 Provisional program: 15 December 2010 DGfS Conference: 23-25 February 2011. Göttingen, Germany Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.