HSP2022 Abstract submissions open
Matt Wagers
Dear Colleagues,
We’re delighted - or, as we like to say in our local English, hella stoked - to announce that abstract submission is now open for the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. You may submit your abstracts here:
https://tinyurl.com/SubmitToHSP
Abstracts are due on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 by 11:59:59pm (Anywhere On Earth).
Additionally, we are looking to expand the pool of reviewers who contribute to HSP2022. We invite you to recommend new reviewers and we especially encourage you to self-nominate. We ask that all nominees hold the Ph.D. or equivalent.
https://tinyurl.com/NominateReviewer
The preferred deadline to nominate/volunteer is October 25, 2021. You do not have to have been invited previously. If you have been invited in the past few years, you are also welcome to self-identify as open to reviewing this year (but it is not required in order to receive an invitation to review).
The special theme of HSP2022 is Prosody, Gesture and Meaning This year we will interrogate the connection between prosody, gesture and meaning. Six world-renowned researchers will address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. How are these multimodal communication channels integrated with, or segregated from, other aspects of linguistic cognition, including syntax, compositional semantics and pragmatics? How does our ability to identify and process gestural or prosodic features develop in first- and second-language? This theme sustains the special session of CUNY2020, “The interface between linguistic computation and other cognitive systems”, with continuing support from the National Science Foundation (Awarded to UMass; PI Brian Dillon and Co-PI Adrian Staub).
We are delighted to welcome the following presenters:
Mara Breen, Mt Holyoke, Psychology and Education
Aoju Chen, Utrecht, Languages, Literature and Communication
Kathryn Davidson, Harvard, Linguistics
Jesse Harris, UCLA, Linguistics
Sotaro Kita, Warwick, Psychology
Pilar Prieto Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Translation and Language Sciences
We also welcome your contributions to the special session. And, as always, we invite abstracts related to language processing more generally. Abstracts may be submitted for posters or for 20-minute plenary presentations. Instructions for submission and the submission portal are available on the conference website: https://hsp2022.ucsc.edu.
HSP2022 will follow a hybrid model: the virtual core scientific program, organized centrally by UC Santa Cruz, will consist of invited presentations, peer-reviewed plenary presentations and poster sessions. Anyone will be able to fully participate virtually. In addition, we will hold an in-person option on the same dates in Santa Cruz (public health guidance permitting). Finally, we encourage anyone to self-organize a satellite gathering of their own. More details are available at the conference website: https://hsp2022.ucsc.edu. If you are at all considering attending the Santa Cruz in-person event, we urge you to make a (cancelable) hotel reservation now.
For more information, please contact ch...@ucsc.edu.
Sincerely,
The HSP2022 Organizing Committee
