The labex Empirical foundations of Linguistics (EFL) is organizing its 3rd summer school on the idyllic Porquerolles island (France)
Experimental Grammar 2024 expgram2024.sciencesconf.org
https://expgram2024.sciencesconf.org/Experimental Grammar 2024 https://expgram2024.sciencesconf.org/ expgram2024.sciencesconf.org https://expgram2024.sciencesconf.org/ https://expgram2024.sciencesconf.org/
Registration closes on April 15th
Student rate : 250 euros (housing and meals included)
The selected courses for this school will present new methodologies for experimental studies, quantitative studies using large corpora, as well as new approaches in morphology, syntax, semantics and language acquisition. The availability of large corpora, some of them annotated, for a large variety of languages, has been beneficial for corpus-based grammar. Most linguistic theories agree on the necessity of testing their hypotheses with experimental methods (controlled acceptability judgements, reading times, eye movement, EEG…) on comprehension and production tasks. It is also important to compare human processing and the performances achieved by large language models (LLM).
Given the small size of the school, participants will be accommodated in the same place, enabling them to have intensive discussions with the instructors and other participants throughout the week, to prepare collective projects, etc. In addition to courses, ExpGram2024 will give PhD students the opportunity to present their work during a special session, which will allow them to receive valuable feedback on their project.
Outside class hours, participants will take advantage of the idyllic landscapes for swimming, snorkeling or diving in the shallow turquoise waters, cycling along island’s 60km of beautiful trails and paths, or simply walking through the forest to take in the unparalleled scents of maritime pines, lavenders, eucalyptus, etc.
At the end of each day, participants will celebrate life and linguistics over a glass or two, watching the sunset at the beach.
