Workshop announcment - Causality in language and cognition: from prelinguistic to linguistic causality in infants

[Bridget Copley]

*Causality in language and cognition: from prelinguistic to linguistic 
causality in infants*

12 Octobre 2012, 14h 

Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage Centre Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 
75017 Paris France


*Soonja Choi*

San Diego State University & University of Vienna

*Jean Mandler*

University of California, San Diego & University College London

*Roger Lécuyer*

Professeur Emérite, Institut de Psychologie, Université René Descartes, 
Paris


This workshop is organized by the project *Causality in language and 
cognition *(with the support of the *Fédération Typologie et Universaux 
Linguistiques*), which is dedicated to understanding the cross-linguistic 
expression of causality in a range of linguistic structures. Although 
causality plays a role in many facets of language - for example, in 
argument structure, aspect, and modality - it has not received a dedicated, 
coherent treatment in formal linguistics in a way that is compatible with 
work in cognition. Almost without exception, formal approaches have relied 
on counterfactual theories of causation (notably that of David Lewis), 
without further investigating how the expression of causality in language 
might have a cognitive basis, as shown by insights about force transmission 
in cognitive linguistics (e.g. Talmy, 1988, 2000; Croft, in press), as well 
as by research on language processing (Wolff, 2007; Wolff et al., 2010), 
language acquisition (e.g. Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Choi, 2009; Choi & 
Bowerman, 1991), or infant cognition (e.g. Lécuyer, 1989; Leslie, 1984, 
1994; Spelke, 1998; Spelke & Kinzler, 2007; Spelke et al., 1992; Lécuyer, 
1989; Mandler, 1998, 2008, 2012).

The project brings together linguists and psycholinguists aiming to develop 
a framework that takes all of these lines of research into account in order 
to understand how cognitively realistic concepts of causality are combined 
in language. The present workshop will focus particularly on prelinguistic 
and early linguistic notions of causality in infants.

The program, along with abstracts in French and English, is attached.

Organizers: 

Bridget Copley, SFL (bridget.copley at sfl.cnrs.fr)

Maya Hickmann, SFL (maya.hickmann at sfl.cnrs.fr)

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