<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change</span></b></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Yale University, New Haven, CT</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">October 10th -12th, 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Workshop website: <a href="https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019" class="">https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019</a></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Description</span></b><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">:<b class=""> </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The connections between meanings and the pronunciations through which they are linguistically conveyed vary systematically within a speech community and change systematically over time. Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support them—including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components—remain poorly understood. The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and change.</span></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">We invite abstracts</span><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive development. We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges that arise.</span></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following questions:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">(a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive system?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">(b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">(c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by processing constraints?</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by foundational questions on meaning-pronunciation development, variation, and change, as well as the struggle of messy data. We are seeking to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as exemplified by our invited speakers.</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Confirmed invited speakers</span></b><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><a name="OLE_LINK2" class=""></a><a name="OLE_LINK1" class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: black;">Deadline</span></b></a><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on <b class="">Monday</b> <b class="">June 10th, 2019</b></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Notification</span></b><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">: Monday July 15th, 2019</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Format</span></b><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">: Two pages, 8.5” x 11” or A4, comprising text, figures, tables, references, etc., as needed. Please maintain 1” margins on all sides, and use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold, and should not contain any author information.</span> <span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Please submit your abstracts using the form at: </span><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux" class="">http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span class="" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"> </span></span>and address any questions to <a href="mailto:meaninginflux@gmail.com" class="">meaninginflux@gmail.com</a>.</span></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Confirmed scientific committee</span></b><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">: </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">António Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Roberta Golinkoff,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Argyro Katsika,<span class="apple-converted-space"><b class=""> </b></span></span><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">UC Santa Barbara Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">María Mercedes Piñango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Paula Rubio-Fernández, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics</span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Executive committee:</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">Caitlyn Antal, Martín Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, María Mercedes Piñango, Jason Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye Zhang</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Organizing committee:</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px;">ExCom + Sarah Babinski, Randi Martinez, Joshua Phillips, Emmanuel Souza de Quadros, and Kate Stanton. </span></div></body></html>