25.4772, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing/USA

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Subject: 25.4772, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Lang Acquisition, Neuroling, Psycholing/USA

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:01:24
From: Elsi Kaiser [elsi.kaiser at gmail.com]
Subject: CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

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Full Title: CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 
Short Title: CUNY 2015 

Date: 19-Mar-2015 - 21-Mar-2015
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA 
Contact Person: Elsi Kaiser
Meeting Email: cuny2015.usc at gmail.com
Web Site: http://dornsife.usc.edu/conferences/cuny2015/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Dec-2014 

Meeting Description:

The 28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will be held March 19-21, 2015, at the University of Southern California.

The conference website is http://dornsife.usc.edu/conferences/cuny2015/

Invited Speakers:

Jennifer Arnold, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ann Bradlow, Northwestern
Susanne Gahl, Berkeley
Florian Jaeger, Rochester
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg
Roger Levy, UC San Diego

Information About the Special Session:

The topic of this year's special session is “Exploring the (un)expected: The role of informativity in language production and comprehension.” This special session takes as its starting point the notion of informativity, broadly construed. Not all parts of an utterance are equally informative. Some parts may be low in informativity because they are highly predictable or refer to already-mentioned information. Other parts may be more informative because they are unexpected or introduce new entities. Speakers have to make choices (largely unconsciously) about how to structure their utterances -- e.g., what word order and referring expressions to use. Comprehenders are faced with the task of extracting the intended structure and meaning from a signal with fluctuating levels of informativity. A growing body of research suggests that informativity has intriguing effects on many levels (phonological, lexical, syntactic, discourse) on both comprehension and production, leading us to ask how these effects can be captured by theories of sentence processing, whether they can be unified, and what they tell us about effects of (or lack thereof) communicative pressures on language processing and grammar.  

We are very grateful for funding from the National Science Foundation for the Special Session.

2nd Call for Papers:

Deadline extended to Monday December 8, 2014.

We welcome abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical, experimental, and/or computational research on any aspect of human sentence processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, and will be considered both for the general conference sessions and for a special session on ''The role of informativity in language production and comprehension.”

Accepted presentations will form a program made up of three days of spoken papers presented in plenary sessions plus three poster sessions, one on each day of the conference. 

Abstract submission deadline extended: Monday, December 8, 2014, 11.59pm UTC-12. If it is still the deadline date anywhere in the world, the submission can still be considered.

Notifications concerning acceptance or rejection will be made in mid-to-late January 2015.

Abstract Formatting Guidelines:

Abstracts should be submitted as a one-sided, single-spaced page (8.5''x11''- not A4), 1-inch margins all around, and in Arial 11 point font. Format must be PDF. The content can be whatever combination of text, figures, tables, charts, and graphics enables you to communicate your ideas effectively, but all content must conform to these specifications and be clearly legible.

Abstracts can be submitted electronically via the conference website.

The CUNY 2015 Organizing Committee
(Elsi Kaiser, Toby Mintz, Roumyana Pancheva and Jason Zevin)
cuny2015.usc at gmail.com

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