26.5289, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 26.5289, Calls: Cog Sci, Lang Acq, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:14:53
From: Julia Kröger [childlang2016 at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on 'The Role of Pragmatic Factors in Child Language Processing'

 
Full Title: Workshop on 'The Role of Pragmatic Factors in Child Language Processing' 

Date: 19-May-2016 - 20-May-2016
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Julia Kröger
Meeting Email: childlang2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.xprag.de/?page_id=2967 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

Recent years have seen a growing interest in how children make use of available contextual cues for enriching their utterance interpretation. For some comprehension processes (e.g., the incremental referential interpretation of color adjectives), even very young toddlers around 36 months of age seem to make rapid use of both linguistic and extra-­linguistic information (Fernald, Thorpe & Marchman, 2010), and subtle language-­specific prosodic preferences are present as early as the first half year of infants’ lives (Höhle, Bijeljac-Babic, Herold, Weissenborn & Nazzi, 2009). Children can moreover recruit both language and visual cues for word learning (Smith & Yu, 2008) and pragmatic aspects of the learning process have been successfully modeled probabilistically (Frank, Goodman & Tenenbaum, 2009; Frank & Goodman, 2014). Yet, there is controversy about the kinds of cues that 4-5‐year-­olds can rapidly use during language comprehension (Trueswell, Sekerina, Hill & Logrip, 1999;
  Zhang & Knoeferle, 2012). Five-­year-­olds need additional time to effectively use some (prosodic) cues during comprehension (Ito, Jincho, Minai, Yamane & Mazuka, 2012), and they are not yet able to rapidly draw complex inferences such as those necessary for computing scalar implicature (Huang & Snedeker, 2009) although there is some modulation by other factors of their ability to draw pragmatic inferences (Yoon, Wu & Frank, 2015). The picture is further complicated by cross-­linguistic variation in the role of pragmatic inferences for language processing. Accommodating this sort of variation in a principle-­based manner is non-­trivial yet an important endeavor in developing accounts of situated language processing across the lifespan. This workshop brings together scientists investigating the role of pragmatic factors in child language processing, with a focus on children’s emerging language and pragmatic abilities and on cross-linguistic variation. Keynote talks by the in
 vited speakers will set the stage for discussion about how to best characterize the principles underlying pragmatic processes at developmental stages.

Call for Papers: 

We welcome submissions of abstracts for oral or poster presentations on topics related to pragmatic factors in child language processing. Successful submissions will address theoretically important issues using methods such as computational modeling, behavioral experimentation, and electrophysiology.

Abstracts should not exceed more than 400 words on one A4 page, in Times New Roman, Font Size 12, PDF Format.




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