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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:23:46
From: Edward Gibson [egibson at mit.edu]
Subject: 30th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference

 
30th CUNY Sentence Processing Conference 
Short Title: CUNY 

Date: 30-Mar-2017 - 01-Apr-2017 
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact: Edward Gibson 
Contact Email: egibson at mit.edu 
Meeting URL: http://cuny2017.mit.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will take place March 30
– April 1, 2017 at MIT, Cambridge MA. The theme of the Special Session is
Language processing and language evolution.

 

Call for Abstracts:

Special Session: Language Processing and Language Evolution

Why are human languages the way they are? The special session at CUNY 2017 at
MIT will explore the hypothesis that how language evolves is deeply
intertwined with how humans use language to comprehend and communicate
meaning.

Typically, languages are viewed as arbitrary static objects that humans must
learn and use. In this session we will explore the idea of language as a
dynamically evolving product of human interaction, shaped by information
processing constraints and by the social context in which it is used. 
Following this reasoning, general properties of human information processing
may explain variation in language, including differences among languages and
differences between grammatical constructions within languages, emergence of
languages (e.g., homesign), and their development over time.  This approach
can, in turn, allow for a deeper understanding of basic language processing
mechanisms because it richly characterizes the linguistic systems being
learned and used.

The time is now ripe to ask fundamental questions at the intersection of
language processing and language evolution. The field of psycholinguistics has
arrived at fairly robust generalizations about sources of processing
difficulty for humans, including memory constraints and the effects of prior
linguistic experience.  In linguistic typology, the availability of large
public datasets such as the World Atlas of Linguistic Structures has enabled
faster, reproducible testing of hypotheses, as well as synergistic
communication with other fields.  In addition, phylogenetic and statistical
methods have provided valuable means of validating generalizations beyond
particular language families and geographic areas.  In computational
linguistics, new large annotated datasets have recently become available,
which can be used to rigorously evaluate scientific hypotheses.  The special
session will include talks from these diverse areas and related research
programs that advance the field of language research toward treating languages
as evolving entities.

We call for papers in sentence production and comprehension. One-page
abstracts are due December 12, 2016.





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