28.3532, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories/USA

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Subject: 28.3532, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories/USA

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:51:25
From: Brian Joseph [joseph.1 at osu.edu]
Subject: Workshop on the Emergence of Universals

 
Full Title: Workshop on the Emergence of Universals 
Short Title: WEU1/MLK2018 

Date: 18-Feb-2018 - 19-Feb-2018
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA 
Contact Person: Brian Joseph
Meeting Email: joseph.1 at osu.edu
Web Site: https://u.osu.edu/mlk2018emergenceofuniversals/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

One of the central questions in linguistics concerns the nature of the
commonalities that languages share, as well as the source of those
commonalities. The dominant paradigm in the study of universals has for a long
time been based on the concept of a Universal Grammar: an innate cognitive
module containing both substantive and formal prescriptions for the
construction of all and any human language. 

In recent years, however, another strand of research has developed that
entertains the idea that universals, or universal tendencies, may be traceable
to factors external to linguistic competence narrowly defined. Such factors
include the ways in which all languages are transferred and mis-transferred
across generations and speakers, the way humans create and populate conceptual
categories of all kinds, the constraints on sequential auditory processing,
the integration of multiple sources of sensory information, and the ordering
of categories to optimize computation of form/meaning correspondences, among
others. These forces may act in the short term, shaping the structure of
individual utterances, over longer periods of time in the accumulation of
incremental changes to how languages are represented and processed, and/or in
the evolution of human language from pre-linguistic communication.
 
This workshop addresses these issues.

There will be several invited speakers: 

Juliette Blevins, CUNY Graduate Center 
Morten Christiansen, Cornell University
 Jeff Mielke, North Carolina State University 
Rebecca Morley, The Ohio State University 
Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina 

and there is room on the program for a number of 20-minute papers (each with
an additional ten minutes for discussion).


Call for Papers:

Thus, we invite submissions on the topic of language universals across all
time scales and all domains of linguistics. Papers should specifically
investigate the hypothesis that such universals may not be directly specified
in human DNA, but might emerge multiple times across different languages due
to the common forces that shape those languages.  Please send in abstracts of
no more than one page in length, with an additional page for data or
references, via EasyChair, by no later than 11:59PM, 31 October 2017; the
submission Web page for the Workshop (known as “WEU1”) is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=weu1.

For further information, consult the Workshop website:  

https://u.osu.edu/mlk2018emergenceofuniversals/ .

We look forward to welcoming you at the Workshop!

Workshop organizers:

Peter Culicover
Brian Joseph 
Becca Morley




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