28.2824, Calls: Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 28.2824, Calls: Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Neuroling, Pragmatics, Semantics/USA

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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:33:15
From: Sara Sanchez-Alonso [sara.sanchez.alonso at yale.edu]
Subject: Meaning in flux: connecting development, variation, and change

Full Title: Meaning in flux: connecting development, variation, and change 

Date: 12-Oct-2017 - 14-Oct-2017
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 
Contact Person: Sara Sanchez-Alonso
Meeting Email: sara.sanchez.alonso at yale.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 03-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The connections between meanings and the way in which they are linguistically
packaged and conveyed vary systematically within a speech community and change
systematically over time.  Although many synchronic and diachronic patterns
that instantiate such varying connections have been well described,
understanding the cognitive and communicative motivations of such systematic
variability and change would provide crucial bridging between and integration
of the discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components that
are expected to support such meaning dynamics. This is the focus of the
workshop.

We are planning this very much as a workshop with discussion driven by 
foundational questions on meaning development, variation and change and the
struggle of messy data. As exemplified by our invited speakers, we are seeking
to bring together all kinds of perspectives on meaning representation,
including model-theoretic, discourse representation, conceptual
semantics/pragmatics, and all experimental and empirical approaches.

Invited speakers:
Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State University
Lyn Frazier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Ann Senghas, Barnard College
Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University

Final Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for talks and posters at the intersection of
semantics/pragmatics, information/discourse structure, language variation,
development, and change, from empirical and experimental perspectives
addressing this question. We highly encourage submissions presenting
in-progress empirical and experimental results, covering both methodological
challenges as well as connections between existing semantic or pragmatic
analyses to cognitively grounded explanatory models. 

Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following
questions:

- to what extent are trajectories of meaning dynamics construable as dynamics
that emerge from and are and guided by real-time implementation of the
architecture of language and the larger cognitive system?
- how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse
context and other communicative constraints? 
- are there causal relations between the arcs of acquisition/development and
change as they are informed by processing constraints?

Deadline: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on July 3, 2017 
Notification: July 31st, 2017
Format: 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. 

Please submit your abstracts using the form at:
http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux.

Sponsor: NSF-INSPIRE (#1248100) grant to Maria Piñango (Yale), Ashwini Deo
(OSU), Mokshay Madiman (UDel) and Todd Constable (Yale). 

Scientific committee:
Hans Boas, University of Texas at Austin
António Branco, University of Lisbon
Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University
Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State University
María Piñango, Yale University
Petra Schumacher, University of Cologne
Heike Wiese, University of Potsdam

Organizing committee:
Jun Chen, Martín Fuchs, María Piñango, Sara Sánchez-Alonso, Muye Zhang.

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