28.2382, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 28.2382, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:52:35
From: Daphne Kerremans [daphne.kerremans at anglistik.uni-nuenchen.de]
Subject: The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation. Data, Methods, Models

 
The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation. Data, Methods, Models 

Date: 28-Jun-2017 - 30-Jun-2017 
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact: Daphné Kerremans 
Contact Email: daphne.kerremans at anglistik.uni-muenchen.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/abteilungen/sprachwissenschaft/research/research_projects1/dfg-projekt/ws-lexinn/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The fate of lexical innovations is not predetermined. Some nonce-formations,
coined at the spur of the moment, remain ephemeral and are never used again.
Others manage to spread and gain a certain degree of currency, but never make
it into the common vocabulary shared by most speakers and disappear from
active use after a brief period of time. Yet others diffuse rapidly and become
permanent additions to the lexicon. The dynamics of these diffusion processes,
and the factors influencing the extent to which new words become
conventionalized have not been investigated systematically so far.

The workshop ‘The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, Methods, Models’ plans
to provide a forum for research that investigates how lexical innovations
diffuse in speech communities, domains of usage, media and text types and
tries to determine which factors play a role in this process. The workshop
focuses on challenges involved in data acquisition, on methodological and
technical aspects, and on theoretical and computational models of lexical
innovation and diffusion processes.

Confirmed Speakers:

- Richard Blythe
- Christophe Gérard
- Jack Grieve
- Will Hamilton
- Suzanne Kemmer
- Terttu Nevalainen
- Jelena Prokić
- Tanja Säily
 

Please see
http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/abteilungen/sprachwissenschaft/research/r
esearch_projects1/dfg-projekt/ws-lexinn/index.html





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