29.1251, Calls: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Germany

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Subject: 29.1251, Calls:  Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Psycholing/Germany

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:21:45
From: Daniele Panizza [daniele.panizza at gmail.com]
Subject: Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing

 
Full Title: Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing 
Short Title: AMBIGO 

Date: 04-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Daniele Panizza
Meeting Email: daniele.panizza at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/583801.html 

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

Call Deadline: 07-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

Ambiguity, defined as the property enjoyed by words and utterances that bear
multiple interpretations, is pervasive in natural languages. The way in which
human cognitive and linguistic systems deal with ambiguity has been an object
of study for centuries by philosophers, linguists, psychologists and cognitive
scientists.

The aim of the current workshop is to discuss this topic at three different
levels:

Theory: how theoretical accounts speak of the issue of how to relate different
meanings of words/utterances to multiple underlying representations of that
word/utterance.

Development: how language learners cope with ambiguity, how they are able to
acquire the meaning and the use of words and utterances that are represented
by more than one structure or representation, or that perform several
linguistic functions

Processing: how ambiguous words and utterances are processed by the cognitive
system and in the brain, and how ambiguity resolution takes place in real time

We therefore invite the submission of abstracts that investigate ambiguity
phenomena in natural language, with specific focus on – but not limited to –
lexical ambiguity, structural/syntactic ambiguity, semantic/pragmatic
ambiguity, temporary ambiguity and resolution.

Keynote Speakers:

Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Stephen Crain, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Rosalind Thornton, Macquarie Univesity, Sydney, Australia
Lyn Tieu, Western Sydney University, Australia
Jacopo Romoli, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Clemens Mayr, ZAS Berlin, Germany
Jing Lin, Leiden University, Netherlands


Call for Papers:

We encourage submission of theoretical or empirical works investigating – but
not limited to – the following topics: lexical ambiguity (homonymy, polysemy),
structural/syntactic ambiguity (scope ambiguity, phrase attachment ambiguity),
semantic/pragmatic ambiguity (interpretation and scope of logical operators,
implicatures, speech acts), temporary ambiguity (garden paths, reference
resolution).

Abstracts must be anonymous and be written in 12pt font. The main text should
be at most 2 pages (US Letter or A4) in length with an optional third page for
pictures, graphs, examples and references. We welcome oral presentation (30
mins plus 15 mins for discussion) and poster presentations.

The deadline for applications is due to the 21 of April. Notification of
acceptance will be due to the 7 of May.

To submit an abstract, use the following Easy Chair page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ambigo2018 .




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