29.4144, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 29.4144, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Philosophy of Lang, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:40:24
From: Christoph Hesse [hesse at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: The Meaning of Numerals: Cognitive, Experimental, and Semantic Perspectives

 
Full Title: The Meaning of Numerals: Cognitive, Experimental, and Semantic Perspectives 

Date: 27-Mar-2019 - 28-Mar-2019
Location: ZAS, Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Christoph Hesse
Meeting Email: hesse at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: http://meaningofnumerals.christophhesse.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The workshop ''The meaning of numerals: cognitive, experimental, and semantic
perspectives'' will take place in Berlin at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine
Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) March 27-28, 2019.

The meaning of numerals is a much researched topic in experimental pragmatics
(e.g. Breheny 2008; Cummins, Sauerland, Solt 2012), cognitive science (e.g.
Dehaene 2011), and theoretical semantics and pragmatics (e.g. Horn 1989;
Krifka 1999; Fox & Hackl 2006; Kennedy 2015; Rothstein 2017). This workshop
primarily targets contributions that enhance our understanding of numerals by
combining insights and methods from several of these research fields. In
particular, the imprecise use of numerical expressions (10km away) and vague
expectations raised by modified numerals (more than 100 people came) call for
such combined approaches. The topic also fits well with the more recent
interest in probabilistic models that try to account for vague expectation
raised by numerical expressions (e.g. Kao, Wu, Bergen, Goodman 2014). Topics
of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following issues:

- Vagueness, roundness, and the approximate number system
- Pragmatic and semantic explanations of number interpretations
- Acquisition of number sense and numerical meaning
- Bayesian and neural models of numerical meanings
- Meaning of numerals in compositional semantics
- Comparatives, approximators, and other linguistic modifiers of numerical
expressions
- Typology of number systems and their modifiers


Call for Papers:

We invite talks on the meaning of numerals from cognitive, experimental, and
semantic perspectives.

Submissions:

Anonymous 2-page abstracts (including references). Stylesheets for Word,
Latex, and Pages can be downloaded from the website.

Visit the website for full submission instructions.




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