30.1472, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/USA

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Subject: 30.1472, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/USA

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Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:43:00
From: Muye Zhang [muye.zhang at yale.edu]
Subject: Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting Development, Variation, and Change

 
Full Title: Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting Development, Variation, and Change 

Date: 10-Oct-2019 - 12-Oct-2019
Location: New Haven, CT, USA 
Contact Person: Muye (Andy) Zhang
Meeting Email: meaninginflux at gmail.com
Web Site: https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jun-2019 

Meeting Description:

The connections between meanings and the pronunciations through which they are
linguistically conveyed vary systematically within a speech community and
change systematically over time.  Many synchronic and diachronic patterns that
instantiate such dynamics have been well described, yet the cognitive and
communicative forces that support them—including their discourse-based,
linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive components—remain poorly understood. 
The focus of this conference is to bring together researchers working on one
or more of these facets with the aim of connecting development, variation, and
change.


Call for Papers:

Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change
Yale University, New Haven, CT
October 10 -12, 2019
Workshop website:
https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019

We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics,
information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed
languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive
development.  We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress results,
covering not only connections between existing analyses and
cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological challenges
that arise. 

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

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

We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven by
foundational questions on meaning -pronunciation development, variation, and
change, as well as the struggle of messy data.  We are seeking to bring
together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology
representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as
exemplified by our invited speakers. 

Confirmed invited speakers:

Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology 
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics 
Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics
Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology 

Deadline: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on Monday June 10, 2019
Notification: Monday July 15, 2019
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 and address any questions to
meaninginflux at gmail.com.

Confirmed scientific committee:

Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics
António Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics
Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics
Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics
María Mercedes Piñango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology
Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science
Paula Rubio-Fernández, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German
Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics
Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics
Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics

Executive committee:
Caitlyn Antal, Martín Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, María Mercedes Piñango, Jason
Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye (Andy) Zhang




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