32.415, Calls: General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.415, Calls:  General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:34:14
From: Kathleen Currie Hall [kathleen.currie.hall at gmail.com]
Subject: General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Entropy 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Aug-2021 

Dear Colleagues,
Information theory is a highly generic and powerful mathematical framework for
analyzing communication systems. In recent years, there has been renewed
interest in using this framework to understand linguistic structures. This is
in part because language is a communication system that enables effective
communication, subject to cognitive, physical, and social constraints, on how
we encode, transmit, receive, decode, and store linguistic content.
Information theory provides ways not only to formalize these constraints, but
also ways to study how they affect the structure of the resulting
communication systems. Information theory thus provides a bridge between
linguistic function and linguistic form.

In this Special Issue, we invite contributions applying information theory to
explain why and how particular linguistic phenomena arise at all levels of
linguistic analysis, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics, as well as cross-cutting areas such as
sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, acquisition, and language
processing.
We hope this collection of papers will serve to create a theoretical common
ground both within linguistics, and between linguistics and other fields that
use information-theoretic principles as explanatory tools.

Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall
Dr. Uriel Cohen Priva
Dr. Richard Futrell
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information:
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and
logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the
submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers
will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue
website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications
are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words)
can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings
papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind
peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for
submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.
Entropy is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal
published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript.
The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access
journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted
and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to
publication or during author revisions.

Keywords:
- information theory
- linguistic structure
- linguistic explanation
- phonetics
- phonology
- morphology
- syntax
- semantics
- pragmatics
- historical linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- language processing
- language acquisition

Published Papers:
This special issue is now open for submission




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