32.2866, Calls: General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.2866, Calls: General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:37:45
From: Kathleen Currie Hall [kathleen.hall at ubc.ca]
Subject: General Linguistics / Entropy (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Entropy 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2021 

Call for Papers:

Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Approaches to Explaining Linguistic
Structure

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.

*Note that the deadline has been extended to 15 December 2021. 

Complete information is available at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/linguistic_structure
 
Dr. Kathleen Currie Hall
Dr. Uriel Cohen Priva
Dr. Richard Futrell
Guest Editors




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