33.1084, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Netherlands

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Subject: 33.1084, Calls: General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics/Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:28:36
From: Jan Winkowski [j.l.winkowski at uu.nl]
Subject: Processing Meets Semantics

 
Full Title: Processing Meets Semantics 
Short Title: PROMS 

Date: 01-Sep-2022 - 03-Sep-2022
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Jan Winkowski
Meeting Email: j.l.winkowski at uu.nl
Web Site: https://psicom.sites.uu.nl/proms/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2022 

Meeting Description:

The contribution of the workshop is to address the issue of how semantics can
be combined with real-time processing models. The general goal is to foster an
interaction between psycholinguists and cognitive modelers who study
processing, on one hand, and semanticists, on the other hand.

We see several possible points in which the interaction would be fruitful for
advances in both fields. One example in which the current active research in
processing can benefit from the interaction with semantics is a study of
dependencies, i.e., elements that require for their interpretation and/or form
that one recalls some previous linguistic element. The research into
processing of dependencies precisified models of memory structures in language
but such models are dominantly based on the investigation of syntactic
dependencies. Semantics, especially formal semantics, also commonly operates
with dependencies, for example, dependencies due to anaphora or
presupposition. Enriching processing research with the non-lexical semantic
knowledge should bring novel data on which memory models can be tested and can
provide new perspectives for our understanding of properties of dependencies.

>From the perspective of semantics, the need of interaction with processing
research is visible, for example, in the studies on presupposition. As has
been argued, presupposition projection is sensitive to the order of
presentation and shows left-to-right asymmetry, strongly suggesting that the
projection is affected by processing limitations, and close connection of the
theory of presupposition projection with theories of processing should be
desirable. But more generally, one would like to see how basic facts about
processing, for example, the fact that we interpret incrementally and
predictively, are compatible with semantic theories and could be correctly
dealt with by semantic models.

The workshop should be a good opportunity to discuss such questions and
ideally will result in increased collaboration between semantics and
processing research.

Invited Speakers:
Adrian Brasoveanu  (UCSC)
Hannah Rohde  (University of Edinburgh)
Patrick Sturt  (University of Edinburgh)
Shravan Vasishth  (Potsdam University)
Noortje Venhuizen  (Saarland University)


Call for Papers:

The PROMS workshop will be on location in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on
September 1-3 2022.

Instructions:
Abstracts should be 1 page of text (maximum font size 11pt, minimum 2 inch
margins) with up to 1 additional page for figures, tables, references etc. The
deadline for submission is May 15th, 23:59CET. 

Abstracts should be submitted through easychair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proms2022

Notification of acceptance is expected by June 15th.

For enquiries, please contact: j.l.winkowski at uu.nl.
Website: https://psicom.sites.uu.nl/proms/

Organizing Committee
Jakub Dotlačil
Rick Nouwen
Tijn Schmitz
Jan Winkowski




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