34.654, Calls: From Icon to Abstraction: How iconicity shapes the lexicon across modalities

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Subject: 34.654, Calls: From Icon to Abstraction: How iconicity shapes the lexicon across modalities

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From: Annika Schiefner [a.schiefner at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: From Icon to Abstraction: How iconicity shapes the lexicon across modalities


Full Title: From Icon to Abstraction: How iconicity shapes the lexicon
across modalities

Date: 20-Jul-2023 - 21-Jul-2023
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Annika Schiefner
Meeting Email: a.schiefner at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/engli
shlanguage/events/2023/from-icon-to-abstraction-how-iconicity-shapes-t
he-lexicon.aspx

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

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2023

Meeting Description:

We would like to draw your attending to the workshop From icon to
abstraction: How iconicity shapes the lexicon across modalities.
Speakers of the two day-programme include (sign) linguists,
psychologists, cognitive scientists, and architects working on signed
and spoken languages. On Day 1 we will discuss iconicity and how it
shapes the lexicon. On Day 2 we will talk about how iconicity and
regularities on the lexicon assist learnability.

Location: Birmingham, UK
Date: July 20-21, 2023
Call for papers for poster presentations: Submit a 300-word abstract
to share your work on the topic.
Submission deadline: March 20th, 2023.

This event is funded by the AHRC and DGS.

We look forward to seeing you there.

on behalf of Gerardo Ortega, Pamela Perniss and the whole team

Call for Papers:

We would like to invite abstract submissions for poster presentations
on Day 1 of the workshop. The 300-word abstracts (excluding
references) should present work related to the topics of the workshop:
iconicity, colexification, vocabulary emergence, vocabulary learning,
sign languages, gesture, speech, vocalizations, emerging (sign
languages), language evolution and emergence. Submit your abstract by
20 March 2023 to IconicWorkshop at contact.bham.ac.uk. There is a limited
number of spaces for poster presentations so selection criteria will
apply.

Schedule

Day 1: Iconicity and how it shapes the lexicon
Mahesh Srinivasan (University of California, Berkeley)
Christopher Laing (Haworth Tompkins Architect)
Annika Schiefner (University of Cologne & University of Birmingham)

Poster Session

Day 2: Iconicity, lexicon, and learnability
Jenny Lu (University of California, Berkeley)
Marieke Schouwstra (University of Amsterdam)
Nia Lazarus (University of Cologne & University of Birmingham)

Discussion: Marcus Perlman (University of Birmingham)



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