25.3596, Calls: Lexicography, Lang Acquisition, General Ling, Computational Ling, Psycholing/Italy

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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:22:40
From: Vito Pirrelli [vito.pirrelli at ilc.cnr.it]
Subject: Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon

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Full Title: Word Knowledge and Word Usage: Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon 
Short Title: NetWordS 2015 

Date: 30-Mar-2015 - 01-Apr-2015
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact Person: Vito Pirrelli
Meeting Email: networds2015 at easychair.org
Web Site: http://www.networds-esf.eu/index.php?page=final-conference 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Lexicography; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2014 

Meeting Description:

People are known to understand, memorise and parse words in a context-sensitive, opportunistic way, by caching their most habitual and productive processing patterns into routinized behavioural schemes, similarly to what we observe for sequences of coordinated motor acts. Speakers, however, do not only take advantage of token-based information such as frequency of individual, holistically stored words, or episodic memories of word usage, but they are also able to organise stored word forms through abstract paradigmatic structures (or word families) whose overall size and distribution are important determinants of lexical categorisation, inference and productivity. Contrary to traditional wisdom, epitomised by the so-called ''calculator metaphor'', lexical organisation is not necessarily functional to descriptive economy and minimisation of storage, but appears to be influenced by more dynamic, communication-oriented functions such as memorisation, prediction-based recognition and production.

Lending support to this view, usage-based approaches to word processing have recently offered novel explanatory frameworks that capitalise on stable correlation patterns between lexical representations on the one hand and process-based operations that make representations functional to communicative exchanges on the other hand. By focusing on the battery of low-level cognitive functions supporting verbal communication (ranging from serial encoding, rehearsal and storage to access, recall, integration, co-activation and selection) and by exploring the psycholinguistic correlates and neuroanatomical substrates of higher-level communicative functions (recognition, analysis and production), these approaches promote a new view of language architecture as an emergent property of the interaction between language-specific input conditions and (possibly domain-specific) cognitive predispositions.

Call for Papers:

The conference intends to address the above-mentioned issues from a cross-disciplinary perspective by encouraging contributions focusing on the following two main topic areas (and their possible interconnections): 

1. Usage-based approaches to bootstrapping word form and structure (morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic issues) including but not limited to:

- Incremental acquisition of lexical categories
- Emergence of morphological structure
- Modelling lexical memories
- Anticipatory prediction-based mechanisms of word recognition
- Word production
- Frequency-based models of lexical productivity
- Word encoding
- Models of lexical architecture
- Family-based effects in word processing
- Word reading and writing

2. Usage-based approaches to word meanings (lexical semantics and pragmatics in morphologically simple and complex words) including but not limited to:

- Distributional semantics
- Interpretation of compounds
- Concept composition and coercion
- Conceptualisation of perception and action
- Time and space in the lexicon
- Metonymy and metaphor
- Lexico-semantic relations (polysemy, synonymy, antonymy etc.)
- Lexical, context-based and encyclopaedic knowledge
- Perceptual grounding and embodied cognition in the lexicon
- Semantic association and categorisation.

Original (unpublished) extended abstracts for either poster or oral presentation on the above-mentioned topics should be submitted anonymously by using the following EasyChair link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=networds2015.

Submissions should be sent in .pdf format according to the conference style, and should contain 2 pages max of content (including figures and tables) and up to two more pages of references.

All accepted submissions (whether presented as posters or orally) will be published on-line on the NetWordS website.

A selection of peer-reviewed paper-length versions of accepted submissions will be published as 2016 special volumes of Lingue e Linguaggio and Italian Journal of Linguistics.

Important Deadlines:

Abstract submission: December 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2015
Camera-ready submission: February 15, 2015
Conference registration: March 1, 2015







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