26.20, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Psycholing, Pragmatics, Semantics, Lang Acquisition/Spain

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Subject: 26.20, Calls: Cognitive Sci, Psycholing, Pragmatics, Semantics, Lang Acquisition/Spain

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Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:04:32
From: Galit W. Sassoon [galitadar at gmail.com]
Subject: Gradability, Scale Structure and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives

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Full Title: Gradability, Scale Structure and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives 
Short Title: expgrad2015 

Date: 28-May-2015 - 29-May-2015
Location: Madrid, Spain 
Contact Person: Galit Weidman Sassoon
Meeting Email: expgrad2015 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/gradexp2015 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

The workshop “Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives”, will take place in Madrid, at the Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the Spanish National Research Council, on May 28-29, 2015.

As its title states, the workshop is concerned with the semantics of gradability, scale structure and vagueness from an experimental perspective.

Invited Speakers:

Rick Nouwen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)
Petra Schumacher (University of Cologne)
Stephanie Solt (ZAS, Berlin)

Registration is free, but please let us know if you will be attending by filling in the form you will find in the workshop’s web page: https://sites.google.com/site/gradexp2015/registration

Organizers: Elena Castroviejo (ILLA-CSIC), Louise McNally (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Galit W. Sassoon (Bar-Ilan University)

For additional details see the workshop website.

2nd Call for Papers:

We are pleased to invite abstracts for submission to the workshop ''Gradability, Scale Structure, and Vagueness: Experimental Perspectives.''

We invite papers that challenge or confirm current formal analyses of these phenomena in view of experimentally collected data; that discuss how semantic and pragmatic theory can benefit from experimental methodologies; and that aim for an explicit and detailed account of the use, mental representation, online processing, neural correlates or acquisition of expressions of gradability, scalarity, and vagueness. Papers may address -- but are not limited to -- the following questions: 

- The ontological status of degrees and their role in the analysis of vagueness, gradability and scalarity phenomena, if any
- Comparison constructions across categories and languages
- Scale-based classifications of gradable predicates such as the absolute vs. relative distinction, the nature of the standards for the applicability of gradable expressions, and the ways in which standards are determined
- Evidence for specifications of implicit parameters, such as comparison class, judge, scalar dimension(s), or standards, in the derivation of vague and gradable expressions, and their role in processing
- The usage of vague language in the context of borderline cases (e.g., things which are 'neither tall nor not tall'), apparent contradictions (such as 'tall and short'), and the Sorites paradox
- The connections between vagueness and other types of context dependence such as ambiguity and polysemy, imprecision or approximation, anaphora and presupposition, and multidimensionality and gradability
- The consequences of vagueness for the architecture of grammar, given the diverse aspects of grammar into which vagueness infiltrates

Eight talks will be selected among the submissions. They will be allotted 35 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. One person can submit at most one single-authored abstract and an additional co-authored one. Abstracts must be anonymous, at most 2 pages long including references and examples, 12 pt Times New Roman font, and in .pdf format. Please add 5 keywords.Abstracts will be submitted electronically via Easychair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=expgrad2015. 

Important Dates:

Abstract submission: January 15, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2015
Workshop dates: May 28-29, 2015

In conjunction with this workshop, the organizers are preparing a volume with the same title for the new Springer series 'Language, Cognition and Mind'. Papers based on the accepted talks will be considered for this publication.

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