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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 14:43:58
From: Luca Nobile [lux.nobile at gmail.com]
Subject: Sound Symbolism and Crossmodal Correspondences

 
Full Title: Sound Symbolism and Crossmodal Correspondences 
Short Title: SSCC 

Date: 04-May-2017 - 05-May-2017
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Luca Nobile
Meeting Email: luca.nobile at u-bourgogne.fr
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/spciparis4/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The SSCC international and interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the
relationship between the general phenomenon of crossmodal correspondences and
its particular realization in the linguistic field in the form of sound
symbolism.

The term crossmodal correspondences refers to any kind of homology between
different perceptual modalities, which can be observed experimentally in the
general population. For instance, the fact that, among the majority of
participants, the visual opposition between small and large correlates with
the auditory opposition between acute and grave, and not the contrary.

The term sound symbolism indicates the subset of crossmodal correspondences
concerning speech sounds or articulations and their relationship with the
meanings they carry within a language. For instance, the fact that most
languages having the morphological opposition between diminutive and
augmentative represent it by an opposition between acute phonemes and grave
phonemes, and not the contrary.

This conference will address both the point of intersection between the two
fields and their complementarity, offering to bridge the gap between
linguists, psychologists, philosophers and literary studies, cognitive science
and natural language processing specialists.

Keynote speakers are:

Damián Blasi
Ophélia Deroy
Vanja Ković
Søren Wichmann


Call for Papers:

The SSCC international conference aims to create an interdisciplinary
encounter between researchers working in the fields of sound symbolism and
crossmodal correspondences. The disciplines involved are linguistics,
cognitive science, philosophy and literary studies. 

The concept of ''sound symbolism'' intends to characterize any type of
motivated link, whether direct or indirect, based on similarity or contiguity,
between the phono-articulatory signified of a linguistic unit and its
signified, its meaning or its referent. It is a form of linguistic iconicity
operating at a phonological level. Experimental research has largely
documented the spontaneous tendency of speakers to assign intrinsic
''proto-semantic'' values to speech sounds. It has demonstrated, for instance,
that the phono-articulatory contrast between [grave] phonemes like /u/ or /b/
and [acute] phonemes like /i/ or /p/ is regularly associated with visual
contrasts between {large} and {small}, {rounded} and {sharp}, {dark} and
{bright}, among others. More recently, neurophysiological research has started
to identify the areas of the cortex and the time slots in the cortical
activity that are specifically associated with processing sound symbolism. On
the other hand, descriptive research has been producing more and more in-depth
and systematic analysis of the main phenomena of sound symbolism existing in
languages: onomatopoeias, ideophones, phonesthemes and submorphemes,
phonosemantic structures in morphology and more recently the general tendency
of the lexicon to organize along the line of iconicity, as exemplified by a
number of studies over big corpora. These results can have interesting
applications in several fields, for instance in marketing, in language
acquisition and language learning studies, in literary analysis and in
theoretical speculations on the origin of language.

Research on crossmodal correspondences can be considered as a generalization
of the problem of sound symbolism. Instead of focusing on the link between
speech sounds and meanings, the crossmodalist approach focuses on the
relationship between any two sensorimotor experiences: hearing and touch,
vision and touch, vision and olfaction, etc. For instance, it has recently
been demonstrated that odors of smoke and chocolate tend to be associated to
more grave sounds than odors of citrus and fruit, while bitter and salty
tastes are perceived as lower pitched than sweet and sour. Some of these
correspondences are considered universal (e. g. between sound intensity and
brightness) while others are considered culturally variable (for instance
between physical height {up:down} and acoustical height {acute:grave}).
However, they are a fundamental property of our cognitive system, which can
play an essential role in understanding multisensorial integration and be
considered as a precursor of the ability of abstraction. 

We invite paper proposals on sound symbolism and/or crossmodal correspondences
which may address the following topics (not exhaustive):

- Theories, methods and epistemological approaches 
- Experimental research 
- Descriptive research on languages or texts
- Computerized corpora and NLP 
- Acquisition and learning of languages 
- Marketing, branding, copywriting
- Semantic web and artificial intelligence

Conference languages are French and English.

Proposals (a title and an abstract of 2000 characters including spaces and
bibliography) should be sent before 10 February 2017 to the two organizers: 

philippe.monneret at paris-sorbonne.fr
luca.nobile at u-bourgogne.fr

Registration fee is 100 € (before 10 Avril) or 150 € (after 10 Avril).
Attendance is free for the general public.

(see the online version for bibliography)




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