28.1954, Calls: Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/France

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Subject: 28.1954, Calls: Historical Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/France

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:59:23
From: Sean Roberts [sean.roberts at bristol.ac.uk]
Subject: Triggers of Language Change in the Language Sciences

 
Full Title: Triggers of Language Change in the Language Sciences 
Short Title: XLanS 

Date: 11-Oct-2017 - 14-Oct-2017
Location: Lyon, France 
Contact Person: Sean Roberts
Meeting Email: xlansconf at gmail.com
Web Site: https://xlans.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

The conference is part of the ''X in the Language Sciences'' (XLanS) series
which aims to bring a wide range of researchers together to focus on a
particular topic in language that interests them.  The goal is to identify the
crucial issues and connect them with cutting-edge techniques in order to
develop better explanations of linguistic phenomena (see details of the first
XLanS conference here).

This year's topic is 'triggers of change':  What causes a sound system or
lexicon or grammatical system to change?  How can we explain rapid changes
followed by periods of stability?  Can we predict the direction and rate of
change according to external influences?

We are pleased to be able to offer scholarships to cover travel for students
from the developing world and reduced rates for lower-income attendees.  See
the Registration Details page for details.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions for talks, short talks and posters.

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June

Languages change through time across levels of description, from phonetic
shifts to innovations in the vocabulary and the grammar, transformations of
semantic associations and pragmatic norms. Change has always been present in
the thinking of traditional linguistics: on the one hand, some transitions are
deemed to be more “natural” (vowels occurring adjacent to nasal consonants
becoming nasal themselves or OV/VO languages developing post/prepositions,
respectively) or “economical” (long frequent words become shorter) than
others. On the other hand, change might be induced by contact with other
communities of speakers that possess different language structures (tonal
systems spread through areas). In most of these cases, however, it becomes
hard to distinguish assessment from theory or mechanistic explanations - some
changes are considered more likely to take place simply because they have been
ascertained more frequently.

The aim of this conference is to critically discuss what we know in the 21st
century about triggers of change in languages by revisiting old notions from
linguistics (a new concepts from elsewhere), gathering together specialists
from a wide spectra of disciplines and focusing on what the mechanisms
ultimately are.

Some of the issues we try to tackle are:

What is different between language and other cultural systems’ transmission?
Given the fact that language happens on an utterance-by-utterance basis, how
is that they display a more or less discrete behaviour? What is the demography
of the initiators of change: women, men, young, old, wealthy, poor? What is
the role of the environment on both the individuals and the populations in
relation to language change? What can we learn from experiments in the lab
that attempt to mimic the conditions of change? Can we distinguish adaptive
from neutral change? Are models from biology, physics and economy useful to
capture the dynamics of languages? What is the role of modality in change? Are
non-human animal communication systems’ as dynamic as languages?

For more submission information, please visit
https://xlans.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2




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