30.101, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 30.101, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:53:56
From: Nicole Gotzner [gotzner at leibniz-zas.de]
Subject: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Gradable Adjectives: Integrating Perspectives from Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics and Modeling

 
Full Title: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Gradable Adjectives: Integrating Perspectives from Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics and Modeling 
Short Title: XPRAG-ADJ19 

Date: 23-May-2019 - 24-May-2019
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Nicole Gotzner
Meeting Email: gotzner at leibniz-zas.de
Web Site: http://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/39789.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on ''The semantics and pragmatics of gradable adjectives: Integrating
perspectives from linguistic theory, psycholinguistics and modeling''

Location: University of Cologne
Dates: 23 - 24 May 2019
Conference website: http://idsl1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/39789.html

Organizing committee:

Nicole Gotzner
Stephanie Solt
Anton Benz
Barbara Tomaszewicz
Petra Schumacher

Local organizers:

Barbara Tomaszewicz
Petra Schumacher

Invited speakers:

Michael Franke
Louise McNally
Kristen Syrett
Steven Verheyen

Scope and goals of the workshop:

Gradable adjectives give rise to a variety of fascinating semantic and
pragmatic effects and this research area is a showcase for the integration of
formal work with psycholinguistic experimentation (for an overview see for
example Castroviejo, McNally & Sassoon, 2018). The study of adjectival
semantics includes aspects of vagueness, scale structure, degree semantics,
comparison classes, dimensionality and evaluativity, among others.
Distinctions between different types of adjectives and degree modification
have been found to be acquired early in language development (Syrett, 2006;
Barner & Snedeker, 2008; Tribushinina & Gillis, 2012). Our understanding of
adjectival semantics has also been advanced by psycholinguistic experiments
with adults, for example addressing the questions how relative and absolute
adjectives are processed (Rips & Turnbull, 1980; Frazier, Stolterfoht &
Clifton, 2008; Aparicio, Xiang & Kennedy, 2018), how adults determine the
standard of comparison for different adjectives classes (Toledo & Sassoon,
2011; Solt & Gotzner, 2012; McNabb, 2012; Solt, 2016; Liao & Meskin, 2017;
Tomaszewicz & Schumacher, 2018) and how comparatives are processed (Tucker,
Tomaszewiecz & Wellwood, 2018).

More recently, experimental research has investigated a variety of pragmatic
aspects such as imprecision (Leffel, Xiang & Kennedy, 2016), scalar
implicatures (van Tiel et al., 2016; Gotzner, Solt & Benz, 2018; Leffel,
Cremers, Gotzner & Romoli, forthcoming) and manner implicatures like negative
strengthening (Ruytenbeek, Verheyen & Spector, 2017; Gotzner, Solt & Benz,
2018; Tessler & Franke, 2018). The area of vagueness has also been
particularly fruitful for computational modeling that integrates insights of
semantic and pragmatic theories (Lassiter & Goodman 2013, 2015, 2017;
Lassiter, 2015; Qing & Franke, 2014; Tessler & Franke, 2018).


Call for Papers:

Deadline for submission: 28 February 2019
EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xpragadj19

Call for abstracts:

At our workshop, we especially welcome contributions that integrate
perspectives from linguistic theory with psycholinguistics and/or modeling. We
invite contributions that build on various sources of data (formal work,
experiments with children or adults, corpora, modeling). Topics of special
interest to the workshop include the following:

Degree semantics and gradability
Measurement theory and scale structure
Comparison classes
Vagueness
Granularity and Imprecision
Evaluativity
Different kinds of implicature
Polarity
Antonyms
Color adjectives
Predicates of personal taste

Abstracts must not exceed two pages in PDF format, including examples and
references, with 1 inch margins on all sides and 12 point font size. Please
make your submission via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xpragadj19 by
28 February 2019.

For any questions, please contact gotzner at leibniz-zas.de or
barbara.tomaszewicz at gmail.com




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