35.2369, Calls: Rational Approaches in Language Science

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Subject: 35.2369, Calls: Rational Approaches in Language Science

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Date: 30-Aug-2024
From: Ivan Yuen [ivyuen at lst.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Rational Approaches in Language Science


Full Title: Rational Approaches in Language Science
Short Title: RAILS

Date: 13-Feb-2025 - 15-Feb-2025
Location: Saarland University, Germany
Contact Person: Ivan Yuen
Meeting Email: ivyuen at lst.uni-saarland.de
Web Site: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference-2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Phonetics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 16-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
13-15 February 2025, Saarbruecken, Germany

We are delighted to announce the upcoming 2nd edition of the
conference on „Rational Approaches in Language Science“ (RAILS), which
will be organized by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102
„Information Density and Linguistic Encoding“. The central theme of
this conference is (bounded) rational communication, i.e. the idea
that language users continuously strive to optimize their means of
communication to effectively convey their intended messages. Thus,
rational communication has consequences on how recipients encode and
remember information, and it also impacts language variation and
change.

RAILS will bring together researchers from various fields
investigating how information dynamics, rational communication and
memory interact with language use, variation, and change. We welcome
contributions on (1) how interlocutors process and update information
in diverse situational contexts; (2) how language use is adapted to
certain contexts and intended referents and (3) how linguistic and
conceptual information is stored and maintained in short- and
long-term memory. Ultimately, the goal of the conference is to gain
deeper insights into the complexities of language use and its dynamic
nature in different settings. We invite submissions from researchers
across the language sciences – including speech science, theoretical
linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and
neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language
development, change and evolution – who apply rational probabilistic
explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental
findings to bear on such accounts.

Keynote speakers:
Mark Dingemanse (Radboud University)
Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Rachel Ryskin (University of California, Merced)

Important dates:
Submissions open: 8 July, 2024
Submissions due: 16 September, 2024
Notification of acceptance: 4 November, 2024
Registration period: 11 November-16 December, 2024
Final abstract submission: 2 December, 2024
Conference: 13-15 February, 2025

For inquiries, please send an email to: rails2025 at lst.uni-saarland.de.
Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the
Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 Information Density and
Linguistic Encoding.

2nd Call for Papers:

The 2nd Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany, 13-15 February 2025. The
central theme of this conference is rational communication, i.e. the
idea that language users continuously strive to optimize their means
of communication to effectively convey their intended messages. RAILS
brings together research on (1) how interlocutors process and update
information in diverse situational contexts, (2) how language use is
adapted to certain contexts and intended referents, and (3) how
linguistic and conceptual information is stored and maintained in
short- and long-term memory.

We invite submissions from researchers across the language sciences –
including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical
linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational
linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution –
who apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena,
or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts.

Keynote speakers:
 Mark Dingemanse (Radboud University)
 Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine)
 Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
 Rachel Ryskin (University of California, Merced)

Submission guidelines:
Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file via
https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new, adhering
to the guidelines listed on our conference website
(https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference-2025/). We accept
submissions for posters and/or talks. Talks are slated for 20 minutes
plus 10 minutes for questions. Submission of planned work is invited
for poster presentation only. Note that, if accepted, we expect
results to be presented at the conference.

Important dates:
Submissions open: 8 July, 2024
Submissions due: 16 September, 2024
Notification of acceptance: 4 November, 2024
Registration period: 11 November-16 December, 2024
De-anonymized abstracts due in final form: 2 December, 2024
Conference: 13-15 February, 2025

Scientific Committee:
Regine Bader
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Katja Haeuser
Robin Lemke
Ivan Yuen

Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the
Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 Information Density and
Linguistic Encoding. For inquiries, please send an email to
rails2025 at lst.uni-saarland.de.



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