CFP: Utterance Interpretation & Cognitive Models III

[Philippe De Brabanter]

First call for
papers: Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 3
 
The third edition of the Brussels conference on Utterance
Interpretation and Cognitive Modelswill take place on February 5-7, 2010, under the auspices
of the Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek / Cercle Belge de
Linguistique. 
The first edition addressed the issue of the semantics/pragmatics
interface from a cognitive perspective and drew essentially on the work of
semanticists, pragmaticists and philosophers of language. The second broadened
the perspective by inviting the views of scholars from the related subfields of syntax, cognitive linguistics and evolutionary
linguistics. For this third edition, the focus will
be on the developmental and cognitive determinants of utterance
interpretation. On the one hand, the ontogenetic development of our ability to
interpret linguistic utterances provides invaluable insights into adult
cognition; on the other, the methods of cognitive psychology, with their
emphasis on experimental inquiry and empirical results raise crucial
epistemological questions for the progress of research in the field. The focus of this third edition is fully in keeping with
our continued ambition to reach across disciplinary boundaries and bring
together researchers who, though belonging to different schools or traditions,
all take a view of interpretation that is informed by cognitive concerns and
share the assumption that the ultimate test for any theory of utterance
interpretation is its psychological plausibility. 
 
Keynote speakers:
 
Bart
Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) 
Jean-Marie Marandin
(CNRS, Université Paris 7) 
Anna
Papafragou (University of Delaware)
Josef Perner (Universität Salzburg)
Dan
Sperber (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod)
 
Abstract submissions: 
 
In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will
feature parallel sessions with contributed papers. We welcome submissions of
abstracts for 25-minute papers that focus on the psychological or cognitive
underpinnings of utterance interpretation or, conversely, address the
implications that theories of any aspect of utterance interpretation can have
for the psychology of language and for cognitive science at large. We also
welcome papers from scholars who study utterance interpretation in connection
with language development, impaired communication, non-verbal communication and
non-human communication. Abstracts will be anonymously refereed by members of
the program committee.
 
Important dates:
 
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2009
Conference: February 5-7, 2010
 
Abstract format: 
 
- Only electronic submissions are accepted. 
- Abstracts should be submitted to the email address:
uicm3 at ulb.ac.be, with the following subject line: ''Utterance Interpretation
and Cognitive Models 3'' 
- The abstracts should be sent as an attachment to an email
message, in either MS Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Adobe Acrobat
(.pdf ) format 
- The length of the submissions is a maximum of two A4
sides, using 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins and a 12 pt font. Each abstract should
clearly indicate the title of the talk, and may include references. In the
interest of fairness these constraints will be strictly enforced.
- The abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and
include no indication of the name(s) of the author(s). Only anonymous abstracts
will be considered.
- The body of the email message should contain the
following information: The name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, title of the
paper and contact details (postal and email address).
- A maximum of one submission as author, and one as
co-author will be considered
 
For further
information, please consult: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm3/


      
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