[Histling-l] Fwd: Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019

[Claire Bowern]

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From: Muye Zhang <muye.zhang at yale.edu>
Date: Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 12:41 PM
Subject: Call for papers: Meaning in Flux 2019
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*Meaning in Flux 2019: Connecting development, variation, and change*
Yale University, New Haven, CT
October 10th -12th, 2019
Workshop website:
https://ling.yale.edu/research/labs/language-brain-lab/meaning-flux-2019

*Description*: The connections between meanings and the pronunciations
through which they are linguistically conveyed vary systematically within a
speech community and change systematically over time.  Many synchronic and
diachronic patterns that instantiate such dynamics have been well
described, yet the cognitive and communicative forces that support
them—including their discourse-based, linguistic, conceptual, and cognitive
components—remain poorly understood.  The focus of this conference is to
bring together researchers working on one or more of these facets with the
aim of connecting development, variation, and change.

We invite abstracts for talks at the intersection of semantics/pragmatics,
information/discourse structure, phonetics/phonology (of spoken and signed
languages), language variation, language change, and language and cognitive
development.  We highly encourage submissions presenting in-progress
results, covering not only connections between existing analyses and
cognitively-grounded explanatory models but also the methodological
challenges that arise.

Specifically, in this workshop we would like to address the following
questions:
(a) to what extent are trajectories of meaning-pronunciation dynamics
construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time
implementation of the architecture of language and the larger cognitive
system?
(b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by
discourse context and other communicative constraints?
(c) how are the causal relations between the arcs of
acquisition/development and change in meaning-pronunciations informed by
processing constraints?

We are planning this very much as a retreat, with discussion driven
by foundational questions on meaning -pronunciation development, variation,
and change, as well as the struggle of messy data.  We are seeking to bring
together all kinds of perspectives on meaning and phonetics/phonology
representation, as well as all experimental and empirical approaches, as
exemplified by our invited speakers.

*Confirmed invited speakers*:
Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology
Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics
Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics
Joy Hirsch, Haskins Labs/Yale U. Psychiatry and Neurobiology

*Deadline*: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on *Monday* *June 10th, 2019*
*Notification*: Monday July 15th, 2019
*Format*: Two pages, 8.5” x 11” or A4, comprising text, figures, tables,
references, etc., as needed.  Please maintain 1” margins on all sides, and
use at least size 12 font. Abstracts should be headed by the title in bold,
and should not contain any author information. Please submit your
abstracts using the form at: http://tinyurl.com/meaningflux and address any
questions to meaninginflux at gmail.com.

*Confirmed scientific committee*:
Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics
António Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics
Ashwini Deo, The Ohio State U. Linguistics
Kathryn Franich, U. of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Roberta Golinkoff, U. of Delaware Education/Psychology/Linguistics
Argyro Katsika, UC Santa Barbara Linguistics
María Mercedes Piñango, Yale U. Linguistics/Psychology
Federico Rossano, UC San Diego Cognitive Science
Paula Rubio-Fernández, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Petra Schumacher, U. of Cologne German
Jason Shaw, Yale U. Linguistics
Heike Wiese, Humboldt U. Linguistics
Alan Yu, U. of Chicago Linguistics

*Executive committee:*
Caitlyn Antal, Martín Fuchs, Catalina Mourgues, María Mercedes Piñango,
Jason Shaw, Jisu Sheen, Nanyan Wu, and Muye Zhang

*Organizing committee:*
ExCom + Sarah Babinski, Randi Martinez, Joshua Phillips, Emmanuel Souza de
Quadros, and Kate Stanton.

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