Meaning in Flux 2019
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Description:
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.
Confirmed invited speakers:
Susan Carey, Harvard U. Psychology
Herbert Clark, Stanford U. Psychology
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern U. Linguistics
Veneeta Dayal, Yale U. Linguistics
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@gmail.com.
Program:
|You can find further details and abstracts in the program booklet, attached at the bottom of this page|
Thursday October 10th, 2019 |
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14:30 – 15:30 |
Registration & Snacks (LC Lobby) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Welcome |
Remarks by Alan Gerber, Dean of Social Sciences Yale University & María Mercedes Piñango Yale University |
16:00 – 17:00 |
Plenary Talk I (LC 102) |
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Meaning in the Moment |
Herbert Clark Stanford University |
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17:00 – 18:40 |
Session 1 (LC 102) |
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Moderator |
Veneeta Dayal Yale University |
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17:00 – 17:20 |
Real-time methods for diachronic semantics: the PROG-to-IMPF shift in Spanish |
Martín Fuchs & María Mercedes Piñango Yale University |
17:20 – 17:40 |
Interpreting semantic judgment tests on subjectivity and intersubjectivity |
Sayaka Abe Middlebury College |
17:40 – 18:00 |
Two cross-linguistic studies on the acquisition of definiteness and Theory of Mind |
Paula Rubio-Fernández, MIT Vishakha Shukla, Shroff Hospital Delhi Madeleine Long , University of Oslo Fatoumata Jallow, The Gambia College Marta Bialecka-Pikul, Jagiellonian University Julian Jara-Ettinger, Yale University |
18:00 – 18:40 |
Discussion |
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18:40 – 20:30 |
Reception (LC Foyer) |
Friday October 11th, 2019 |
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8:30 - 9:20 |
Breakfast (LC Foyer) |
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9:20 – 10:20 |
Plenary Talk II (LC 102) |
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Genericity and (In)Definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective |
Veneeta Dayal Yale University |
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10:20 – 11:30 |
Session 2 (LC 102) |
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Moderator |
Josh Phillips Yale University |
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10:20 – 10:40 |
Pragmatic and semantic influences on nominal morphosyntax in Kwéyòl Donmnik: Insights from information status, specificity, and deixis |
Joy Peltier University of Michigan |
10:40- 11:00 |
Exemplar-Driven Categorial Grammar as a Framework for Studying the Dynamics of Semantic Change |
Emanuel Quadros Yale University |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Discussion |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Lunch (LC Foyer) |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Plenary Talk III (LC 101) |
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When meaning changes reflect conceptual change; the possibility (and actuality) of episodes of conceptual construction over time |
Susan Carey Harvard University |
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13:00 – 13:20 | Coffee | |
13:20 - 15:00 |
Session 3 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
María Mercedes Piñango Yale University |
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13:20 – 13:40 |
Social meaning in sales interaction at a multilingual urban street market |
Britta Shulte & Irem Duman University of Potsdam |
13:40 – 14:00 |
Acquiring sociophonetic variation in the globalized world: style-shifting and metalinguistic awareness of Polish-English-speaking adolescents in the UK |
Kinga Kozminska & Hua Zhu Birbeck College, University of London |
14:00 – 14:20 | Comprehension of underspecified meaning and the impact of individuals’ autistic traits |
Yao-Ying Lai, Michiru Makuuchi National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Japan María Mercedes Piñango, Yale University & Hiromu Sakai, Waseda University |
14:20 – 15:00 |
Discussion |
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15:00 – 15:20 |
Coffee & Desserts |
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15:20 – 16:30 |
Session 4 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
Paula Rubio-Fernandez MIT |
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15:20 – 15:40 |
Toddlers both hear and recognize polysemous word meanings: corpus and eye tracking evidence |
Sammy Floyd, Princeton University Libby Barak, Rutgers University Adele Goldberg & Casey Lew-Williams, Princeton University |
15:40 – 16:00 |
The effect of bilingualism and bi-dialectalism on irony comprehension |
Kyriakos Antoniou & George Spanoudis University of Cyprus |
16:00 – 16:30 |
Discussion |
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16:30 – 16:50 |
Coffee & Snacks |
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16:50 – 18:00 |
Session 5 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
Susan Carey Harvard University |
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16:50 – 17:10 |
The development of metonymic comprehension as the growth of context-construal ability |
Muye Zhang, María Mercedes Piñango & Jisu Sheen Yale University |
17:10 – 17:30 |
Partial Meanings |
Eve Clark Stanford University |
17:30 – 18:00 |
Discussion |
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18:30 – 20:30 |
Dinner (Luce Hall) |
Saturday October 12th, 2019 |
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8:30 – 9:00 |
Breakfast (LC Foyer) |
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary Talk IV (LC 101) The listener’s dilemma: interpreting speaker meaning from posody under variable encoding |
Jennifer Cole Northwestern University |
10:00 – 11:40 |
Session 6 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
Jason Shaw Yale University |
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10:00 – 10:20 |
The relationship between syntactic distributions and prosodic position |
Nick Lester, University of Zurich & Argyro Katsika, University of California, Santa Barbara |
10:20 – 10:40 |
Prosodic de-emphasis under non-identity: In support of a pragmatic account |
Jeffrey Geiger & Ming Xiang University of Chicago |
10:40 – 11:00 | Meaning-intonation mapping in flux: Navigating variability through talker-sensitive adaptation |
Andrés Buxo-Lugo & Chigusa Kurumada University of Rochester |
11:00 – 11:40 |
Discussion |
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11:40 – 12:00 |
Coffee & Snacks |
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12:00 – 13:10 |
Session 7 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
Sarah Babinski Yale University |
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12:00 – 12:20 |
Accommodation to observed vs. expected behavior in an alien language |
Lacey Wade & Gareth Roberts University of Pennsylvania |
12:20 – 12:40 |
Behavior of homophones does not support irregular phonological change |
Chelsea Sanker Yale University |
12:40 – 13:10 |
Discussion |
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13:10 – 13:30 |
Lunch (LC Foyer) |
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13:30 – 14:40 |
Session 8 (LC 101) |
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Moderator |
Jennifer Cole Northwestern University |
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13:30 – 13:50 |
Negation in flux: a negative concord stage in child English |
Kathryn Davidson Harvard University |
13:50 – 14:10 |
Does a communicative partner’s behavior affect children’ s informativeness? |
Myrto Grigoroglou & Patricia Genea University of Toronto |
14:10 – 14:40 |
Discussion |
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14:40 – 15:00 |
Coffee & Dessert |
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15:00 – 16:00 |
Panel |
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16:00 – 17:00 | Conclusion | |
17:00 – 21:00 |
Party (Pierson College Fellow’s Lounge) |