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

Linsly-Chittenden Hall (63 High St.)

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

Deadline: 11:59 PM of your local time zone on ~~Monday~~ ~~June 10th~~, 2019: Extended: Monday June 17th

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.

Confirmed scientific committee:

Claire Bowern, Yale U. Linguistics

António Branco, U. of Lisbon Informatics

Kathryn Davidson, Harvard U. Linguistics

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

Jennie Pyers, Wellesley C. 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

Organizing committee:

Catalina Mourgues*, Emanuel Souza de Quadros, Garima Chopra*, Jason Shaw*, Jisu Sheen*, Joshua Phillips, Kate Stanton , María Mercedes Piñango*, Martín Fuchs*, Muye (Andy) Zhang*, Nanyan Wu*, Randi Martinez, and Sarah Babinski*

(*-Executive Committee)

Program:

|You can find further details and abstracts in the program booklet, attached at the bottom of this page|

Thursday October 10th, 2019

14:30 – 15:30

Registration & Snacks (LC Lobby)

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)

Meaning in the Moment

Herbert Clark

Stanford University

17:00 – 18:40

Session 1 (LC 102)

Moderator

Veneeta Dayal

Yale University

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

18:40 – 20:30

Reception (LC Foyer)

Friday October 11th, 2019

8:30 - 9:20

Breakfast (LC Foyer)

9:20 – 10:20

Plenary Talk II (LC 102)

Genericity and (In)Definiteness: A Cross-linguistic Perspective

Veneeta Dayal

Yale University

10:20 – 11:30

Session 2 (LC 102)

Moderator

Josh Phillips

Yale University

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

11:30 – 12:00

Lunch (LC Foyer)

12:00 – 13:00

Plenary Talk III (LC 101)

When meaning changes reflect conceptual change; the possibility (and actuality) of episodes of conceptual construction over time

Susan Carey

Harvard University

13:00 – 13:20

Coffee

13:20 - 15:00

Session 3 (LC 101)

Moderator

María Mercedes Piñango

Yale University

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

15:00 – 15:20

Coffee & Desserts

15:20 – 16:30

Session 4 (LC 101)

Moderator

Paula Rubio-Fernandez

MIT

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

16:30 – 16:50

Coffee & Snacks

16:50 – 18:00

Session 5 (LC 101)

Moderator

Susan Carey

Harvard University

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

18:30 – 20:30

Dinner (Luce Hall)

Saturday October 12th, 2019

8:30 – 9:00

Breakfast (LC Foyer)

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)

Moderator

Jason Shaw

Yale University

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

11:40 – 12:00

Coffee & Snacks

12:00 – 13:10

Session 7 (LC 101)

Moderator

Sarah Babinski

Yale University

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

13:10 – 13:30

Lunch (LC Foyer)

13:30 – 14:40

Session 8 (LC 101)

Moderator

Jennifer Cole

Northwestern University

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

14:40 – 15:00

Coffee & Dessert

15:00 – 16:00

Panel

16:00 – 17:00

Conclusion

17:00 – 21:00

Party (Pierson College Fellow’s Lounge)

A livestream of the conference will be posted on the Yale Linguistics department’s facebook page, Thursday-Saturday: https://www.facebook.com/421858921209247/

Transportation & accommodation:

Transportation

1. New York Kennedy Airport (JFK)

a. Public transit option 1: approx. 4 hours and $20

i. From any terminal, take the AirTrain to Jamaica Station ($5): 10-20 min

ii. Manhattan-bound E train subway to 53/5th ($2.75): 1 hour

iii. Walk to Grand Central Terminal: 10 min

iv. MetroNorth train to New Haven Union Station ($17.50): 2 hours

v. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

b. Public transit option 2: approx. 3 hours and $36

i. From any terminal, take the NYC Airporter bus to Grand Central Terminal ($18): 0.5-1.5 hours

ii. MetroNorth train to New Haven Union Station ($17.50): 2 hours

iii. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

c. Private car service: 1.5-3 hours and $50-100

d. Car-sharing (Uber/Lyft): 1.5-2 hours and $150-200

2. Newark Liberty Airport (EWR)

a. Public transit option 1: 3.5 hours and $35

i. From any terminal, Airtrain to Newark Airport station (free with train ticket), NJ Transit from Newark Airport station (EWR) to New York Penn Station (NYP): 1 hour and $14

ii. Walk/subway to Grand Central Terminal: 30 min and free/$2.75

OR from NYP, see Item 7 below

iii. MetroNorth train to New Haven Union Station ($17.50): 2 hours

iv. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

b. Public transit option 2: 2.5 hours and $37+

i. From any terminal, Airtrain to Newark Airport station (free with train ticket), Amtrak from Newark Airport station (EWR) to New Haven Union Station (NHV): 2.5 hours and $37+

ii. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

3. LaGuardia Airport (LGA)

a. Public transit option 1: 2.5 hours and $20

i. From any terminal, take the M60 express bus to Harlem 125th Street Station: 30 min and $2.75

ii. MetroNorth train to New Haven Union Station ($17.50): 2 hours

iii. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

b. Public transit option 2: 2.5-3 hours and $35

i. From any terminal, take the take the NYC Airporter bus to Grand Central Terminal ($18): 0.5-1.5 hours

ii. MetroNorth train to New Haven Union Station ($17.50): 2 hours

iii. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

c. Car-sharing/private car: 1.5-3 hours and $50-200

4. Hartford Bradley Airport (BDL)

a. Car-sharing/private car: 1-2 hours: $50-100

5. Boston Logan Airport (BOS)

a. Public transit: 3 hours and $10+

i. From any terminal, take the Silver line to South Station: 15 min and free from the airport/$2.25 to the airport

ii. From South Station:

1. take Megabus/other bus to New Haven Union Station: 2.5 hours and $10+

2. take Amtrak to New Haven Union Station: 2.5 hours and $42+

iii. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

6. New Haven Tweed Airport (HVN)

a. Car-sharing/taxi: 10-15 minutes and $10-15

7. New York Penn Station (NYP)

a. Amtrak to New Haven Union Station: 1.5 hours and $30+

b. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

8. New York Grand Central Station (GCT)

a. MetroNorth: 2 hours and $17.50

b. Car-share/taxi/bus/walk to Yale/downtown (see Item 10 below)

9. I-95

a. Exit 46/7

10. New Haven Union Station to Yale/downtown

a. Car-share: Uber/Lyft usually <$10 for anywhere in Yale/downtown

b. Taxi: usually <$15 for anywhere in Yale/downtown

c. City bus: free GREEN bus every 20 minutes to New Haven Green (center of downtown)

d. Yale shuttle: free RED shuttle every 15-30 min to Yale campus (weekday daytime) or free BLUE shuttle every 30 min to Yale campus (weeknights and weekends)

e. Walk: 1 mile (20-30 min) to Yale/downtown