NetWordS FInal Conference: submission deadline postponed

  • 28 Nov 2014 09:12
    Message # 3159254
    [Posted on behalf of Vito Pirrelli]

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                           Word Knowledge and Word Usage: 
         Representations and Processes in the Mental Lexicon

                             Final NetWordS Conference

                               March 30th-April 1st 2015, 
                      Scuola Normale Superiore PIsa, Italy


     Submission deadline POSTPONED TO December 8th, 2014

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    Chair: Vito Pirrelli, ILC-CNR Pisa

    Invited Speakers:

    - Wolfgang Dressler, University of Vienna
    - Marta Kutas, University of California, San Diego
    - Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London
    - Michael Zock, LIF-CNRS, University of Marseille

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    We invite contributions focusing on the following two main topic areas (and their possible interconnections): 

    usage-based approaches to bootstrapping word form and structure (morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic issues) including but not limited to

    incremental acquisition of lexical categories
    emergence of morphological structure
    modelling lexical memories
    anticipatory prediction-based mechanisms of word recognition
    word production
    frequency-based models of lexical productivity
    word encoding
    models of lexical architecture
    family-based effects in word processing
    word reading and writing

    usage-based approaches to word meanings (lexical semantics and pragmatics in morphologically simple and complex words) including but not limited to

    distributional semantics
    interpretation of compounds
    concept composition and coercion
    conceptualisation of perception and action
    time and space in the lexicon
    metonymy and metaphor
    lexico-semantic relations (polysemy, synonymy, antonymy etc.)
    lexical, context-based and encyclopaedic knowledge
    perceptual grounding and embodied cognition in the lexicon
    semantic association and categorisation


    Submissions
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    Original (unpublished) extended abstracts for either poster or oral presentation should be submitted anonymously by using the following EasyChair link:


    Submissions should be sent in pdf format not later than 1 December 2014, and should contain 2 pages max of content (including figures and tables) and up to two more pages of references. All accepted submissions (whether presented as posters or orally) will be published on-line on the NetWordS web site.

    A selection of peer-reviewed paper-length versions of accepted submissions will be published as 2016 special volumes of Lingue e Linguaggio and Italian Journal of Linguistics.
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