Dear All,

 

This year, the online Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science is dedicated to the topic of Linguistic and cognitive foundations of meaning. The detailed programme can now be viewed further below or on our website. 

 

As we received so many great submissions, we decided to add one extra day to the conference which is now scheduled between May 18-21. Registration is possible on our website, even without a submission. 

 

Tuesday, May 18

2-4pm: Invited Session 1

Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh): From semantic primitives to conceptual structure: Experimental investigations into the role of meaning in grammar

Emmanuel Chemla (CNRS, LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure): TBA

5-7pm: Submitted Session 1: REFERENTS

 

Wednesday, May 19

2-4pm: Invited Session 2

Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft): A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar

Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison): How words structure our concepts

5-7pm: Submitted Session 2: PROPERTIES

 

Thursday, May 20

2-4pm: Invited Session 3

Susan Carey (Harvard University): Representation of Logical Relations in Infancy and in Preschool Children’s Language—Continuity or Discontinuity?

Jean-Rémy Hochmann (CNRS. Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, Université Lyon 1): Foundations of meaning in infancy: the case of abstract relations

5-7pm: Submitted Session 3: EVENTS

 

Friday, May 21

2-4pm: Invited Session 4

Asifa Majid (University of York): Culture shapes the expression of meaning in language

Marina Bedny (Johns Hopkins University): TBA

5-7pm: Invited Session 5

Paul Pietroski (Rutgers University): The Extension Dogma

Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California): Bootstrapping quality, process, and event

All times GMT/UTC.

 

On behalf of the organizers,

 

Rachel Dudley

Isabelle Dautriche

- Conference chairs