Udvozlet, Pleh, InfoPsyling (fwd)

Csaba Pleh Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences 202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305 T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 15:44:14 GMT From: INFO-PSYLING moderator Kerry Kilborn <psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk> To: distribute-psyling(a)psy.gla.ac.uk Subject: InfoPsyling Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 96 18:01:58 +100 Resent-From: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU 1. Symposium: Emergentist Approaches to Language From: Brian MacWhinney <brian(a)edu.cmu.andrew.cyrus> Subject: announcement ***** PLEASE POST THIS NOTICE TO THE RELEVANT BULLETIN BOARDS ***** 28th Annual Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition-- Initial Announcement Topic: Emergentist Approaches to Language Dates: May 28-June 1, 1997 Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Emergentist accounts have been formulated for a wide variety of linguistic phenomena, ranging from segmental inventories, stress patterns, phonotactic constraints, morphophonological alternations, lexical structures, pidginization, second language learning, historical change, on-line phrase attachment, and rhetorical structures. Formalisms that have been used to analyze the emergent nature of these forms include connectionist networks, dynamic systems theory, neuronal competition models, classifier systems, production-system architectures, Bayesian models, Optimality Theory, principles-and-parameters theory, corpora studies, and hermeneutic analysis. It is remarkable that approaches as apparently divergent as functionalist linguistics and principles-and-parameters theory seem to nonetheless share some common ground in terms of a mutual interest in emergentist accounts of both learning and processing. The specific aim of this symposium is to advance our understanding of these pivotal issues by bringing together researchers from these various perspectives to share their findings, ideas, aspirations, and concerns. In particular, the symposium is designed to: 1. draw attention to the notion of "emergence" as a theme underlying some of the most exciting new work in linguistics and psycholinguistics, 2. explore more fully the ways in which emergentist views provide truly new answers to old questions, as opposed to repackagings of old answers, 3. consider ways in which isolated emergentist accounts can be linked into a larger emergentist conceptual framework, and 4. examine ways in which an emergentist framework may serve to overcome or neutralize certain unresolved issues remaining from earlier periods in the development of linguistic and psycholinguistic theory. Invited Speakers: Richard Aslin, Jenny Saffran, and Elissa Newport - University of Rochester Elizabeth Bates - University of California, San Diego Jeffrey Elman - University of California, San Diego Gary Dell and Prahlad Gupta - University of Illinois Adele Goldberg - University of Illinois Maryellen MacDonald and Mark Seidenberg - University of Southern California Brian MacWhinney - CMU Jay McClelland - CMU David Plaut - CMU Linda Smith - Indiana University Catherine Snow - Harvard University Joseph Stemberger - University of Minnesota The symposium will begin at 9:00 on Thursday May 28, 1997 and will conclude on Sunday June 1, 1997. Depending on interest, there may be one or two sessions devoted to additional shorter papers. People from outside Pittsburgh who are interested in attending should send email to kelley.sacco(a)cmu.edu for additional information. --Brian MacWhinney Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 268-3793 brian.macwhinney(a)cmu.edu ------- End of forwarded message -------