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I'd be very grateful if you could circulate the following message through your favourite national research networks

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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

http://www.networds-esf.eu/index.php?page=final-conference

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Original (unpublished) extended abstracts for either poster or oral presentation should be submitted anonymously by using the following EasyChair link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=networds2015.

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.