Call for Papers for CCILE 2022
Dates: May 25-27, 2022
Venue: Online
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Language Emergence (CCILE2022)!
Invited Speakers:
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University/MIT)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)
Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh)
Ann Senghas (Barnard College)
Workshop Description:
Every human community discovered on the planet so far uses language. No other natural communication system of equivalent representational or expressive power exists in the entire animal kingdom. This workshop asks, “How does a human language get its start from scratch in the absence of a conventionalized linguistic model and gain its expressive power?”, and "What is the role of the individual’s mind, and what is the role of having a sustained language community in the process of language emergence and evolution?” Languages can be analyzed as formal systems and as functional systems. These different lenses sometimes yield divergent answers to the central questions above, and disciplinary self-segregation sometimes limits the discoveries that might derive from increased cross-talk between perspectives. Accordingly, this workshop aims to bring together researchers from cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and related disciplines with the aim of integrating findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning the contributions of cognitive and cultural factors to the initial stages of language emergence among modern humans. We welcome abstracts on any of (but not limited to) the following topics: language emergence and change, protolanguage, homesign, emerging sign languages, artificial language, iterated learning, language and cognition, evolution of semiotic systems (biological, cultural, or simulated), and gesture in primates (human and non-human).
Abstract guidelines:
We invite abstracts for oral and/or poster presentations of one-page length (500 words max.), an additional page for supplementary material, figures and references is allowed. Anonymized abstracts must be submitted in PDF (Times 12pt, single spaced, 2.5cm or 1-inch margins on all sides) to ccile2022@gmail.com.
Submission deadline: February 1, 2022
Notification for acceptance: by March 20, 20202
Official Languages: English and International Sign.
Organizers:
Rabia Ergin (Boğaziçi University)
Matthew Hall (Temple University)
Limor Raviv (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
Contact: ccile2022@gmail.com
You may also contact rabia.ergin@boun.edu.tr
