[CogSci] Register for DUCOG 2021 (online May 18-21): Linguistic and cognitive foundations of meaning

Rachel Dudley rachel.elaine.dudley at gmail.com
Fri May 7 07:33:37 PDT 2021


This year, the online Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science is
dedicated to the topic of Linguistic and cognitive foundations of meaning.
The detailed programme for live sessions is below or on our website
<https://ducog.cecog.eu/programme>, along with details on the asynchronous
presentations. Registration <https://ducog.cecog.eu/attend> is open on our
website.



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): *Title TBA*

5-7pm: Submitted Session 1

REFERENTS

Claire Bergey, Benjamin C. Morris (University of Chicago) & Daniel Yurovsky
(Carnegie Mellon University): Remarking on the atypical: Implications for
language learning and modeling

Bálint Forgács (ELTE), Judit Gervain (Università Padua), Eugenio Parise
(Lancaster University), György Gergely (Central European University),
Zsuzsanna Üllei Kovács, Lívia Elek & Ildikó Király (ELTE): Is Semantic
Processing Grounded in Mentalization?

Barbu Revencu (Central European University): The Interpretation of External
Symbols at the Interface Between Vision and Communication

Ellen Lau (University of Maryland): From object files to discourse files:
neural support for a common referential index system in scene and sentence
comprehension



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

Judy Kim (Yale University) & Marina Bedny (Johns Hopkins University): Why
grass is green and not yellow: Intuitions about object colors in signed and
congenitally blind adults

Annika Tjuka (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History): Meanings
of body part terms: Cross-linguistic colexifications between body parts and
objects

Joshua Martin (Harvard University): Privativity as a window to
lexical-conceptual structure

Fang Wang, Simon Kirby & Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh): A
bias for cross-category harmony is sensitive to semantic similarity



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

Yue Ji (Beijing Institute of Technology) & Anna Papafragou (University of
Pennsylvania): Children are sensitive to the internal temporal profiles of
events

Denis Tatone (Central European University): Prelinguistic grounding of
event structure. The case of giving and taking

Alon Hafri (Johns Hopkins University), Lilia Gleitman (University of
Pennsylvania), Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University) & John Trueswell
(University of Pennsylvania): Where word and world meet: Intuitive
correspondence between visual and linguistic symmetry

Lilia Rissman & Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Linguistic
and nonlinguistic event categories have similar prototype structure

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): *Insights into how language
transforms the mind and brain from studies with blind individuals*

5-7pm: Invited Session 5

Paul Pietroski (Rutgers University): The Extension Dogma

Alexis Wellwood (University of Southern California): Composition,
comparison, and cognition

All times GMT/UTC.



On behalf of the organizers,



Rachel Dudley

Isabelle Dautriche

- Conference chairs
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