<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">First Call for Papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Conference on </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">24-26 October, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Saarbruecken, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational probabilistic approaches, such as </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Bayesian, Information Theoretic, and Game Theoretic frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together speech and language researchers whose scientific contributions reflect the full diversity of disciplines and methodologies </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">— from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based investigation, through to language change and evolution — </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that have benefited from, and share, such rational explanations. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Keynote speakers:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Gerhard Jaeger, <i class="">Tuebingen University</i></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Gina Kuperberg, <i class="">Tufts University</i></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Hannah Rohde, <i class="">University of Edinburgh</i></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rory Turnbull, <i class="">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</i></span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We therefore seek submissions from across the language sciences — including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution — which apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submissions in the form of 400 word abstracts are to be submitted electronically:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submissions open: 1 May</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submissions due: 1 June</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Notification of acceptance: 1 July</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Conference: October 24-26</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. More details on the submission format and procedure will be available soon from the conference web-page: <a href="http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de" class="">rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the <b class="">Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”</b>: </span><a href="http://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de" class="">sfb1102.uni-saarland.de</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Conference organizers:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Matthew Crocker (chair)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Bistra Andreeva</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Vera Demberg</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Robin Lemke</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;" class="">Noortje Venhuizen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>