<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 class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">Final Call for Abstracts</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">** <b class="">Extended Deadline – June 6th, 2019</b> **</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">Conference on </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">24-26 October, 2019</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">Saarbruecken, Germany</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational probabilistic approaches, such as </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">— from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based investigation, through to language change and evolution — </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">that have benefited from, and share, such rational explanations. </span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;"><b class="">Keynote speakers:</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Gerhard Jaeger</b>, </span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">University of </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Tuebingen</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;"><i class=""> Bayesian typology</i></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Gina Kuperberg</b>, </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Tufts University and Massachusetts General Hospital</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;"><i class=""> What a probabilistic computational approach can tell us about us about the neurobiology of language comprehension</i></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Hannah Rohde</b></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, University of Edinburgh</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;"> <i class="">Why are you telling me this: Comprehension as a process of reverse engineering</i></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i class=""></i></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Rory Turnbull</b></span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">,</b> </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;"><i class=""> Phonetic reduction, natural selection, and bounded rationality</i></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 15px;">We seek submissions from across the language sciences — including <b class="">speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution</b> — which apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Submissions in the form of a <b class="">400 word abstract</b> (excluding references), in <b class="">text format</b>, are to be submitted electronically at: <a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019" class="">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Submissions open: 1 May 2019</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Submissions due: 6 June 2019 (midnight CET)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2019</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Conference: 24-26 October 2019</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. Details on the submission format and procedure are also available at the conference web-page: <a href="http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/" class="">http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Conference organizers:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Matthew Crocker (chair)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Bistra Andreeva</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Vera Demberg</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Robin Lemke</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Noortje Venhuizen</div></body></html>