Friday, March 26

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks

 

9:00 a.m. Prosody and Meaning

9:00 - 9:45 Howard Nusbaum (University of Chicago) “The Sound of Movement in Speech”                        

9:45 - 10:30 Laura Namy (Emory University) "Acoustic and Perceptual Evidence of Prosodic Correlates to

Word Meaning" 

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:30 Alex Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Honest Signals: Prelinguistic

Communication Patterns in Everyday Interactions"

11:30 - noon Discussion                                             

           

Noon - 1:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch, Conference Center Dining Room

 

1:00 p.m. Non-Arbitrary Linguistics Forms

1:00 - 1:45  Benjamin Bergen (University of California, San Diego) "Phonaesthemes: Frequency and

Psychological Reality"                    

1:45 - 2:30 Lynne Nygaard (Emory University) "Cross Linguistic Sound Symbolism"   

2:30 - 2:45 Break

2:45 - 3:30 Mutsumi Imai (Keio University) "The Role of Sound Symbolism in Early Word Learning"      

3:30 - 4:00 Discussion                                                         

                                                                                          

4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Reception, Great Hearth of the Emory Conference Center

 

Saturday, March 27

9:00 a.m. Potential Mechanisms

9:00 - 9:45   Daphne Maurer (McMaster University) “Synaesthesia: A New Perspective for Understanding

the Development of Perception and Even Language”                        

9:45 - 10:30 Krish Sathian (Emory University)"From Perception to Metaphor"

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:30 Morten Christiansen (Cornell University) "A Possible Division of Labor Between Arbitrary

and Systematic Sound-Meaning Mappings in Language"

11:30 - noon Discussion                                             

           

  Noon - 1:00 p.m. Buffet Lunch, Conference Center Dining Room

 

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Synthesis and Discussion

Robert Goldstone (Indiana University)                   

Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University)

Linda Smith (Indiana University)                     

 

 

This conference is funded by the Emory Cognition Project with co-sponsorship by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture and the Program in Linguistics, and is supported by a grant from the Emory University Subvention Fund.

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