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
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
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)