Sound Symbolism: Challenging the Arbitrariness of Language |
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| Conference Dates: March 26-27, 2010 | |||
| Conference Location: Emory Conference Center Hotel, 1615 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30329 | |||
| Organizers: Dr. Lynne C. Nygaard, Dr. Laura L. Namy (Emory University) | |||
| Conference Schedule (downloadable slides at links below): | |||
Friday, March 26 |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks (Laura Namy and Lynne Nygaard) | ||
Prosody and Meaning |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Howard Nusbaum (University of Chicago) "The Sound of Movement in Speech" | ||
| 9:45 a.m. | Laura Namy (Emory University) "Acoustic and Perceptual Evidence of Prosodic Correlates to Word Meaning" | ||
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | ||
| 10:45 a.m. | Alex Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Honest Signals: Prelinguistic Communication Patterns in Everyday Interactions" | ||
| 11:30 a.m. | Discussion | ||
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Buffet (Conference Center Dining Room) | ||
Non-Arbitrary Linguistic Forms |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Benjamin Bergen (University of California, San Diego) "Phonaesthemes: Frequency and Psychological Reality" | ||
| 1:45 p.m. | Lynne Nygaard (Emory University) "Cross-Linguistic Sound Symbolism" | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Break | ||
| 2:45 p.m. | Mutsumi Imai (Keio University) "The Role of Sound Symbolism in Early Word Learning" | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | Discussion | ||
| 4:00 p.m. | Reception (Conference Center Pub) | ||
Saturday, March 27 |
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Potential Mechanisms |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Daphne Maurer (McMaster University) "Synaesthesia: A New Perspective for Understanding the Development of Perception and Even Language" | ||
| 9:45 a.m. | Krish Sathian (Emory University) "From Perception to Metaphor" | ||
| 10:30 a.m. | Break | ||
| 10:45 a.m. | Morten Christiansen (Cornell University) "A Possible Division of Labor Between Arbitrary and Systematic Sound-Meaning Mappings in Language" | ||
| 11:30 a.m. | Discussion | ||
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Buffet (Conference Center Dining Room) | ||
Synthesis and Discussion |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Linda Smith (Indiana University) | ||
| 1:30 p.m. | Robert Goldstone (Indiana University) | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University) | ||
This Workshop is sponsored by the Emory Cognition Project and co-sponsored by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, the Program in Linguistics, and a grant from the Emory University Subvention Fund. Questions? please contact Lauren Clepper at lauren.clepper@emory.edu
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