Full Title: Language-Music-Gesture: Informational Crossroads
Short Title: LMGIC-2024

Date: 18-Apr-2024 - 20-Apr-2024
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Contact Person: Polina Eismont
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://events.spbu.ru/events/lmgic-2024

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Phonetics; Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Russian (rus)

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

Conference will be organized by St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and Vaganova Ballet Academy.
The goal of the International Scientific Conference is to create a comfortable interdisciplinary platform for a fruitful broad discussion of the problems of interaction in the conditions of the modern information world of the main semiotic systems that ensure human communication — language, music and gesture.
Among the topics proposed for discussion during the conference are the following:
1. The structure of linguistic and musical knowledge, features of their functioning and formation; implicit and explicit components; general and different in the perception and understanding of music and language.
2. Non-verbal means of communication; prosodic characteristics of speech, their perception; gestures, body language and its interaction with verbal communication.
3. Issues of language acquisition and musical skills; interaction between language and music in the process of their acquisition; interaction between cognitive systems responsible for the perception of musical and linguistic text.
4. Music informatics, computer and electroacoustic music; development of electronic musical instruments and performance principles; neural networks in music and language.
5. Automatic processing of language and music data; quantitative studies of musical and linguistic text.

Call for Papers:

Second International Conference on
Language-Music-Gesture: Informational Crossroads (LMGIC-2024)
Call for papers till November, 30th

Conference languages are Russian and English. Conference will be held in a hybrid format.

Publication
It is planned to publish selected articles in a special volume, indexed in one of the international scientific databases. Articles for publication will be selected based on the results of double-blind peer review.
Based on the results of the first conference, held in 2021, a collection of selected articles was published with Springer.
The collection of conference abstracts is posted in the RISC.

Venues
St. Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Vaganova Ballet Academy
Submissions
Applications from various fields of knowledge are accepted to participate in the conference. Speech time limit: 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
Send your applications to the email address [email protected] before November 30, 2023. Notification of the inclusion of the report in the seminar program – January 30, 2024.
A completely anonymized application must contain brief information about the report in no more than 2 pages (without subheadings) and clearly reflect the statement of the problem, a critical review of the literature, the methodology and results of the study, and the conclusions obtained. Applications must be submitted in pdf format.
If it is necessary to include special characters in the text of the application (for example, phonetic transcription), then please send the application in two formats — pdf and doc.