LINGUIST List 24.2576
Tue Jun 25 2013
Confs: Language Acquisition, Socioling, Cognitive Sci, Psycholing, Neuroling/USA
Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee
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Date: 24-Jun-2013
From: Vitaly Nikolaev <vvn2
georgetown.edu>
Subject: GURT 2014: Usage-based Approaches to Language, Language Learning, and Multilingualism
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GURT 2014: Usage-based Approaches to Language, Language Learning, and Multilingualism
Short Title: GURT 2014 & CASPSLaP
Date: 13-Mar-2014 - 16-Mar-2014
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Contact: Lourdes Ortega
Contact Email:
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Meeting URL:
http://www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2014/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
GURT 2014 will bring together research from various usage-based perspectives in order to explore (a) how communicative context and language use, in interaction with general cognitive processes, shape the properties of language, language change, and language learning and (b) the consequences of bilingualism and multilingualism for usage-based theorizing and investigation.
Researchers who take a usage-based perspective (broadly defined) have argued that linguistic structure cannot be fully understood if isolated from the study of how language is employed to create meaning. Moreover, an increasing number of researchers from the fields of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, bilingualism, and multilingualism have argued that language learning is guided in crucial ways by the contexts of meaningful learning is guided in crucial ways by the contexts of meaningful communication in which language use is embedded. Overlapping strands of investigation pursued by these researchers include: (1) the importance of general human cognitive processes in interaction with the physical-social world in shaping cognition and language; (2) the connection between linguistic form and function; (3) the importance of frequency and saliency in the input on language learning and language change; (4) the centrality of diversity and variability in explaining language and language learning; and (5) the connections between language, language learning, and general properties of cognition. These insights call for new levels of interdisciplinarity in the study of language and multilingualism in the brain/mind, in schools/classrooms, and in society/communities.
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