Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03679; 14 Dec 93 16:03:37 EST Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa16352; 14 Dec 93 16:02:54 EST Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA22714; Tue, 14 Dec 93 11:43:23 PST Message-Id: <9312141943.AA22714@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: Peter.Broeder@kub.nl (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)) Subject: Workshop Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 11:43:20 -0800 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU *************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Workshop on 'Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition' April 21-23, 1994 Tilburg University, The Netherlands ****************************************************** Organizers: Peter Broeder (Tilburg) Jaap Murre (Cambridge) Scientific committee: Melissa Bowerman (Nijmegen) Peter Coopmans (Utrecht) Guus Extra (Tilburg) Peter Jordens (Amsterdam) Sponsored by: L.O.T. (Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde), The Dutch national Ph.D. program in Linguistics AIM OF THE WORKSHOP The workshop is centered around two basic questions with respect to the nature and origins of language as "an individual phenomenon": (1) What constitutes knowledge of language? (2) How is knowledge of language acquired? Currently, these questions are being addressed within different cognitive models of language acquisition which derive from strongly contrasting research paradigms. The paradigms start from fundamentally different assumptions about language (symbolic or subsymbolic) and the mechanisms that drive the process of language acquisition (inductive or deductive). The workshop will focus on processes of language acquisition in children and adults and on modelling theses processes. In particular, the acquisition and representation of words will be a central topic. The workshop aims to bring together researchers willing to discuss the merits and constraints of the various models based on the interdisciplinary approaches of linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, NLP, and AI. PARTICIPANTS Melissa Bowerman (Nijmegen), Harald Clahsen (Colchester), Vivian Cook (Colchester), Peter Coopmans (Utrecht), Walter Daelemans (Tilburg), Guus Extra (Tilburg), Michael Gasser (Indiana), Steven Gillis (Antwerp), Peter Jordens (Amsterdam), Gerard Kempen (Leiden), Brian MacWhinney (Pittsburg), Paul Meara (Swansea), Dennis Norris (Cambridge), Kim Plunkett (Oxford), Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg), Mike Sharwood-Smith (Utrecht), Paul Smolensky (Colorado), Sven Stromqvist (Goteborg). ABSTRACTS We invite those interested to submit a two-page abstract (for a 30 minute oral presentation) by January 15, 1994. We would prefer to receive the abstracts by e-mail. The organizers can be contacted at the following addresses: Peter Broeder Jaap Murre Department of Linguistics Medical Research Council University of Tilburg Applied Psychology Unit P.O. Box 90153 15 Chaucer Road 5000 LE Tilburg Cambridge CB2 2EF The Netherlands United Kingdom tel: +31 13-662239 tel: +44 223 355294 fax: +31 13-663110 fax: +44 223 359062 e-mail: peter.broeder@kub.nl e-mail: jaap.murre@mrc-apu.cam.ac.apu