Workshop on Events in Language and Cognition 2016

2016年语言与认知活动研讨会

• 批准号: 1606285
• 负责人: Joshua Hartshorne
• 金额: $ 0.65万
• 依托单位: Boston College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1606285&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Events; Language; Cognition; 2016

Language and communication are fundamental to being human. Alone of all animals, humans can tell one another their thoughts and pass along proposals, instructions, warnings, and other ideas. Despite great scientific and technological advances in understanding formal properties of language such as grammar, relatively little is known about how language conveys thought. One major reason is that in order to explain how language conveys thought, we need to understand the structure of thought itself. The structure of thought is not well understood, particularly when it comes to thoughts about events (building a house, eating dinner, etc.). As a result, our understanding of how language conveys events is particularly poor. Without this missing piece, our understanding of human nature is incomplete and our language technology is limited. One difficulty in accounting for how humans use language to describe and discuss events is that--in addition to the fact that events are highly abstract and thus difficult to study--work on event representations is scattered across different scientific fields with different theoretical underpinnings, methods, and terminologies. This workshop has been organized to bridge these differences by bringing together leading researchers to share recent advances, assess the state of the research, build ties between research fields, and plot a way forward.The one-day workshop will consist of two invited presentations, seven juried talks, a poster session with approximately 20 posters, and a closing discussion. The poster session will help ensure ample opportunity for student presentations and involvement. In keeping with the interdisciplinary focus of the meeting, one invited speaker is a linguist and the other is a psychologist who specializes in language acquisition, and the closing discussion will be led by two researchers who study events from a non-linguistic perspective. Juried talks and posters will be chosen with an eye towards diversity in seniority, demographics, research tradition, and phenomenon of interest. The workshop is co-located with the premier American psycholinguistics conference (the CUNY Human Sentence Processing conference), since many attendees at that conference have research expertise relating to both language and thought.

语言和沟通对于人类至关重要。人类独自一人，人类可以互相告诉他们的思想，并通过建议，指示，警告和其他想法。尽管在理解语法等语言的形式属性方面的科学和技术进步方面取得了巨大的进步，但对于语言如何传达的思想知之甚少。一个主要原因是，为了解释语言如何传达思想，我们需要理解思想本身的结构。思想的结构尚未充分理解，尤其是关于事件的思想（建造房屋，吃晚餐等）。 结果，我们对语言如何传达事件的理解特别贫穷。没有这些缺失的作品，我们对人性的理解是不完整的，我们的语言技术是有限的。考虑人类如何使用语言来描述和讨论事件的困难之一是，除了事件高度抽象，因此很难研究的事实之外，事件表示的工作散布在具有不同理论基础，方法和术语不同的不同科学领域。该研讨会是通过将领先的研究人员汇集在一起​​分享最新进展，评估研究状况，在研究领域之间建立联系并绘制前进的道路来弥合这些差异的组织。为期一天的讲习班将包括两个受邀演讲，七个评审演讲，一个海报会议，大约20个海报，并进行了闭幕讨论。海报会议将有助于确保有足够的学生演讲和参与机会。为了与会议的跨学科重点保持一致，一位受邀的演讲者是语言学家，另一个是一位专门从事语言获取的心理学家，闭幕式讨论将由两个研究人员主持，他们从非语言角度研究事件。陪审团的会谈和海报将着眼于资历，人口统计，研究传统和感兴趣的现象的多样性。该研讨会与美国总理心理语言学会议（CUNY人类判刑加工会议）共同分居，因为该会议上的许多与会者都具有与语言和思想有关的研究专业知识。