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Computer Sciences

Workshop on Internal and External Pressures Shaping Language

When:

31 July - 11 August 2023

School:

ESS in Logic, Language and Information

Institution:

University of Ljubljana

City:

Ljubljana

Country:

Slovenia

Language:

English

Credits:

0.0 EC

Fee:

490 EUR

Interested?

About

Human languages vary in their phonology, morphosyntax and semantics, but there are important constraints on this variation. What explains these typological similarities and differences across languages? Recent work has combined tools from linguistics, cognitive psychology and computer science to address this question. In addition to empirical discoveries, this has led to novel hypotheses for how similarities and differences are to be accounted for, invoking internal (e.g. cognitive) and/or external (e.g. communicative, historical, geographical) pressures on language structure. The aims of the workshop are two-fold: (i) expand the knowledge of different internal and external pressures on language, and how they explain cross-linguistic similarities and differences in different aspects of language structure, (ii) invite a critical discussion of implications of this work for the study of human cognition more generally.

Course leader

Milica Denić

Target group

Students

Interested?

When:

31 July - 11 August 2023

School:

ESS in Logic, Language and Information

Institution:

University of Ljubljana

Language:

English

Credits:

0.0 EC

Fee:

490 EUR, Early student registration

Fee:

690 EUR, Early non-academic registration

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