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Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 3

The third edition of the Brussels conference on Utterance Interpretation and
Cognitive Models will take place on February 5-7, 2010, under the auspices
of the Belgische Kring voor Linguïstiek / Cercle Belge de Linguistique.

The first edition addressed the issue of the semantics/pragmatics interface
from a cognitive perspective and drew essentially on the work of
semanticists, pragmaticists and philosophers of language. The second
broadened the perspective by inviting the views of scholars from the related
subfields of syntax, cognitive linguistics and evolutionary linguistics. For
this third edition, the focus will be on the developmental and cognitive
determinants of utterance interpretation. On the one hand, the ontogenetic
development of our ability to interpret linguistic utterances provides
invaluable insights into adult cognition; on the other, the methods of
cognitive psychology, with their emphasis on experimental inquiry and
empirical results raise crucial epistemological questions for the progress
of research in the field. The focus of this third edition is fully in
keeping with our continued ambition to reach across disciplinary boundaries
and bring together researchers who, though belonging to different schools or
traditions, all take a view of interpretation that is informed by cognitive
concerns and share the assumption that the ultimate test for any theory of
utterance interpretation is its psychological plausibility.

Keynote lectures:

Bart Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen):
'From consumer psychology to semantic
analysis, and back'
Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, Université Paris 7):
'Prosody in context: Towards an experimental approach'
Ira Noveck (CNRS, Institut des Sciences cognitives, Lyon):
'From sentence meaning to human reasoning'
Josef Perner (Universität Salzburg):
'Identity in development and in the brain'
Dan Sperber (CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod):
'Linguistic comprehension and epistemic vigilance'

For a detailed program and registration information, please go to
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm3/

-- 
Mikhail Kissine
F.R.S.-FNRS
Laboratoire de Linguistique Textuelle et de Pragmatique Cognitive
Université Libre de Bruxelles
CP 175
50, avenue Franklin Roosevelt
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel. ++32(0)2 650 66 74
Fax  ++32(0)2 650 24 50
mkissine@ulb.ac.be
homepages.ulb.ac.be/~mkissine/