Second Call for Papers

Conference on
*Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)*

24-26 October, 2019
Saarbruecken, Germany

The language sciences increasingly have in common their adoption of rational
probabilistic approaches, such as Bayesian, Information Theoretic, and Game Theoretic
frameworks. The goal of this conference is to bring together speech and language
researchers whose scientific contributions reflect  the full diversity of disciplines and
methodologies ? from speech to discourse, on-line processing to corpus-based
investigation, through to language change and evolution ? that have benefited from, and
share, such rational explanations.

*Keynote speakers:*

*Gerhard Jaeger*, University of Tuebingen
/  Bayesian typology/

*Gina Kuperberg*, Tufts University and Massachusetts General Hospital
/  What a probabilistic computational approach can tell us about us about the
neurobiology of language comprehension/

*Hannah Rohde*, University of Edinburgh
/Why are you telling me this:  Comprehension as a process of reverse engineering/
//
*Rory Turnbull**,* University of Hawai?i at M?noa
/  Phonetic reduction, natural selection, and bounded rationality/


We seek submissions from across the language sciences ? including speech science,
theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience,
computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution ? which
apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel
experimental findings to bear on such accounts.

Submissions in the form of a *400 word abstract* (excluding references), in *text
format*, are to be submitted electronically at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/rails2019

Submissions open: 1 May
Submissions due: 1 June
Notification of acceptance: 1 July
Conference: October 24-26

Submission will be considered for either oral or poster presentation. Details on the
submission format and procedure are also available at the conference web-page:
http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://rails.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>

Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the *Collaborative
Research Center SFB1102 ?Information Density and Linguistic Encoding?*:
sfb1102.uni-saarland.de <http://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de>


Conference organizers:
Matthew Crocker (chair)
Bistra Andreeva
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
Vera Demberg
Robin Lemke
Noortje Venhuizen First Call for Papers

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