The Language in Interaction Consortium (LiI) is pleased to announce the Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference 2024, celebrating the conclusion of our 10-year Gravitation Programme and the advances made in language-related disciplines including genetics, neuroscience, psychology, linguistics and computational modeling.

The conference will take place 8-11 July 2024 at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. We are putting together an exciting programme with top-level key experts in the relevant fields of research. Confirmed speakers include David Poeppel (NYU, Strungmann Institute, Frankfurt), Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (CNRS Paris), Vera Demberg (Universität des Saarlandes), Uri Hasson (Universiy of Princeton), Barbara Kaup (University Tübingen), Tal Linzen (NYU). For the full program and line-up, go to our website: https://hils2024.nl/

The conference will celebrate 10 years of the Language in Interaction Consortium and aims to bring together scientists working on different aspects of language comprehension and production across several languages, language modalities and experimental paradigms. It will provide an opportunity to discuss and explore different approaches to the “Big Questions” of the consortium, encompassing the investigation of the mental lexicon by computational modelling, neuroscientific and psycholinguistic theories; the characteristics and consequences of the internal brain organization for language; the role of communicative settings and shared cognitive spaces in shaping language; variability in language processing and learning; the inferential cognitive geometry of language and action planning.

Submission Guidelines

We invite abstract submissions for poster presentations in all topic areas related to the conference. Submissions should not exceed 350 words of text (excluding references) and should fit on one A4 page. In addition, abstracts can include one page of figures and/or tables.

List of Topics

• Mental lexicon by computational modelling
• Neuroscientific and psycholinguistic theories
• The characteristics and consequences of the internal brain organization for language
• The role of communicative settings and shared cognitive spaces in shaping language
• Variability in language processing and learning
• The inferential cognitive geometry of language and action planning

Venue

The conference will be held in the Grotius Building on the campus of the Radboud University in Nijmegen.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hils2024@languageininteraction.nl