Meaning in Flux 2019 Conference: Connecting development, variation and change; Oct 2019 - New Haven, CT

意义和语音信号之间的联系在语言上是不同的，并且随着时间的推移而系统地变化，不仅在不同的语音社区之间，而且至关重要的是，在同一个语音社区内。2019年的意义是一个在世界上独一无二的会议，它展示了在语言变异和变化动力学的交叉点上的尖端实证和实验研究，以及这些动力学是如何由人类认知架构和人类早期发展(从童年早期到青春期)发生的语言增长过程驱动和/或制约的。会议的具体问题是：(A)语言意义和语言声音动态在多大程度上可被视为产生于实时执行进程并由其指导的动态？(B)这些动力的驱动和传播是如何受到话语语境和其他交际限制的驱动？受到社会压力的影响？(C)意义--声音习得/发展和变化的弧线之间是否存在因果关系？对这些问题的回答在整个社会都有影响，例如对语言障碍和发育障碍的研究，以及对影响教育环境中语言使用的个体差异的理解。它还直接影响了我们对较少被理解的语言社区的理解，例如那些与发育障碍(即自闭症)、社会边缘人群(即黑人、LGBTQ+)和聋人签名人口有关的社区。这样的理解将有助于证明，这些社区都是人类语言、认知和社会属性的预期表现，这应该有助于制定公平的经济、教育和社会政策。会议还纳入了一些学科，这些学科正在指导语音技术和改善人机交互的新工具的创造。这次声音和演讲的迭代只会放大会议所代表的刺激措施对这些应用知识领域和潜在的工业领域可能产生的潜在影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The connections between meanings and the speech signals through which they are linguistically conveyed vary systematically and change systematically over time, not only across speech communities but crucially, within the same speech community. Meaning in Flux 2019 is a conference, unique in the world, that showcases cutting-edge empirical and experimental research at the intersection of language variation and change dynamics and how these dynamics are driven by and/or constrained by the human cognitive architecture and by the processes of language growth that take place during human early development (early childhood through adolescence). The specific questions of the conference are: (a) to what extent are linguistic meaning and linguistic sound dynamics construable as dynamics that emerge from and are guided by real-time implementation processes? (b) how are the actuation and propagation of these dynamics driven by discourse context and other communicative constraints? By societal pressures? (c) are there causal relations between the arcs of meaning-sound acquisition/development and change?Answers to these questions have ramifications throughout society, such as the study of language impairments and developmental disabilities, and the understanding of individual differences as they impact language use in educational settings. It also has direct implications for our understanding of lesser understood speech communities, such as those connected to developmental disabilities (i.e. Autism), societally marginalized peoples (i.e. Black, LGBTQ+), and the Deaf Signing population. Such understanding will help demonstrate that these communities are all expected manifestations of the linguistic, cognitive, and social properties of humankind, which should inform the creation of fair economic, educational, and social policy. The conference also incorporates disciplines that are guiding the creation of new tools for speech technology and improved human-machine interaction. The inclusion for this iteration of sound and speech will only amplify the potential impact that the stimulus that the conference represents can have on these applied areas of knowledge and potentially of industry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.