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About SEAMS

The Symposium on Empirical Approaches to Meaning and Structure (SEAMS) is a hybrid event, allowing participation and attendance from colleagues worldwide. It is designed as a forum for exchanging ideas and advancing our understanding of how empirical research can shed light on meaning and structure. We invite abstracts that address any topic relevant to empirical methods of meaning and structure across multiple language families.​​​

SEAMS brings together researchers using empirical methods to investigate structure and meaning in language, with an intended focus on understudied or minority languages.

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​The symposium aims to promote the inclusion of diverse data sources that are often underrepresented in theoretical debates. Such contributions are especially valuable for testing the robustness of existing frameworks, uncovering new empirical generalizations, and expanding our understanding of the cognitive and social dimensions of language. By highlighting a broad range of methodologies, from experimental techniques (e.g. eye-tracking, self-paced reading, neuroimaging, acceptability rating) to corpus studies and computational modeling, SEAMS aims to foster dialogue across theoretical and methodological traditions.

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