First Recursion

[Frans Plank]

posted for Dan Everett
FP






Folks,

The final program for the conference Recursion in 
Human Languages, the first conference on this 
subject, is attached below. Online registration 
for the conference  can be done 
at:  <http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2390&eventDisp=107recurs&CFID=6447358&CFTOKEN=81329298>http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2390&eventDisp=107recurs&CFID=6447358&CFTOKEN=81329298


Bloomington-Normal airport is a 20 minute flight 
from O'Hare or Midway airports in Chicago and the 
ISU campus can be reached also by Amtrak (5 times 
daily) or car (123 miles) from Chicago.

Dan Everett

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Recursion in Human Languages

Final Schedule



0900

Aravind Joshi, Penn: 'Does recursion in language 
work the same way as in formal systems?'


1000

COFFEE


1015

Hans-Joerg Tiede & Lawrence Stout, Illinois 
Wesleyan University: 'Recursion, infinity, and 
modeling'


1050

Arie Verhagen, University of Leiden: 'What do you 
think is the proper location of recursion? An 
empirical
exploration'


1125

D. Terence Langendoen, National Science 
Foundation & University of Arizona: 'Are human 
languages transrecursive?'


1200

Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University: 
'Grammar without recursion: implications for 
evolutionary studies'


1235

LUNCH


1335

Simon Levy, Washington & Lee University: 'Becoming recursive'


1410

Ritva Laury, University of Helsinki, & Tsuyoshi 
Ono, University of Alberta: 'Recursion in 
conversation: what speakers of Finnish and 
Japanese know how to do"


1445

Anna Parker, University of Edinburgh: 'Was 
recursion the key step in the evolution of the 
human language faculty?'


1520

COFFEE


1535

Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University: 
'Recursion in animal behavior: the origin of 
recursion in human language'



1610

Amy Perfors, Josh Tennenbaum, Terry Regier, MIT: 
' Hierarchical phrase structure and recursion: A 
Bayesian exploration of learnability'


1645 - 1745

Marianne Mithun, UCSB: A typology of recursion



SATURDAY, April 28



0900

Edward Gibson, MIT: Processing Recursive Structures


1000

COFFEE


1015

Jeanette Sakel & Eugenie Stapert, University of 
Manchester: 'Possible markers of embedding in 
Pirahã: evidence for
recursion?'


1050

Eva Juarros-Daussá, University at Buffalo, SUNY: 
'Lack of recursion in the lexicon: the 
two-argument restriction'


1125

Jan Koster, University of Groningen: 'Recursion and the lexicon'


1200

Fred Karlsson, University of Helsinki: 
'Empirically motivated constraints on clausal 
recursion'

1235

LUNCH


1335

Alec Marantz, New York University: Recursion in Morphology


1435

Yury Lander, Institute for Oriental Studies, 
Moscow, & Alexander Letuchiny, Russian State 
University for the
Humanities: 'Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology'



1510

Yoad Winter, Netherlands Institute for Advanced 
Study: 'Recursion in the semantics of 
coordination'


1545

Harry Howard, Tulane University: 'Recursion and 
the computational modeling of prefrontal cortex'


1620

Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen, & 
Thomas Roeper, University of Massachusetts: 
'Recursion and propositional exclusivity'


1655

Michael Wagner, Cornell University: 'Prosody and 
recursion in coordinate structures and beyond'


1730

COFFEE


1745

Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen, Hungary: 
'Cognitive grouping and prosodic recursion'


1820 - 1920

D. Robert Ladd, Edinburgh: What would 'recursion' mean in phonology?



SUNDAY, April 29



0900

Daniel L. Everett, ISU: Cultural constraints on recursion


1000

Coffee and snacks


1020

Damir Cavar & Malgorzata E. Cavar, University of 
Zadar, Croatia: 'Inducing recursion'


1055

Vitor Zimmerer & Rosemary Varley, University of 
Sheffield: 'Recursive syntax in patients with 
severe agrammatism'


1130

James Rogers, Earlham College, & Marc Hauser, 
Harvard University: 'Potential distinguishing 
characteristics and human
aural pattern recognition'


1205

COFFEE



1220

Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen: ' Over 
the top: recursion as a functional option'



1255

Geoffrey K. Pullum, UCSC: Recursion and the infinitude claim


1355

CONFERENCE ENDS

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