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<font size=4><b><x-tab> </x-tab>Space
in languages: linguistic systems and cognitive categories <br>
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February 2003 <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Ecole
Normale Supérieure (salle Dussane) <br>
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rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris <br>
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</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>International
conference organized by the research group<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>on
<i>Language diversity and change: cognitive implications </i>(GDR
1955)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Financed
by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Contact:
<font color="#0000FF"><u>secretariat.tul@ivry.cnrs.fr<br>
</u></font><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Web
page
:<a href="http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/Pages/SpaceLang.htm" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/Pages/SpaceLang.htm</a><br>
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<b><u>Friday 7 February<br>
<br>
</u>9h15-9h30<x-tab> </x-tab>Opening<br>
<br>
9h30-10h10</b><x-tab> </x-tab><b>Colette
Grinevald</b> <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Laboratoire
Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon 2)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>The
expression of static location in a typological perspective.<br>
<br>
</i><b>10h10-10h50 <x-tab> </x-tab>Denis Creissels
<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Laboratoire
Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon 2) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Encoding
the distinction between localization, the source of motion, and the
direction<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>of
motion: a typological study.</i> <br>
<br>
<b>10h50-11h20<x-tab> </x-tab>Pause<br>
<br>
11h20-12h00<x-tab> </x-tab>Alain
Peyraube<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Centre
de Recherche sur les Langues d'Asie Orientale, EHESS Paris)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>On
the history of place words and localizers in Chinese: a cognitive
approach.</i> <br>
<br>
<b>12h00-12h40<x-tab> </x-tab>Marie-Anne
Sallandre <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(UFR
Sciences du Langage, Université de Paris 8)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Iconicity
in discourse: the role of space in French sign language.<br>
<br>
</i><b>12h40-14h30<x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch<br>
<br>
14h30-15h10<x-tab> </x-tab>Chris Sinha<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Department
of Psychology, University of Portsmouth) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Mapping
and construal in spatial language and conceptualization: language
variation<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>and
acquisition.</i> <br>
<br>
<b>15h10-15h50<x-tab> </x-tab>Melissa
Bowerman <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Max-Planck
Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Constructing
language-specific spatial categories in first language acquisition.</i>
<br>
<br>
<b>15h50-16h20<x-tab> </x-tab>Pause<br>
<br>
16h20-17h00<x-tab> </x-tab>Barbara Landau
<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Department
of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>(De)Coupling
of spatial language and spatial cognition.<br>
<br>
</i><b>17h00-17h40<x-tab> </x-tab>Michel
Denis<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(LIMSI,
Orsay)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Deficits
in spatial discourse: the case of Alzheimer patients.<br>
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</i><b><u>Saturday 8 February <br>
<br>
</u>9h30-10h10<x-tab> </x-tab>Anetta
Kopecka <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Laboratoire
Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon 2) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>The
semantic structure of motion verbs in French: typological
perspectives.</i> <br>
<br>
<b>10h10-10h50<x-tab> </x-tab>Maya Hickmann
<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Laboratoire
Cognition et Développement, Université de Paris 5)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>The
relativity of motion in first language acquisition.<br>
<br>
</i><b>10h50-11h20<x-tab> </x-tab>Pause<br>
<br>
11h20-12h00<x-tab> </x-tab>Dan Slobin</b>
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<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Department
of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>What
makes manner of motion salient?<br>
<br>
</i><b>12h00-12h40<x-tab> </x-tab>Jérôme
Dokic & Elisabeth Pacherie <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Institut
Jean Nicod, EHESS Paris)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Molyneux's
question and frames of reference.<br>
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</i><b>12h40-14h30<x-tab> </x-tab>Lunch<br>
<br>
14h30-15h10<x-tab> </x-tab>Pierre Cadiot
& Franck Lebas <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Université
de Paris 8, Laboratoire LATTICE & Université Clermont-Ferrand 2)<i>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>The
French movement verb MONTER as a challenge to the status of spatial
reference.</i> <br>
<br>
<b>15h10-15h50<x-tab> </x-tab>Yves-Marie
Visetti <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(Laboratoire
LATTICE, ENS Paris)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Semantics
and its models of perception and action.<br>
<br>
<b>15h50-16h30<x-tab> </x-tab>Claude
Vandeloise <br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>(State
University of Louisiana, Bâton Rouge)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><i>Are
there spatial prepositions?<br>
<br>
</i><b>16h30-17h00<x-tab> </x-tab>Pause<br>
<br>
17h00-18h00<x-tab> </x-tab>Table Ronde /
Open discussion<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>chaired
by<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><b>Stéphane
Robert</b> (LLACAN, INALCO Paris)<br>
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