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<div>posted for Dan Everett</div>
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<div>Folks,</div>
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<div>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: <a
href=
"http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2390&eventDisp=107recurs&CFID=6447358&CFTOKEN=81329298"><span
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>http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2390&eventDisp=107r<span
></span>ecurs&CFID=6447358&CFTOKEN=81329298</a></div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Dan Everett</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+3"><b>Recursion in Human
Languages</b></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font size="+3"><b>Final Schedule</b></font><br>
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<div><b>0900</b><br>
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<div>Aravind Joshi, Penn: 'Does recursion in language work the same
way as in formal systems?'<br>
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<b>1000</b><br>
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<div>COFFEE<br>
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<b>1015</b><br>
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<div>Hans-Joerg Tiede & Lawrence Stout, Illinois Wesleyan
University: 'Recursion, infinity, and modeling'<br>
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<b>1050</b><br>
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<div>Arie Verhagen, University of Leiden: 'What do you think is the
proper location of recursion? An empirical<br>
exploration'<br>
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<b>1125</b><br>
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<div>D. Terence Langendoen, National Science Foundation &
University of Arizona: 'Are human languages transrecursive?'<br>
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<b>1200</b><br>
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<div>Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University: 'Grammar without
recursion: implications for evolutionary studies'<br>
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<b>1235</b><br>
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<div>LUNCH<br>
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<b>1335</b><br>
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<div>Simon Levy, Washington & Lee University: 'Becoming
recursive'<br>
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<b>1410</b><br>
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<div>Ritva Laury, University of Helsinki, & Tsuyoshi Ono,
University of Alberta: 'Recursion in conversation: what speakers of
Finnish and Japanese know how to do"<br>
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<b>1445</b><br>
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<div>Anna Parker, University of Edinburgh: 'Was recursion the key step
in the evolution of the human language faculty?'<br>
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<b>1520</b><br>
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<div>COFFEE<br>
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<b>1535</b><br>
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<div>Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University: 'Recursion in animal
behavior: the origin of recursion in human language'<br>
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<div><b>1610</b><br>
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<div>Amy Perfors, Josh Tennenbaum, Terry Regier, MIT: ' Hierarchical
phrase structure and recursion: A Bayesian exploration of
learnability'<br>
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<b>1645 - 1745</b><br>
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<div>Marianne Mithun, UCSB: A typology of recursion<br>
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<div><font size="+3"><b>SATURDAY, April 28</b></font><br>
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<div><b>0900</b><br>
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<div>Edward Gibson, MIT: Processing Recursive Structures<br>
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<b>1000</b><br>
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<div>COFFEE<br>
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<b>1015</b><br>
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<div>Jeanette Sakel & Eugenie Stapert, University of Manchester:
'Possible markers of embedding in Pirahã: evidence for<br>
recursion?'<br>
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<b>1050</b><br>
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<div>Eva Juarros-Daussá, University at Buffalo, SUNY: 'Lack of
recursion in the lexicon: the two-argument restriction'<br>
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<b>1125</b><br>
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<div>Jan Koster, University of Groningen: 'Recursion and the
lexicon'<br>
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<b>1200</b><br>
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<div>Fred Karlsson, University of Helsinki: 'Empirically motivated
constraints on clausal recursion'<br>
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<div><b>1235</b><br>
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<div>LUNCH<br>
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<b>1335</b><br>
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<div>Alec Marantz, New York University: Recursion in Morphology<br>
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<b>1435</b><br>
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<div>Yury Lander, Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, &
Alexander Letuchiny, Russian State University for the<br>
Humanities: 'Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology'<br>
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<div><b>1510</b><br>
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<div>Yoad Winter, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study: 'Recursion
in the semantics of coordination'<br>
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<b>1545</b><br>
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<div>Harry Howard, Tulane University: 'Recursion and the computational
modeling of prefrontal cortex'<br>
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<b>1620</b><br>
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<div>Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen, & Thomas Roeper,
University of Massachusetts: 'Recursion and propositional
exclusivity'<br>
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<b>1655</b><br>
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<div>Michael Wagner, Cornell University: 'Prosody and recursion in
coordinate structures and beyond'<br>
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<b>1730</b><br>
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<div>COFFEE<br>
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<b>1745</b><br>
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<div>Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen, Hungary: 'Cognitive
grouping and prosodic recursion'<br>
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<b>1820 - 1920</b><br>
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<div>D. Robert Ladd, Edinburgh: What would 'recursion' mean in
phonology?<br>
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<div><font size="+3"><b>SUNDAY, April 29</b></font><br>
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<div><b>0900</b><br>
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<div>Daniel L. Everett, ISU: Cultural constraints on recursion<br>
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<b>1000</b><br>
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<div>Coffee and snacks<br>
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<b>1020</b><br>
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<div>Damir Cavar & Malgorzata E. Cavar, University of Zadar,
Croatia: 'Inducing recursion'<br>
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<b>1055</b><br>
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<div>Vitor Zimmerer & Rosemary Varley, University of Sheffield:
'Recursive syntax in patients with severe agrammatism'<br>
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<b>1130</b><br>
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<div>James Rogers, Earlham College, & Marc Hauser, Harvard
University: 'Potential distinguishing characteristics and human<br>
aural pattern recognition'<br>
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<b>1205</b><br>
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<div>COFFEE<br>
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<div><b>1220</b><br>
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<div>Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen:<b> '</b> Over the top:
recursion as a functional option'</div>
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<div><b>1255</b><br>
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<div>Geoffrey K. Pullum, UCSC: Recursion and the infinitude claim<br>
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<b>1355</b><br>
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<div>CONFERENCE ENDS<br>
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