18.2997, Calls: Cognitive Science,Computational Ling,Syntax/USA

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Subject: 18.2997, Calls: Cognitive Science,Computational Ling,Syntax/USA

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Date: 14-Oct-2007
From: Robert Berwick < berwick at csail.mit.edu >
Subject: Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?

 

	
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Full Title: Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong? 

Date: 19-Oct-2007 - 19-Oct-2007
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Robert Berwick
Meeting Email: berwick at csail.mit.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2000 

Meeting Description

The impetus for this workshop, borrowing from a recent review by Yang in TICS
(2004), is that 'Recent demonstrations of statistical learning in infants have
reinvigorated the innateness versus learning debate in language acquisition,'
particularly regarding syntax. We aim to reexamine this issue in a single forum
from the computational, cognitive, and formal linguistics perspectives. Our
intent is to examine recent applications of statistical learning theory to
language acquisition. 

Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?


When:
        Friday, October 19th, 2007, 9 am - 5:45 pm
        (breakfast 9-9:30; lunch 12:00-1:00; afternoon refreshments)

Where: (Note room change!)
        Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Wong Auditorium
        Building E51 (Tang Center)
        70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
        (http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e51&mapsearch=go)

Webcast:
        This event will not be streamed live but will
        subsequently become available on the web via
        http://mitworld.mit.edu.  Also available via Apple and iTunes at
        iTunes U.

Registration:
        No advance registration required, no fee - open to all.
        RSVP's are appreciated but certainly not required.

Organizers:
    Robert C. Berwick, MIT, berwick at csail.mit.edu
    Michael Coen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mhcoen at cs.wisc.edu






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