30.889, Summer Schools: Norwegian Summer Institute on Language and Mind/Norway

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Subject: 30.889, Summer Schools:  Norwegian Summer Institute on Language and Mind/Norway

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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:07:54
From: Nicholas Allott [nicholas.allott at gmail.com]
Subject: Norwegian Summer Institute on Language and Mind/Norway

Norwegian Summer Institute on Language and Mind

Host Institution: University of Oslo
Website: http://folk.uio.no/nicholea/summerinstitute/

Dates: 30-Jul-2019 - 09-Aug-2019
Location: Oslo, Norway

Focus: The institute brings graduate students (MA-level and doctoral researchers) from around the world up to date with developments in work on language and mind by presenting classes with leading researchers in the relevant fields. These include linguists, psychologists and other cognitive scientists open to philosophical issues, and philosophers focused on linguistics and the cognitive sciences. One of the key aims of the summer institute is to foster connections between students in all these areas.

The summer institute focusses on work that is committed to: i) realism about the mental representations postulated in theories of language and communication, perception and other mental faculties; ii) exploring the consequences of such realism. We therefore aim for a balance between theoretical and experimental topics. The theoretical work presented is carefully chosen to prioritise research that is in dialogue with experimental and developmental work and work on processing. Likewise, we choose experimental work that has interesting consequences for higher-level theories.
Minimum Education Level: BA

Special Qualifications:
This summer school is for graduate students: i.e. those enrolled on, or about to start, a masters or doctoral programme.

Description:
Invited lecturers

Robyn Carston (University College London)
Stephen Crain (Macquarie University)
Steven Gross (Johns Hopkins University)
Michael Rescorla (University of California, Los Angeles)
Rosalind Thornton (Macquarie University)
Agustín Vicente (IKERBASQUE: Basque Foundation for Science)

Organisers/local lecturers

Nicholas Allott (University of Oslo)
Anna Drożdżowicz (University of Oslo)
Carsten Hansen (University of Oslo)
Terje Lohndal (NTNU, Trondheim, & UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Georges Rey (University of Maryland at College Park)

The teaching

Classes are from Tuesday – Saturday and then Monday – Friday.

The first day will have introductory lectures to get everyone up to speed with
the relevant parts of linguistics, philosophy and psychology.
For the rest of the course, days will include 90 minute classes on each of the
three "strands" (see below). Teaching will be discursive, with plenty of time
for questions and answers in each class.

There will also be two round-table discussion sessions, where we will discuss
issues across the strands, guided by student questions.

We are also planning to have a student poster session, where you can present
your own work.

Lectures:

Words and concepts:

Invited Lecturers: Robyn Carston (UCL) and and Agustín Vicente (IKERBASQUE)

Lecturer/convenor: Nicholas Allott

Topics to be confirmed, but are likely to include: the relationship between
language and thought; lexical semantics, concepts and the semantics-pragmatics
interface; polysemy; metonymy; inner speech

The acquisition of linguistic structure and meaning:

Invited Lecturers: Stephen Crain (Macquarie University) and Rosalind Thornton
(Macquarie University)

Lecturer/convenor: Terje Lohndal

Topics to include: children’s acquisition of hard-to-observe properties such
as disjunction, quantifiers and scope, negation, long-distance dependencies.
The interplay between nature and nurture in language acquisition, child
language experiments and design.

Investigating the language faculty and other mental faculties:

Invited Lecturers: Steven Gross (Johns Hopkins) and Michael Rescorla (UCLA)

Internal lecturer(s): Carsten Hansen and/or Georges Rey

Lecturer/convenor: Anna Drożdżowicz

Topics to be confirmed, but could include: The Computational Theory of Mind;
levels of computational explanation; non-propositional mental representation;
the role of intuitions and other data in linguistics, with coverage of both
theoretical and experimental work; the use of artificial languages in work on
language acquisition; cognitive penetrability in theories of mental faculties;
Bayesian modelling of the mind (especially perception, motor control, and
navigation)

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                      Discipline of Linguistics
                      Language Acquisition
                      Linguistic Theories
                      Philosophy of Language
                      Pragmatics
                      Semantics
                      Syntax

Tuition: 0 EUR

Tuition Explanation: The classes at the summer institute are free for all registered participants.

We provide a simple lunch on teaching days to all registered participants.
Students are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence.

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 02-Apr-2019
All summer institute participants who are current PhD students at institutions affiliated with the Norwegian Graduate Researcher School in Linguistics and Philology will be able to receive bursaries.

We have some very limited funding to partially support a few other students. These bursaries will be assigned competitively.

Financial Aid Instructions:
Apply as normal and select the appropriate option in the Google Form: 'My application is for a place on the summer institute and a bursary'

Registration: 14-Feb-2019 to 02-Apr-2019

Contact Person: Nicholas Allott
                Email: nicholas.allott at gmail.com

Apply on the web: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz7EuxM3_zOnu5g81a-uopAzNt6tTe-u6io2otL7MjHbkC5Q/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link

Registration Instructions:
There are limited places on the summer institute. Please fill in our Google
Form, and follow the instructions there to apply.
(You have to enter a few details about yourself, paste a short covering letter
into the form, then email us a CV/resumé.)

How do we choose?

We evaluate all the applications together after the closing date, 2nd April
2019.

We are looking for students who we think will benefit from the summer
institute and who have the most to offer to the institute.

We’re aiming to make our decisions by 3rd May 2019. 
(Please don't email us before then to ask for our decision. We'll let everyone
know as soon as we are able.)

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