33.634, Calls: General Linguistics/Canada
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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-634. Fri Feb 18 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 33.634, Calls: General Linguistics/Canada
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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:10:45
From: Angelika Bacher [Angelika.Bacher at uqtr.ca]
Subject: First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Full Title: First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Short Title: BioLing1
Date: 24-Jun-2022 - 26-Jun-2022
Location: Quebec, Canada
Contact Person: Angelika Bacher
Meeting Email: bioling393 at gmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 01-May-2022
Meeting Description:
Theme: Meeting the Conditions of Learnability and Evolvability.
Invited Speakers
CALIXTO AGÜERO-BAUTISTA (UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES)
SANDIWAY FONG (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
WOLFRAM HINZEN (POMPEU FABRA UNIVERSITY)
NORBERT HORNSTEIN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
RICHARD LARSON (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK)
HOWARD LASNIK (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
SHIGERU MIYAGAWA (MIT)
MASSIMO PIATELLI PALMARINI (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
DAVID POEPPEL (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY/MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL
AESTHETICS)
KARIN STROMSWOLD (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)
Chomsky (2019) notes that the human, species-specific faculty of language
(FL), must meet “competing” conditions of learnability and evolvability. FL
must be rich enough to allow a child to acquire a language from the scattered
and limited data made available in the differing expressions of typologically
differing languages. FL must also be “simple enough so that it could have
evolved.” Chomsky offers these dual conditions as “conditions for a genuine
explanation” asserting that any proposal failing to meet them will fall short
of “actually explaining things, even if the given proposal might be valuable
in ‘organizing data in an interesting way’.”
>From the perspective of the Minimalist Program (MP), arguably the best way for
the FL to meet the empirical conditions of learnability and evolvability is
for its architecture to have the simplest possible structure, for example,
along the lines conjectured by Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002), Chomsky
(2016), Berwick and Chomsky (2016), and Chomsky (2019).
The BioLing research project of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is
hosting its first conference on biolinguistics to explore possible ways of
meeting the aforementioned conditions. The conference will be online due to
the emergence of the Omicron variant of the COVID19 virus.
Call for Papers:
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (25 minute talk + 5 minute
question period) on proposals that contribute to the achievement of one or
more of the following objectives:
1. Contribute to the simplification of the FL by unifying multiple phenomena.
2. Show that certain mysterious phenomena follow naturally from the nature of
the Merge operation.
3. Provide new information on the overall structure of the FL.
Proposals from all areas of linguistics and related fields are welcome.
Researchers working on one or more of the following areas are specially
encouraged to apply:
1. Externalization systems (e.g., phonological system, sign systems, tactile
systems) and their implication for the overall structure of FL.
2. The relation between I-language and symbolic cognition.
3. The relation between I-language and Logic.
4. Language and Comparative cognition (the type of work that C. Randy
Gallistel does on the concept of number in animals and the presence or absence
of the successor function is an example of research in this area)
5. Merge and its relation to the emergence of the successor function in
children and animals
6. Brain resources and linguistic computation (what’s the right level of
granularity for linguistic computations (is it neuronal, molecular, or even
more fine-grained?))
7. Neurolinguistics
8. Psycholinguistics
9. Language pathology
Abstracts can be submitted in either English or French and must not exceed 2
pages of letter-size or A4 paper; including examples, graphic, and references.
Abstracts should be typed in a font no smaller than 11 points and should have
1” margins on all sides. They must be submitted in a PDF format and should
contain a clear title. We adopt a doubly blind submission and reviewing
process; hence authors should not include their names on the abstracts they
are submitting. Please send abstracts to bioling393 at gmail.com
Scientific Committee:
Anne-Sophie Bally (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Paul John
(Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Éric Poirier (Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières), Charles Reiss (Concordia University), Nina Woll (Université
du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
Deadline for Abstracts: May 1, 2022
Notifications: By May 29, 2022
Conference Date: June 24-26, 2022.
Meeting Location: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Online)
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