33.2107, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2107. Thu Jun 23 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2107, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 05:47:52
From: Angelika Bacher [Angelika.Bacher at uqtr.ca]
Subject: First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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: Agelika Bacher 
Contact Email: Angelika.Bacher at uqtr.ca 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

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
different 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.

Program:

Please look at the conference website for important information about this
conference:

https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/gscw030?owa_no_site=7050

Friday (June 24, 2022)
10:00AM -10:30AM Introductory remarks

10:30AM -11:30AM Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland) The Triumph of
Minimalism: A personal view

11:30AM -12:00PM Arturs Semenuks (University of California at San Diego)
Investigating Neural Sensitivity To Hierarchical Structure in Linguistic and
Musical Stimuli in Humans And Rats

12:00PM - 1:00PM Break

1:00PM - 1:30PM Remo Nitschke (University of Arizona) and Anderson Almeida da
Silva (Universidade Federal do Delta do Parnaíba) Homesign And The Speed Of
Externalization:
What homesigners can tell us about the externalization of language capacity.

1:30PM - 2:30PM Wolfram Hinzen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)) Title to be
Announced. 

2:30PM - 3:00PM Break

3:00PM - 3:30PM Aubrey Nunes (Possible Words Clinic, London, UK) The Lockstep
Evolution of Speech and Language and Finite Learnability

3:30PM - 4:30PM Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University) The Nature of Evidence
and the Evidence of Nature: Constrained Productivity and the Faculty of
Language 

Saturday (June 25, 2022)

09:30AM-10:30AM Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) When did Human Language Emerge in
Evolution? Doing detective work based on stone tools, genetics of early
humans, and development of the brain 

10:30AM-11:00AM Jun Omune (Kansai Gaidai University) and Masayuki Komachi
(Shizuoka University) Agree in Strictly Markovian Derivations

11:00AM to 11:30AM Break 

11:30AM-12:00PM Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) Unifying EPP- and
ECP-effects and their Absence in the Nominal Domain

12:00PM-1:00PM Break

1:00PM-2:00PM Massimo Piattelli Palmarini (University of Arizona) and Giuseppe
Vitiello (University of Salerno Italy) Third Factors in Language Design:
suggestions from Quantum Field Theory (QFT)

2:00PM - 2:30PM Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The Evolution
of Truth-Functional Negation

2:30PM-3:00PM Break

3:00PM - 4:00PM Calixto Agüero Bautista (Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières) Prolegomena to the Theory of Everything in Linguistics (TOEL):
How Everything might Follow from Merge

4:00PM - 5:00PM Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) On Optionality:
A Brief History and a Case Study

Sunday (June 26, 2022)

10:00AM - 10:30AM Nobu Goto (Toyo University) and Toru Ishii (Meiji
University) Resource Restriction-Obedient Search on Merge: A Unified Account
of Movement Phenomena

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Rim Dabbous (Concordia), Marjorie Leduc (Rutgers), David
Ta-Chun Shen (Concordia), and Charles Reiss (Concordia) A minimalist Approach
to Externalization: Adjacency is Opaqueness

11:00AM - 12:00PM David Poeppel (New York University and Max Planck Society)
Title to be Announced.  

12:00PM - 1:00PM Break

1:00PM - 2:00PM Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) Title to be Announced

2:00PM - 3:00PM Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University) Title to be
Announced.

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