[EDLING:968] Symposium: Prerequisites to Language in Animal Cognition

[Francis M Hult]

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>           Second Annual Society for Language Development Symposium
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>                         Thursday November 3, 2005
>                  George Sherman Union, Boston University
>      Preceding the Boston University Conference on Language Development
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>               http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html
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> The Society for Language Development is pleased to announce this year's topic:
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>           **   Prerequisites to Language in Animal Cognition  **
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> Invited Speakers: 
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>  * Marc D. Hauser, Harvard University
>     The Evolution of the Language Faculty: Semantics, Syntax, and Interfaces
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>  * Timothy Gentner, UCSD
>     Recursive Syntactic Pattern Learning in Songbirds
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>  * Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
>     Why Apes Don't Point: Social-Cognitive Precursors to Language
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> To pre-register for the symposium, as well as the BU Conference on
> Language Development, go to
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>         http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm
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> Sponsored by: 
>   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
>   Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester 
>   Dept of Psychology, University of Chicago
>   Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona 
>   Language and Communication Sciences Program, University of Pennsylvania 
>   BU Conference on Language Development, Boston University 
>   and others.
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