Recursion in Human Languages, Final Program

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Folks,

The final program for the conference Recursion in Human Languages, the first conference 
on this subject, is attached below. Online registration for the conference  can be done at:  
http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=2390&eventDisp=107recurs&CFID=6447358&CFTOKEN=81329298


Bloomington-Normal airport is a 20 minute flight from O'Hare or Midway airports in 
Chicago and the ISU campus can be reached also by Amtrak (5 times daily) or car (123 
miles) from Chicago.

Dan Everett

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Recursion in Human Languages

Final Schedule

 

0900

Aravind Joshi, Penn: 'Does recursion in language work the same way as in formal systems?'

1000

COFFEE

1015

Hans-Joerg Tiede & Lawrence Stout, Illinois Wesleyan University: 'Recursion, infinity, and modeling'

1050

Arie Verhagen, University of Leiden: 'What do you think is the proper location of recursion? An empirical exploration'

1125

D. Terence Langendoen, National Science Foundation & University of Arizona: 'Are human languages transrecursive?'

1200

Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University: 'Grammar without recursion: implications for evolutionary studies'

1235

LUNCH

1335

Simon Levy, Washington & Lee University: 'Becoming recursive'

1410

Ritva Laury, University of Helsinki, & Tsuyoshi Ono, University of Alberta: 'Recursion in conversation: what speakers of Finnish and Japanese know how to do"

1445

Anna Parker, University of Edinburgh: 'Was recursion the key step in the evolution of the human language faculty?'

1520

COFFEE

1535

Robert Futrelle, Northeastern University: 'Recursion in animal behavior: the origin of recursion in human language'

1610

Amy Perfors, Josh Tennenbaum, Terry Regier, MIT: ' Hierarchical phrase structure and recursion: A Bayesian exploration of learnability'

1645 - 1745

Marianne Mithun, UCSB: A typology of recursion

 

SATURDAY, April 28


0900

Edward Gibson, MIT: Processing Recursive Structures

1000

COFFEE

1015

Jeanette Sakel & Eugenie Stapert, University of Manchester: 'Possible markers of embedding in Pirahã: evidence for recursion?'

1050

Eva Juarros-Daussá, University at Buffalo, SUNY: 'Lack of recursion in the lexicon: the two-argument restriction'

1125

Jan Koster, University of Groningen: 'Recursion and the lexicon'

1200

Fred Karlsson, University of Helsinki: 'Empirically motivated constraints on clausal recursion'

1235

LUNCH

1335

Alec Marantz, New York University: Recursion in Morphology

1435

Yury Lander, Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, & Alexander Letuchiny, Russian State University for the Humanities: 'Kinds of recursion in Adyghe morphology'

1510

Yoad Winter, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study: 'Recursion in the semantics of coordination'

1545

Harry Howard, Tulane University: 'Recursion and the computational modeling of prefrontal cortex'

1620

Bart Hollebrandse, University of Groningen, & Thomas Roeper, University of Massachusetts: 'Recursion and propositional exclusivity'

1655

Michael Wagner, Cornell University: 'Prosody and recursion in coordinate structures and beyond'

1730

COFFEE

1745

Laszlo Hunyadi, University of Debrecen, Hungary: 'Cognitive grouping and prosodic recursion'

1820 - 1920

D. Robert Ladd, Edinburgh: What would 'recursion' mean in phonology?

 

SUNDAY, April 29

 

0900

Daniel L. Everett, ISU: Cultural constraints on recursion

1000

Coffee and snacks

1020

Damir Cavar & Malgorzata E. Cavar, University of Zadar, Croatia: 'Inducing recursion'

1055

Vitor Zimmerer & Rosemary Varley, University of Sheffield: 'Recursive syntax in patients with severe agrammatism'

1130

James Rogers, Earlham College, & Marc Hauser, Harvard University: 'Potential distinguishing characteristics and human aural pattern recognition'

1205

COFFEE

1220

Peter Harder, University of Copenhagen: 'Over the top: recursion as a functional option'

1255

Geoffrey K. Pullum, UCSC: Recursion and the infinitude claim

1355

CONFERENCE ENDS
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