Recursion conference

[Daniel L. Everett]

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