The Genetics of Language Workshop

[Kelley Sacco]

The Genetics of Language

The Linguistcs Dept. of Tilburg University is proud to announce a week of
seminars and workshops devoted to the Genetics of Language:
*****May 28 - June *****

1. There will be a series of lectures and forum discussions on Wednesday
and Thursday, preceded by a two day seminar "Neurolinguistics" given by
Prof. Alec Marantz (Linguistics & Philosophy, M.I.T.), and followed by a
one day seminar "Language and the Brain" given by Prof. Laurence B. Leonard
(Audiology & Speech Sciences, Purdue).

Website: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/genconf


The sections and speakers are:
* Language & cognitive neuroscience
Sergey Avrutin (UiL-OTS, Utrecht Univ.)
Alfonso Caramazza (Psychology, Harvard)
Peter Hagoort (Nijmegen Inst. for Cognition and Information)
Colin Phillips (Linguistics, U. of Maryland)
Discussant: Bea de Gelder (Social & Behavioural Sciences, U. Tilburg)

* Selective impairment of language and cognition
Yosef Grodzinsky (Psychology, U. Tel Aviv University & Neurology, Boston
Univ. School of Medicine)
Heather van der Lely (Human Communication Science, University College,
London)
Laurence B. Leonard (Audiology & Speech Sciences, Purdue)
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Development Cognitive Neuroscience,
UniversityCollege, London)
Discussant: Hubert Haider (Inst. fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Univ. Salzburg)

* Origins of language & its diversification
Isabelle Dupanloup (Dipartimento di Biologia, Univ. di Ferrara)
Riny Huybregts (Models of Grammar Group, U. Tilburg)
Marta M. Lahr & Robert Foley (Biological Anthropology, Univ. of Cambridge)
Johanna Nichols (Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley)
Discussant: David Gil (Max Planck Inst. fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie,
Leipzig)

* Mind/brain: the unification problem
Lyle Jenkins (Biolinguistics Institute, Cambridge, MA)
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Cognitive Science Program, U. Arizona)
Discussant: Michael Brody (Phonetics and Linguistics, University College,
London)

* Forum Discussion
Neil V. Smith (Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London)

Further details, including abstracts and an an on-line registration form,
can be found at our web site: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/gm/genconf