Recursion in Human Languages
Daniel L. Everett
dlevere at ilstu.edu
Thu Mar 22 15:47:15 UTC 2007
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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