12.682, Confs: Workshop on Genetics of Lang/ Tilburg Univ

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Date:  Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:18:42 +0100
From:  C.L.Thiersch at kub.nl
Subject:  Workshop on Genetics of Language/ Tilburg Univ

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Date:  Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:18:42 +0100
From:  C.L.Thiersch at kub.nl
Subject:  Workshop on Genetics of Language/ Tilburg Univ

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


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