19.545, Confs: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 16-Feb-2008
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo < di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca >
Subject: International Network in Biolinguistics First Meeting

 

	
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Subject: International Network in Biolinguistics First Meeting 
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International Network in Biolinguistics First Meeting 
Short Title: INB 

Date: 23-Feb-2008 - 24-Feb-2008 
Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA 
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo 
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca 
Meeting URL: http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The international network in biolinguistics aims to foster research on the
biological basis of the language faculty, linking theoretical linguistics,
developmental psychology, evolutionary biology and  psychology, molecular
biology, genetics, and physics. 

The programmatic sessions of this first organisational meeting set the minimal
architecture of this network, including possible websites, journals, summer
schools, and permanent centers. The open sessions of the meeting consist of
presentations and discussions of ongoing works in the field. 

The presentations aim to explore further the factors that according to Chomsky
(2004, 2006, 2007) contribute to the growth of language in the individual, the
genetic endowment, experience, and language-independent principles of efficient
computation. 

This meeting is organized by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Massimo
Piattelli-Palmarini. It is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, and the
University of Arizona, Tucson. 

Saturday, February 23rd 
Room 311 Communication Building

First Session: FLB

10:00- 10:30	
M. Hauser and A. Endress (HU), General Perceptual Constraints on Language
Structure: Evolutionary Primitives

10:30- 11:00    
T. Bever (UA), (with Shiaohui Chan, PhD, and Roeland Hancock) 
Individual cerebral differences in language representation and learning

11:00- 11:30	
Break

11:30- 12:00	
K. Stromswold (RU), The ''Critical Period'' in Language Acquisition:  What Is
It, What Causes It, and Why Does It Exist?

12:00- 12:30    
K. Wexler (MIT), Developing Phases, Verbal, Resultant State and Target State
Passives, Inverse Copulas, Clefts: the Interaction of Brilliant Plasticity and
Genetically Guided Principles

12:30-2:00 	
Lunch break

Second Session: Genes

Room 311 Communication Building

2:00-2:30	
L. Jenkins (Biolinguistics Institute, Cambridge), Biolinguistics: From Genes to
Phenotype

2:30-3:00	
R. Berwick, (MIT), Some Simple Biolinguistic Experiments Regarding FOXP2: How
Might We Extend the Domain of Evidence?

3:00-3:30	
Break

3:30-4:00	
M. Piattelli-Palmarini (UA), and Juan Uriagereka (UM) Spellbound: The Birds

4:00-4:30      
R. Berwick (MIT), Signal to Noise: Why Detecting Natural Selection could be
Impossible

Sunday, February 24th 
Room 311 Communication Building
 
Third Session: FL to FLB

10:00-10:30	
A.M. Di Sciullo (UQAM), Exploring Asymmetry Effects from a Biolinguistic
Perspective 

10:30-11:00	
C. Boeckx (HU), Approaching FL from Below

11:00-11:30	
Lisa Cheng (Leiden University), Mapping in the Interfaces: Syntax-Phonology
(Mis)matches

11:30-12:00	
Break

12:00-12:30	
E. van Gelderen (ASU), Economy as a Third Factor

12:30-13:00	
H. Harley & A. Wedel (UAT), Temporal vs. Constituent Structure Effects in Processing
  
13:00-13:30	
J. McGilvray (McGill), The Biolinguistics of Linguistically Expressed Concepts

End

Further information about the meeting will be posted shortly at
www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca






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