19.1694, Confs: Language Acquisition/UK

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Date: 27-May-2008
From: Koji Kawahara < kk512 at york.ac.uk >
Subject: Biolinguistics: Acquisition and Language Evolution

 

	
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Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:06:36
From: Koji Kawahara [kk512 at york.ac.uk]
Subject: Biolinguistics: Acquisition and Language Evolution 
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Biolinguistics: Acquisition and Language Evolution 

Date: 02-Jul-2008 - 04-Jul-2008 
Location: York, United Kingdom 
Contact: Koji Kawahara 
Contact Email: lang504 at york.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/conferences/bale2008/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition 

Other Specialty: Biolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Conference on biological aspects of human language with specific focus on
language acquisition and language evolution, Department of Language and
Linguistic Science, University of York 

Wednesday 3 July

17:30-19:00 
Registration and Wine Reception

19:00-20:00 
James Hurford (Edinburgh) The Origins of Meaning

Thursday 4 July

9:00: 
Simon Kirby (Edinburgh) TBA

10:00: 
Dennis Ott (Harvard) The Evolution of I-language: What Do We Know?

10:30-11:00: 
Tea and Coffee Break

11:00: 
Anna Kinsella (Edinburgh) Biolinguistics and the Constraint of Evolution on
Linguistic Theorising

11:30: 
Fiorien Bonthuis (Cambridge) Biolinguistics and Rule-following

12:00: 
Koji Kawahara (York) The Irrelevance of Natural Selection in Language Change

12:30-14:00: 
Lunch

14:00: 
Jeffrey K. Parrott (Copenhagen) Vestigial Case and the Acquisition of Vocabulary
in Distributed Morphology

14:30: 
Yi-An Lin (Cambridge) The Syntactic Acquisition of English-speaking Children
with Specific Language Impairment: A Corpus-based Study

16:00-16.30: 
Tea and Coffee Break

16:30-17:30: 
Juan Uriagereka (Maryland) Recursion Redux

19:00-late: 
Conference Dinner

Friday 4 July

10:00: 
Bridget Samuels (Harvard) The Third Factor in Phonology

10:30: 
Robert Truswell (Tufts) Constituency Deficits in Bonobo Comprehension of Spoken
English

11:00-11:30: 
Tea and Coffee Break

11:30: 
Takashi Nakajima (Toyama) Negation Paradox and Logical Nativism

12:00: 
George Tsoulas (York) On The Biolinguistics of Truth

12:30: 
Martin Edwardes The Metaphor, 'The Group is an Entity', and the Origins of Language

13:00: 
Monica Irimia (Toronto) Trying to Grasp Indirect Evidentiality

13:00-14:00: 
Lunch

14:00: 
Hiroki Narita (Harvard) Reverse-engineering Labels

14:30: 
Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State) Sex and Syntax: Subjacency Revisited

15:00: 
Anna Martowicz (Edinburgh) Does Population Size Determine Language Complexity?

15:30: 
Carl Ehrett (Northwestern) Can Comparative Pattern Recognition Studies Inform Us
about Language Evolution?

15:30-16:00: 
Tea and Coffee Break

16:00-17:00: 
Koji Fujita (Kyoto) Recursion, Modularity, and the Evo-Devo of Language

19:00- late: 
Ghost Walk in York City Centre







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