22.3060, Confs: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/U.K.

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Date: 01-Aug-2011
From: Matthew Reeve [m.reeve at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics
 

	
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Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:09:05
From: Matthew Reeve [m.reeve at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics

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Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics 

Date: 05-Sep-2011 - 05-Sep-2011 
Location: Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom 
Contact: Glyn Hicks 
Contact Email: Glyn.Hicks at soton.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/gh1w07/complexity.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Complex Systems in Linguistics is an interdisciplinary workshop that aims to bring together researchers working with various conceptions of complexity in the study of language. In particular, the workshop organisers aim to explore the different ways in which concepts from complexity science may bear upon linguistic theories, and to reach out to researchers within complex systems more generally. Relevant areas of linguistics might include (but are by no means restricted to): language change; language evolution; the architecture of the language faculty; language acquisition; language learning.

Invited Speakers: 
Cedric Boeckx (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan)
Philip Herdina (Universität Innsbruck) 

09.00-09.45
Registration and coffee 

09:45-10:00
Opening remarks 

10.00-10.50 
Invited speaker:  
Cedric Boeckx (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/Universitat  Autònoma de Barcelona)  
Syntax Santa Fe Style 

10.50-11.30
Leah Bauke (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main) 
How Complex is Merge? 

11.30-11.50
Coffee break 

11.50-12.30
Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University)  
Deconstructing FLN 

12.30-13.10
Lluís Barceló i Coblijn & Antoni Gomila (Universitat de las Illes  Balears) 
Syntactic Development at 25 Months: A Critical Phase Transition of Grammatical Rule Induction 

13.10-14.30
 Lunch 

14.30
Invited Session: Complexity Theory:  A Promising Research Programme for Language and Language Learning

14:30-15.10
Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) 
Complexity Theory: Opening new spaces  

15.10-15:50
Philip Herdina (Universität Innsbruck) 
What Complexity Theory Can do for Language Research  

16.10-16:30
Coffee break 

16.30-17.10
Glyn Hicks & Matthew Reeve (University of Southampton) 
Complexity and/or Minimalism(?) 

17.10-17.50
David Medeiros (University of Arizona) 
X-bar Structure and the Golden String 

17:50-18:00
Concluding remarks 
Evening Dinner (details TBC)








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