24.1810, Confs: Cognitive Science, Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 24.1810, Confs: Cognitive Science, Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:09:25
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo [di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca]
Subject: Workshop: Advances in Biolinguistics

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Workshop: Advances in Biolinguistics 

Date: 25-Jul-2013 - 26-Jul-2013 
Location: Geneva, Switzerland 
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo 
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca 
Meeting URL: http://www.cil19.org/ateliers/advances-in-biolinguistics/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Typology 

Other Specialty: Biolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop focuses on advances on the understanding of the biological basis of language (Lenneberg 1967, Jenkins 2000, 2004, Chomsky 2002, 2005, 2011, Piattelli-Palmarini et al. 2009, Larson et al 2010, Di Sciullo et al. 2010, Di Sciullo and Boeckx 2011). The workshop invites discussion where specific biolinguistic hypotheses are substantiated by theoretical linguistics evidence, empirical data and biological/natural world evidence. The workshop includes the following thematic sessions:

1. Language and biology
2. Language typology and language universals
3. The effects of natural laws

Session 1 Language and biology, addresses the question of how studies in language and genetics, language and the brain contribute to our understanding of the nature of syntax, morphology, the lexicon, and their interfaces with the other cognitive systems. 

Session 2 Language typology and language universals, considers how biolinguistic studies on language evolution and variation shed new light on language typology, and the study of language universals. The questions raised in this session are the following: how is variation and change in the natural world related to language variation and change, and how the biolinguistic perspective may lead to new approaches to language typology and universals. 

Session 3 The effects of natural laws, discusses recent proposals on the effect of natural laws, such as prominence, symmetry breaking, reaction-diffusion, preservation of shape etc. on language derivations and representations, on language variation and evolution, and on language acquisition. How do these laws interact with natural language?

A special session on language and mathematics targets the configurational and semantic properties of complex numerals and the acquisition of numbers. The central questions asked in this special session bare on the emergence of language and the development of complex numerals in the individual as well as the nature of the relations between language and mathematics. 

Preliminary Program, July 25-26, 2013

July 25

Section 1:  Language and biology 
Angela Friederici, Max Plank Institute (Invited Speaker)
Syntax and prosody in the human brain   

Evie Malaia, University of Texas at Arlington, Josua Borneman, Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue University   
Bioinformatic properties of sign language motion: Fractal complexity of optical flow 

Discussion 

Lluis Barcelo-Coblijn, Universitat de les Illes Balears Antonio Benitez-Burraco, University of Huelva, Cedric Boeckx, ICREA 
Variation, speciation, and the development of Sapiens’ language ready brain

Antonio Benitez-Burraco, University of Huelva
Since the linguistic genotype has proven to be (highly) polymorphic, should we expect a variable Faculty Language?

Discussion 

Section 2: Language typology and language universals 
Giuseppe Longobardi, York University (Invited Speaker)
Towards Historical Biolinguistics

Joao Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 
The Robustness of language development: the role of cross population and cross linguistic studies

Discussion 

Section 3: Effects of natural Laws
Lyle Jenkins, Boston Biolinguistic Institute (Invited Speaker)
Natural laws and biolinguistics 

Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Marco Nicolis, Stanca Somesfalean, UQAM  
Evo-devo language Universals and whether Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny

Discussion 

July 26

Special session on Language and mathematics
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, A.M., UQAM  
The great lead forward and the emergence of complex numerals

Akira Watanabe, University of Tokyo 
Mental representation of natural numbers and acquisition of numerals

Koji Arikawa, St. Andrew’s University 
Variable elimination in Language system and Mathematics

Discussion

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