33.1622, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1622. Mon May 09 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1622, Confs: General Linguistics/Canada

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 22:05:58
From: Angelika Bacher [Angelika.Bacher at uqtr.ca]
Subject: First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

 
First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières 
Short Title: BioLing1 

Date: 24-Jun-2022 - 26-Jun-2022 
Location: Quebec, Canada 
Contact: Angelika Bacher 
Contact Email: bioling393 at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Theme: Meeting the Conditions of Learnability and Evolvability.

Invited Speakers

CALIXTO AGÜERO-BAUTISTA (UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES) 
SANDIWAY FONG (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
WOLFRAM HINZEN (POMPEU FABRA UNIVERSITY) 
NORBERT HORNSTEIN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
RICHARD LARSON (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK)
HOWARD LASNIK (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
SHIGERU MIYAGAWA (MIT)
MASSIMO PIATELLI PALMARINI (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
DAVID POEPPEL (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY/MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL
AESTHETICS)
KARIN STROMSWOLD (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)

Chomsky (2019) notes that the human, species-specific faculty of language
(FL), must meet “competing” conditions of learnability and evolvability. FL
must be rich enough to allow a child to acquire a language from the scattered
and limited data made available in the differing expressions of typologically
differing languages. FL must also be “simple enough so that it could have
evolved.” Chomsky offers these dual conditions as “conditions for a genuine
explanation” asserting that any proposal failing to meet them will fall short
of “actually explaining things, even if the given proposal might be valuable
in ‘organizing data in an interesting way’.”

>From the perspective of the Minimalist Program (MP), arguably the best way for
the FL to meet the empirical conditions of learnability and evolvability is
for its architecture to have the simplest possible structure, for example,
along the lines conjectured by Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002), Chomsky
(2016), Berwick and Chomsky (2016), and Chomsky (2019).   

The BioLing research project of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is
hosting its first conference on biolinguistics to explore possible ways of
meeting the aforementioned conditions. The conference will be online due to
the emergence of the Omicron variant of the COVID19 virus.
 






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