summer school * linguistics * San Sebastian

Wed Jun 2 11:59:50 UTC 2010

*Summer Course at the University of the Basque Country*-

*/Understanding language: forty years down the garden path/*

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*Directors: *

*Itziar Laka (*/University of the Basque Country. UPV/EHU)/

*Montserrat Sanz (*/Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Japan)/

*Pello Salaburu*/ (University of the Basque Country)/

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the information about the gathering at the Basque Country that will take place from June 28th to July 1st, 2010 in San Sebastián (Spain). This 40-hour course offers the possibility of listening to and interacting with an outstanding panel of speakers, representative of the frontier in language research within Cognitive Science. It is also a commemoration of the 40 years since the publication in 1970 of "The Cognitive Bases for Linguistic Structures" by Thomas G. Bever, a precursor of many of the topics that are today known as Biolinguistics. Also in that paper, the famous example "The horse raced past the barn fell" was first proposed to illustrate some phenomena concerning language processing.

We would like to encourage students to attend. There are some scholarships available for students, which cover registration fees and housing. The deadline for application has been extended. Please urge your students to come to Spain and enjoy the unique opportunity to see so many bright and influential people debating together and to ask them questions.

The information about summer courses at San Sebastián can be found in:

http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/2010/ipresentation.html

About grants:

http://www.sc.ehu.es/scrwwwsu/2010/igrants.html

For more information please contact either Edurne Petrirena or cursosverano at sc.ehu.es <mailto:cursosverano at sc.ehu.es>

Looking forward to seeing you in San Sebastián, we send you our best wishes,

Itziar Laka

Montserrat Sanz

Pello Salaburu

June 28/July 1st* Understanding language: forty years down the garden path (C) *

*Directors: *

*Itziar Laka. *

/University of the Basque Country. UPV/EHU. /

*Montserrat Sanz. *

/Kobe University of Foreign Studies. Japan. /

*Pello Salaburu*

/Univerity of the Basque Country/.

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*Aims: *The famous garden path sentence /the horse raced past the barn fell/ turns 40 years since it was

published in the seminal paper "The Cognitive Bases of Linguistic Structures" by Thomas G.

Bever, one of the founders of the field of language processing. Language is the focus of some

of the major scientific issues in cognitive science, such as the interaction between associative

habits and structured mental computations, or a productive rapport between innatist approaches

and biological and functional approaches. This meeting brings together some of the most

outstanding researchers in the field, to discuss current frontiers in our understanding of

language within cognitive science, to assess the progress made during these four decades

of research in language processing and to pose questions for the next generation of studies.

*Speakers: *

Gerry Altman, University of York

Bob Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thomas G. Bever, University of Arizona

Ina Bornkessel, University of Marburg

Manuel Carreiras, BCBL-Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language

Gary Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology-University of Ferrara

Charles Lin, Indiana University

Yosef Grodzinsky, Mc Guill University

Sonia Kotz, Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Maryellen MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jacques Mehler, SISSA-ISAS CNS, Trieste

Colin Phillips, University of Maryland

Douglass Saddy, University of Reading

Edward P. Stabler, UCLA

Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

Massimo Piatteli-Palmarini, University of Arizona

*In collaboration with Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. *

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/Registration fees: before 31 May: 90 €. From 1 June: 108 €. /

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/Academic validity: 40 hours. /

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Official language: English.

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*PROGRAM*

*UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE: *

*FORTY YEARS DOWN THE GARDEN PATH*

MONDAY, JUNE 28th

9:00 Welcome and Presentation: Itziar Laka and Montserrat Sanz

9:15-10:00 Mike Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

Introduction to the course. On the Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures: Themes that have endured.

*SESSION 1. THE CROSSLINGUISTIC BRAIN AND LANGUAGE*

*Chair of the session: Itziar Laka*

10:00-11:00 Jacques Mehler SISSA-ISAS CNS, Trieste

Languages in the infant brain

11:00-12:00 Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Brain, Cognition and Language

Mechanisms of Agreement

12:00-12:30 BREAK

12:30-13:30 Ina Bornkessel, University of Marburg, Germany

Neurotypology: Modelling cross-linguistic similarities and differences in the neurocognition of language comprehension

13:30-14:30 Yosef Grodzinsky McGuill University

Changing perspectives on the functional role of some language regions in the brain

14:30-16:30 LUNCH

16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION:

The Crosslinguistic Brain and Language

_Theme discussant_: Douglass Saddy

_Participants_: Tanenhaus, Mehler, Carreiras, Grodzinsky

_JUNE 29th, TUESDAY_

*SESSION 2. THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE *

*AND LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS*

*Chair of the session: Pello Salaburu, University of the Basque Country*

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10:00-11:00 Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, University of Arizona

Comprehension, production and linearization in a new evolutionary perspective

11:00-12:00 Robert Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Three Models for the Description of Language Complexity

12:00-12:30 BREAK

12:30-13:30 Douglass Saddy, University of Reading

Measuring language universals in the brain

13:30-14:30 Thomas Bever, University of Arizona

Where do Linguistic Universals come from?

14:30-16:30 LUNCH

16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION: The Evolution of Language and Language Universals

_Theme discussant_: Colin Phillips

_Participants_: Piatelli-Palmarini, Berwick, Saddy, Stabler and Bever.

_JUNE 30th, WEDNESDAY_

*SESSION 3. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION *

*AND PERCEPTION*

*Chair of the session: José Manuel Igoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid*

9:00:10:00 Maryellen C. MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Production Basis of Language Comprehension: Evidence from Relative Clauses

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10:00-11:00 Gary Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Implicit learning in the language production system is revealed in speech errors

11:00-12:00 Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology, U. Ferrara

>From Action to Language: Evidence and Speculations

12:00-12:30 BREAK

12:30-13:30 William Idsardi, University of Maryland

Statistical generalizations in language behaviors

13:30-14:30 Charles Lin, Indiana University.

Down the head-final garden path: Understanding the processing asymmetries of head-final relative clauses

14:30-16:30 LUNCH

16:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE, GENERAL DISCUSSION:

The Relations between Language Production and Perception

_Theme discussant_: Thomas Bever

_Participants:_ MacDonald, Dell, Fadiga, Idsardi, Lin

JULY 1st, THURSDAY

*SESSION 4. THE GARDEN PATH TODAY – COMPREHENSION MODELS*

*Chair of the Session: Montserrat Sanz*

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9:00-10:00 Sonia Kotz, Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Syntactic ambiguities: from linguistic structure to brain correlates

10:00-11:00 Gerry Altmann, University of York

Anticipating the garden path: the horse raced past the barn ate the cake

11:00-12:00 Michael Tanenhaus University of Rochester

Real time ambiguity resolution in interactive conversation

12:00-12:30 BREAK

12:30-13:30 Edward Stabler UCLA

Syntax, semantics and pragmatics in incremental interpretation

13:30-14:30 Colin Phillips, University of Maryland

Grammatical Illusions: Where you see them, where you don't

14:30-16:30 LUNCH

16:30:17:30 ROUND TABLE AND GENERAL DISCUSSION:

The Garden Path Today- Comprehension Models

_Theme discussant_: Yosef Grodzinsky

_Participants_: Kotz, Tanenhaus, Altmann, Stabler, Phillips

17:30-18:30 CONCLUSIONS AND PREDICTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH:

Thomas Bever University of Arizona

Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona

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