| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Opening
Remarks |
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Calixto Aguero-Bautista, Biolinguistic Investigations Organizing Committee |
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Ambassador Jose Santana, Comision Internacional Asesora en Ciencia y Tecnologia
(CIAT).
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Representative of FUNGLODE |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Invited Talk |
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Ken Wexler, MIT: Lenneberg's Dream.
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:15 |
Section 1 |
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Chair: CalixtoAguero-Bautista |
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Aritz Irurtzun, University of the Basque Country: On the Emergence and Ontology
of Syntactic Labels. |
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Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University (Japan): Language Design in Minimalism: A
Case Study of (Anti)c-command Requirements.
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Hedde H. Zeijlstra, University of Amsterdam: How Revising the Strongest
Minimalist Thesis Constitutes Parametric Variation.
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| 12:15-1:45 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:45-3:15 |
Section 2.
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Chair: Anna Maria Di Sciullo |
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Roberto de Almeida, Mark Hale, Daniela Isac, Charles Reiss (Concordia
University): Epistemological Remarks on Universal Grammar |
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Aniela Improta França, Miriam Lemle, Maurício Cagy, Antonio Fernando Catelli
Infantosi (UFRJ-UFF ): Counting Piglets: Who Cares if Two is Less Than Three? |
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Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown University: Recognition of Binding Theory Locality
Effects at the Cognitive Interface.
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| 3:15-3:30 |
Break |
| 3:30-4:30 |
Invited Talk |
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Richard Larson, Stony Brook University: Phases, Propositions and Thoughts.
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| 4:30-4:45 |
Break |
| 4:45-5:45 |
Invited Talk |
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Karin Stromswold, Rutgers: Genetics and the Structure, Acquisition and Evolution
of Language.
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SATURDAY, February 24. |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Invited Talk |
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Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland: What Kind of Computing Device is the
Human Language Faculty? |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break |
| 10:15-11:45 |
Section 1. |
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Chair: Charles Reiss |
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Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University of Quebec at Montreal: Hierarchical Structure
in Morphological Domains.
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Erez Lieberman, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Joe Jackson, Tina Tang, Martin A Nowak
(Harvard-MIT): Mathematical Evolution of the Irregular Verbs. |
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Dominik Rus, Georgetown University: The Acquisition of Tense and Agreement at
the Interfaces.
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| 11:45-1:15 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:45 |
Section 2.
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Chair: Roberto de Almeida |
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Calixto Aguero-Bautista, University of Quebec at Montreal: Crossover Encounters
of the Third Kind. |
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Brent Henderson, University of Florida: Perception and Linguistic Structure. |
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Ivan Ortega Santos, University of Maryland. On Neural Accommodation and
Relativized Minimality Effects.
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| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-4:00 |
Invited Talk |
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W. Tecumseh Fitch, Saint Andrews University (UK): Hierarchy, Recursion and
Compositionality: Three Faces of Discrete Infinity.
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| 4:00-5:00 |
Poster Section |
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Amrita Basu, University of New Delhi (India): Self Organization Favours Access
and Retrieval Processes: An Investigation Into the Nature of Storage in the
Lexicon. |
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Kamil Ud Deen, University of Hawaii at Manoa: The Case for Biology. |
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Ray C. Dougherty, New York University: Information Theory Defines
"Mathematically Conceivable Communication System" |
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Shantanu Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India): Language
Architecture: The Multiple Neuronal Platform Hypothesis.
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Eric Mathieu, University of Ottawa: Morphological Domains in Ojibwe: Transfer
at the Word Level |
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| 5:00-6:00 |
Invited Talk |
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David Poeppel, University of Maryland: Biolinguistics Needs Neurobiology. |
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SUNDAY, February 25 |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Invited Talk |
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Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona: Rethinking Language
Evolution and the Evolution of Language. |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break |
| 10:15-11:45 |
Section 1 |
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Chair: Calixto Aguero-Bautista |
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Aleria Cavalcante Lage, Miriam Lemle, Maurício Cagy, Antonio Fernando Catelli
Infantosi (UFRJ-UFF ): Granulating the Bottom-up Course of Syntactic Derivation |
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Christina Kim, UCLA: Proccessing Presupposition: What Makes it Hard to Find
Falsifiers for Sentences with 'Only' |
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Acrisio Pires, Heather Taylor (University of Michigan-University of Maryland):
The Syntax of Wh-in-situ and Common Ground: Discourse-Pragmatics and
I-Language. |
| 11:45-1:15 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:15-2:45 |
Section 2 |
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Chair: Anna Maria Di Sciullo |
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Garrett Neske and Ray C. Dougherty, New York University: A
Minimalist Theory of Auditory Interfaces: Why the Larynx Descended. |
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Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro, University of Michigan: Processing Constraints on
PF-movement.
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Marc Richards, University of Leipzig: Three Third-Factors Effects |
| 2:45-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-4:00 |
Invited Talk
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Marc D. Hauser, Harvard University: Evolving Specialized Computations for
Language |
| 4:00-4:15 |
Break |
| 4:15-5:15 |
Invited Talk |
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Noam Chomsky, MIT: To be Announced |
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