The Language Design
UQAM, May 27-29, 2010
The Language Design
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Conference Program [download the program] [download the abstract book]
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| Thursday, May 27: |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM Robert Proulx, Vice Rector, UQAM Anne Rochette, Dean, UQAM Welcome |
Language evolution and variation |
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| 9:30 - 10:15 | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona at Tucson: Language design and evolution in a new perspective |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Giuseppe Longobardi, University of Trieste: How to probe history with grammar |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
Phylogeny, patterns of variance in the natural world |
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| 11:15 - 12:00 | Richard Palmer, University of Alberta: Learning, developmental plasticity and the evolution of morphological asymmetries in animals |
| Lunch break |
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Language design, patterns and complexity |
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| 14:00 - 14:45 | Lyle Jenkins, Boston Biolinguistics Institute: Emergence of complexity in design the case of symmetry |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Anna Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM: Asymmetry in language design, a biolinguistic perspective |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Boris Steipe, University of Toronto: Distribution and role of patterns in protein structure |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Brief meeting of the Biolinguistics Network |
| Friday, May 28: |
Faculty of Language in the narrow sense |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 | Cedric Boeckx, ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: How the language organ self-organizes |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Dana Isac, Concordia University: An exercise in syntactic (de)composition |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University: On the labeling algorithm and its alleged exceptions |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Christiana Christodoulou & Martina Wiltschko, UBC: Function without content. Evidence from Greek subjunctive na |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | John Lumsden, UQAM: Binary branching |
| Lunch break |
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Faculty of Language in the broad sense |
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| 14:00 - 14:45 | Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, College Park: A surprising consequence of single cycle syntax |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Peggy Speas, UMASS Amherst: The Minimal Structure of the Left Periphery |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | James Higginbotham, USC: Pronominal Perspectives |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham: Parts and wholes in syntax |
| 17:15 - 18:30 | Poster session* |
| 18:30 - 19:15 | Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland, College Park: I-Languages and conceptual reanalysis |
| 19:15 - 20:00 | Roberto De Almeida, Concordia University: Where do coercion effects come from? |
| Saturday, May 29: |
| 9:00 - 9:45 | William Idsardi, University of Maryland, College Park: Language design and the syntax-phonology interface |
| 9:45 - 10:30 | Charles Reiss, Concordia University: Phonology is as recursive as syntax |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
Processing, computation |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 | Evie Malaia & Ronnie B.Wilbur, Purdue University: Experimental evidence from sign language for a phonology-syntax-semantic interface |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona at Tucson & Jason Ginsburg, Aizu University: Doubling constituents: Pronouns and antecedents in Phase Theory |
| Lunch break |
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Development and variation |
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| 13:30 - 14:15 | Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Institute: Culture in the Zebrafinch as a multigenerational phenotype |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Kleanthes Grohmann, University of Cyprus: The dialect design: Socio-syntax of development and the grammar of Cypriot Greek |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Tom Roeper, UMASS, Amherst: Innate grammar and efficient acquisition |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Calixto Aguero Bautista, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo: Non-native acquisition from a biolinguistic perspective [download the handout] |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Ken Wexler, MIT: Linguistic design and development |
| Concluding remarks |
Poster session |
| Sergio Balari, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Universidad de Huelva, Víctor M. Longa, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela & Guillermo Lorenzo, Universidad de Oviedo: Fossils of language: What if we were looking in the wrong places? |
| Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Universidad de Huelva: 'Language genes': They exist and we have them, but what do we really use them for? |
| Shishir Bhattacharja, University of Dhaka: On the so-called post-syntactic compounds in Japanese |
| Alex Drummond, University of Maryland, College Park: Constraints on sideward movement |
| Atsushi Fujimori, UBC: The patterns of associating sounds with meanings: the case of telicity |
| Thomas Graf, University of California, Los Angeles: Concealed reference-set computation or how syntax escapes the parser's clutches |
| Tim Hunter, University of Maryland, College Park: Syntactic effects of conjunctivist interpretation |
| Monica Irimia, University of Toronto: Explaining variation in resultative secondary predicates |
| Stefanie Röhrig, University of Mainz: The acquisition of scalar implicatures |
| Bridget Samuels, University of Maryland, College Park: Phonological forms: from ferrets to fingers |
| Miyuki Sawada, National Kaohsiung Normal University: The syntax and semantics of compound sentences |
| Jeffrey Watumull, University of Cambridge: Merge as a minimax solution to the optimization problem of generality |