Biolinguistics:
Language Evolution and Variation
Biolinguistics:
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Conference Program [download the program] [download the abstract book]
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| Monday, June 4: |
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Registration |
| 9.30 - 10.00 | Venetian welcome |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (Univ. Arizona) The case of FOXP2 (the so-called language gene) revisited |
| 11.00 - 12.00 | Juan Uriagereka (Univ. Maryland) Why Knots, Finches and More: Extending our Data Base |
| 12.00 - 12.40 | Jean-Rémy Hochmann, Mahan Azadpour, Jacques Mehler
(SISSA, Trieste) Do humans learn artificial center-embedded dependencies? |
| 12.40 - 14.20 | Lunch break |
| 14.20 - 15.20 | Lyle Jenkins (Biolinguistics Institute, Cambridge) The "third factor" in evolution and variation |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | Takashi Toyoshima, Fuminori Mizushima (Kyushu Institute of
Technology) Learnability of recursion in language |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM) Elements of bio-morphological variation |
| 17.30 - 18.10 | Eva Juarros-Daussa (SUNY at Buffalo) Architectural constraints in the lexicon: the three-argument restriction |
| 18.10 - 18.50 | Arhonto Terzi, Evangelia Driva (Technological Educational Institute of
Patras) Children’s passives and the theory of grammar |
| Tuesday, June 5: |
| 9.30 - 10.30 | Giuseppe Longobardi, Chiara Gianollo, Cristina Guardiano (Univ.
Trieste) Towards a history and geography of human syntax |
| 10.30 - 11.10 | Rita Manzini, Leonardo Savoia (Univ. Firenze) (Bio)linguistic diversity |
| 11.10 - 11.40 | Coffee break |
| 11.40 - 12.40 | Luigi Rizzi (Univ. Siena) On delimiting movement |
| 12.40 - 14.20 | Lunch break |
| 14.20 - 15.20 | Cedric Boeckx (Harvard Univ.) Approaching parameters from below |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | Wolfram Hinzen (Univ. Durham) Emergence of a systemic semantics through minimal and underspecified codes |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Kleanthes Grohmann (Univ. Cyprus) Focus on Biolinguistics — Focus in Theoretical Linguistics |
| 17.30 - 18.10 | Réjean Canac-Marquis (Simon Fraser Univ.) A case phase analysis of reconstruction and online Binding |
| 18.10 - 18.50 | Antonia Androutsopoulou, Manuel Espanol-Echevarria (Univ. Laval) Attributive modification and definiteness |
| 18.50 - 19.50 | Alessandra Giorgi (Univ. Venice) Universal Grammar and temporal dependencies |
| Wednesday, June 6: |
| 9.30 - 10.30 | Andrea Moro (Univ. S.Raffaele, Milan) Negation in the brain |
| 10.30 - 11.10 | Julie Legate (Cornell Univ.) On determining the contents of Universal Grammar |
| 11.10 - 11.40 | Coffee break |
| 11.40 - 12.40 | Richard Kayne (NYU) On the limits of computation |
| 12.40 - 14.20 | Lunch break |
| 14.20 - 15.20 | Charles Yang (Univ. Pennsylvania) The Origin and Diffusion of Variations |
| 15.20 - 16.00 | Paolo Chinellato (Univ. Padua, Univ. Venice) New thoughts on Agrammatic Broca’s Aphasia and the structure of the clause |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Coffee break |
| 16.30 - 17.10 | Judit Gervain, Jacques Mehler (SISSA,Trieste) Perceptual primitives in Language Acquisition: Near infrared spectroscopy studies with neonates |
| 17.10 - 17.50 | Erika Marchetto, Luca L. Bonatti (SISSA, Trieste) Learning rules from an artificial speech stream: Early developmental differences |
| 17.50 - 18.50 | Robert Berwick (MIT) All you need is Merge: Biology, computation, and language from the bottom-up |
| 18.50 | Episodic farewell |
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Alternates : Carlo Cecchetto, Costanza Papagno (Univ. Milan-Bicocca) Short term memory as an interface system for syntactic computation Alona Soschen (MIT) Syntactic phases: A biolinguistic approach |