LINGUIST List 13.2613

Sat Oct 12 2002

Confs: Blackwell/Maryland Lectures:Lang & Cognition

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Scott Fults, The 2002 Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language & Cognition

The Linguistics Department at the University of Maryland-College Park is
happy to announce this year's Balckwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and
Cognition:

Three Lectures by Lila Gleitman
Novemeber 13 - 15, 2002
University of Maryland at College Park

Nov 13, 2:00 - 5:00pm
	"Does the language we speak affect the way we think?"

Nov 14, 9:00am - 12:00pm
	"Building a first vocabulary: Are children different from adults?"

Nov 15, 10:00am - 1:00pm
	"Faux modularity in language learning: Epiphany and other learning
	processes."


All lectures will be held in the Maryland Room of Marie Mount Hall on the
College Park campus.

The Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language & Cognition presents the
best of contemporary research and debate on language and its ties with
cognitive science. These lectures, sponsored by Blackwell Publishing,
are delivered every year at the University of Maryland at College
Park.

For more information please call the UMCP Linguistics Department at
301-405-7002, or email nh10umail.umd.edu.

For directions on how to get to the linguistics department in College
Park, please visit our website: http://www.ling.umd.edu.