Date: 20-Apr-2009
From: Uli Sauerland <uli alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Language and Structural Complexity
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Language and Structural Complexity
Short Title: CHLaSC-Conference
Date: 19-Jun-2009 - 20-Jun-2009
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Uli Sauerland
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/chlasc/meeting.html
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
The conference presents the results of a three year investigation of the role of the structural complexity for understanding language and its effects on human nature funded by the European Union's 'What it means to be human' program. The four different perspectives presented are: (i) cross-species comparison using artificial grammar learning, (ii) cross-linguistic comparison of sentence embedding, (iii) the development of complex language processing in children, and (iv) links between recursive grammar and non-linguistic cognitive abilities. Participation is free, but participants are asked to register by prior email to chlasczas.gwz-berlin.de.
Location:
Center for General Linguistics / Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Trajekte Conference Room, Third Floor
Schützenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
Germany
Program
Friday, June 19th, 2009
09:00 - 10:00
N.N.
10:00 - 10:30
Tecumseh Fitch (St. Andrews): ''Animal Artificial Grammar Learning''
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20
Miguel Oliveira Jr. (St. Andrews): ''Visual AGL: Report from an Experiment with Adults''
11:20 - 11:40
Shilpa Mody (St. Andrews): ''Humans Can Learn A Mildly-Context Sensitive Grammar''
11:40 - 12:00
Gesche Westphal (St. Andrews): ''Visual Search in Individuals Diagnosed with Autism - Effects of Grouping and Hierarchy''
12:00 - 12:30
Commentary panel: N.N. and Greg Kobele (HU Berlin)
12:30 - 02:30
Lunch Break
02:30 - 03:30
Guy Deutscher (Leiden): TBA
03:30 - 03:50
František Kratochvil (La Trobe), Bart Hollebrandse (Groningen) & Uli Sauerland (Berlin): ''Complementation in Teiwa: Clauses as Complementizers''
03:50 - 04:10
Coffee Break
04:10 - 04:30
Mathias Schenner (Berlin): ''Evidentials and Embedding''
04:30 - 04:50
Rainer A. Ludwig (Berlin), Robert Munro (Standford), David Fleck (La Trobe) & Uli Sauerland (Berlin): ''Indexical Shift and Embedding''
04:50 - 05:20
Uli Sauerland (Berlin): ''Recursion in Natural Languages''
05:20 - 05:40
Coffee Break
05:40 - 06:40
Commentary Panel: Guy Deutscher (Leiden) & Marian Klamer (Leiden)
07:30 - 09:30
Conference Dinner
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
09:00 - 10:00
Wendy Sandler (Haifa): TBA
10:00 - 11:00
Tom Fritzsche, Oda Brandt & Barbara Höhle (Potsdam): ''Artificial Grammar Learning across Populations and Modalities''
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
Silvana Poltrock & Barbara Höhle (Potsdam): ''Children's Comprehension of Sentential Complements: Evidence from Eyetracking''
12:00 - 12:30
Commentary Panel: Wendy Sandler (Haifa), Heather van der Lely (London)
12:30 - 02:30
Lunch Break
02:30 - 03:30
Jill de Villiers (Smith): ''Sentences for Thinking''
03:30 - 03:50
Coffee Break
03:50 - 04:50
Bart Hollebrandse, Rika Plat & Angeliek van Hout (Groningen): ''Second Order Comparing Theory of Mind and Language in the Acquisition of Dutch Spoken and Sign Language''
04:50 - 05:10
Coffee Break
05:10 - 05:40
Bart Hollebrandse & Angeliek van Hout (Groningen): ''Second Order Embedding in Non-embedding Languages: Teiwa and Dutch Sign Language''
05:40 - 06:10
Commentary Panel: Jill de Villiers (Smith), Tom Roeper (UMass Amherst)
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