LINGUIST List 21.4497 Tue Nov 09 2010 Calls: Cognitive Science, Psycholinguistics/Spain Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Kleanthes Grohmann , Advances in Biolinguistics Message 1: Advances in Biolinguistics Date: 08-Nov-2010 From: Kleanthes Grohmann <kleanthiucy.ac.cy> Subject: Advances in Biolinguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Advances in Biolinguistics Date: 10-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2010 Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain Contact Person: Kleanthes Grohmann Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics Other Specialty: Biolinguistics Call Deadline: 14-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: Biolinguistics is concerned with exploring the basic properties of the language faculty, how it matures in the individual, how it is put to use in thought and action (including communication), what brain circuits may implement it, and how it emerged in the human species. In asking these questions, biolinguists try to determine which components of the brain are unique to language, as opposed to shared with other cognitive domains such as music and mathematics, and especially those that also seem unique to humans. If, as seems reasonable to suppose, our linguistic capacity is both uniquely human and, in part, uniquely comprised of language-specific mechanisms, significant conceptual and empirical issues arise concerning its evolution, form, maturation, and function. Call For Papers We encourage submissions of abstracts that touch on any of the issues listed above, or any other that contributes to our understanding of the biological foundations of the language faculty. Of special interest are contributions that bring biological considerations to bear on linguistic theorizing. The Biolinguistic Capacity is a workshop intended for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (http://sle2011.cilap.es). Since we will need to submit a proposal with a preliminary list of speakers by November 15, we need preliminary titles and mini-abstracts (3-5 sentences) from potentially interested participants. The deadline for these is Sunday, November 14, 2010. Please note that expressing an interest in participation by sending us a title and mini-abstract is not binding. The final deadline for regular abstracts, to be submitted via the conference site, is January 15, 2011. We will send interested participants a reminder about this, and we will of course also let them know, by mid-December, whether the workshop was accepted. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Nov-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.