LINGUIST List 22.3060 Mon Aug 01 2011 Confs: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theories, Syntax/U.K. Editor for this issue: Zac Smith <zaclinguistlist.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.     Matthew Reeve , Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics Message 1: Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics Date: 01-Aug-2011 From: Matthew Reeve <m.reeveucl.ac.uk> Subject: Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics Date: 05-Sep-2011 - 05-Sep-2011 Location: Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom Contact: Glyn Hicks Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/gh1w07/complexity.html Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Syntax Meeting Description: Complex Systems in Linguistics is an interdisciplinary workshop that aims to bring together researchers working with various conceptions of complexity in the study of language. In particular, the workshop organisers aim to explore the different ways in which concepts from complexity science may bear upon linguistic theories, and to reach out to researchers within complex systems more generally. Relevant areas of linguistics might include (but are by no means restricted to): language change; language evolution; the architecture of the language faculty; language acquisition; language learning. Invited Speakers: Cedric Boeckx (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) Philip Herdina (Universität Innsbruck) 09.00-09.45 Registration and coffee 09:45-10:00 Opening remarks 10.00-10.50 Invited speaker: Cedric Boeckx (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Syntax Santa Fe Style 10.50-11.30 Leah Bauke (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main) How Complex is Merge? 11.30-11.50 Coffee break 11.50-12.30 Tommi Leung (United Arab Emirates University) Deconstructing FLN 12.30-13.10 Lluís Barceló i Coblijn & Antoni Gomila (Universitat de las Illes Balears) Syntactic Development at 25 Months: A Critical Phase Transition of Grammatical Rule Induction 13.10-14.30 Lunch 14.30 Invited Session: Complexity Theory: A Promising Research Programme for Language and Language Learning 14:30-15.10 Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) Complexity Theory: Opening new spaces 15.10-15:50 Philip Herdina (Universität Innsbruck) What Complexity Theory Can do for Language Research 16.10-16:30 Coffee break 16.30-17.10 Glyn Hicks & Matthew Reeve (University of Southampton) Complexity and/or Minimalism(?) 17.10-17.50 David Medeiros (University of Arizona) X-bar Structure and the Golden String 17:50-18:00 Concluding remarks Evening Dinner (details TBC) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Aug-2011       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.