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umbc.edu>PLEASE POST AND/OR FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO LISTS OR INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED The 1996 Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society July 11-15, 1996 You are invited to attend the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society. The meeting will begin at approximately 1:00 p.m. on July 11 and end at approximately 1:00 p.m. on July 15 at UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County). The five day program will include papers on all aspects of the origins and evolution of spoken, written, and signed languages. What we know about evolutionary, developmental, social, and linguistic processes places severe constraints upon plausible scenarios for the origins and evolution of language, and several papers will be explicitly concerned with defining these constraints. As in past LOS meetings and consistent with its multidisciplinary character, a broad range of disciplines will be represented. The program is co-sponsored by UMBC and by the following UMBC academic departments: Ancient Studies, Biology, English, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Modern Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology and Anthropology. A keynote lecture in honor of the late Jan Wind, founder of the LOS, will be presented by Stevan Harnad, editor of the journal, BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, and co-editor, with Steklis and Lancaster, of the seminal volume, "Origins and evolution of language and speech" (ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, No. 280, 1976). Robert R. Provine of the UMBC Department of Psychology will speak on laughter as an approach to the mechanisms and evolution of vocal production, perception and social behavior, following upon work presented in AMERICAN SCIENTIST (1996, Vol. 84, 38-45). Preliminary Program Jan Wind Memorial Lecture: From praxis to pantomime to propositions: Communicative continuum or cognitive hurtles? Stevan Harnad (Southampton, UK) Invited Lecture: Laughter in humans and chimpanzees: Insights into language evolution Robert Provine (Baltimore, MD, USA) The role of language - Robin Allott (Seaford, E. Sussex, UK) Three branches of the Cro-Magnon protolanguage - Nicholas D. Andreyev (St. Petersburg, Russia) The complexity criterion in linguistics - Bernard H. Bichakjian (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Language as an evolutionary product of cognition - Angelo Cangelosi (Genoa, Italy) and Domenico Parisi (Rome, Italy) A systematic language and notation for the natural sciences: An emerging hypothesis - Jerry L. R. Chandler (Bethesda, MD, USA) Right-left cerebral asymmetry: Innateness, experience, adaptation - Tatiana V. Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg, Russia) A possible "ideal structure" in Latin, Old Irish, & Old English - Robert Payson Creed (Amherst, MA, USA) Ontogenetic integration of the affective and linguistic components of speech: Cerebral dominance inversion as a cause of speech pathology - Elena S. Dmitrieva and Kira A. Zaitseva (St. Petersburg, Russia) The communication rubicon: Signal to symbol - Mary LeCron Foster (Berkeley, CA, USA) Comparative semantics - Robert Davy Green (Punaauia, Tahiti, French Polynesia) Some methodological problems in linguistic taxonomy and reconstructions - Eric de Grolier (Paris, France) On irrational rationalism - G bor Gyri (Pecs, Hungary) Is Wittgenstein's private language argument relevant to theories of the origin of language? - Roger Harris (London, UK) Language capacities ca 40,000-27,000 BP - Gordon Hewes (Boulder, CO, USA) Natural selection and language origins - Harry J. Jerison (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Social networks and the emergence of overt distinctions - Christer Johansson (Lund, Sweden) The evolution of language: Some problems in cross-disciplinary analysis - Michael W. Katzko (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Dialectical difference in Arabic word order - Chad D. Nilep (Tempe, AZ, USA) Possible social motor activities of Homo Erectus - Stedman B. Noble (Washington, DC, USA) Saussure's Precipitate Principle I and an ameliorative amendment - Julius Nyikos (Washington, PA, USA) The legacy of Herder in Heidegger's language origin theory - Achim Oberst (Montreal, Canada) An "acoustic-signature" model of early speech evolution - Michael J. Owren (Portland, OR, USA) Modeling paleo-speech with motherese - Elizabeth H. Peters (Tallahassee, FL, USA) Evidence for changes in diet, food preparation, and distribution: Implications for changes in hominid social organization and communication - Sonia Ragir (Staten Island, NY, USA) Why people can pronounce so many different sounds: A conflict theory of the genealogy of human vocal diversity - Bruce Richman (Cleveland Heights, OH, USA) Semantic encoding: Unique to humans - Leonard Rolfe (Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK) Affect and the evolution of language: A comparative study - Daniel Shanahan (Jouy-en-Josas, France) Programming languages, their reality and origins, and what that can tell us about natural language origins - Georgi Stojanov (Skopje, Macedonia) Why look to gesture - William C. Stokoe (Silver Spring, Maryland, USA) Ernst Cassirer on language origins - Gerhild Tesak (Dresden, Germany) "Primitive language" in language breakdown - Jrgen Tesak (Dresden, Germany) Auditory processing against the background activity of speech-formatting and vocalization systems of the human brain: An analysis on the basis of an evolutionary approach - Inna A. Vartanian (St. Petersburg, Russia) Language and environment - William S. Verplanck (Knoxville, TN, USA) Etymological phonosemantics and glossogonic research - Stanislav V. Voronin (St. Petersburg, Russia) Description, command and the evolutionary function of language - Dennis P. Waters (Princeton, NJ, USA) ******************* Registration The standard registration fee for the 1996 LOS Conference will be US $50 (US $30 for students). This fee will include the entire academic program as well as a Welcome Reception on Thursday evening and a special LOS Dinner on Sunday evening. For those interested in attending a single day's session, the registration fee will be $15. The single day fee is for sessions only. There will be an additional charge for the Welcome Reception on Thursday and the LOS dinner on Sunday. Housing Arrangements have been made for campus lodging and meals. The cost to stay on campus is US $20 per night for single rooms in 4-room apartments that have a common area, bathroom, and kitchen. Conditional upon room availability, arrangements can be made for arrival before July 10 and departure after July 15. The campus meal plan will be available during the meeting for approximately US $18 per day (three meals). Optional off-campus (hotel) housing and meals are available for meeting attendees. For those wishing to stay off campus, several hotels are located 10 to 15 minutes from UMBC. Transportation from hotels to campus is not provided, but taxi service is available. Arrangements have been made at the following hotels, which should be contacted directly to make reservations: Holiday Inn BWI (rate $71), at 1 410 859-8400; and Susse Chalet BWI (rate $51), at 1 410 859-2333; be sure to mention UMBC and the LOS Meeting when calling. Transportation By Air: The Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) is located 7 miles from the UMBC campus. Limousine and Taxi Service is available on the lower level, near the baggage claim area (the taxi ride from BWI to UMBC is $10-$15). Attendees arriving at Washington National Airport or Dulles Airport will have a one-hour ride on the Baltimore Shuttle, which offers limousine service to any point in Baltimore. The best way to travel to UMBC, however, is by train. Take the Washington Flier from the airport to the Washington Amtrak station (US $8 from National; US $16 from Dulles.) This train runs every 30 minutes from 5:20 am until 10:20 pm. From the Amtrak Station the Marc Train to BWI Airport leaves every half hour until 10 pm (cost US $4.50). From BWI, the UMBC campus is a short taxi ride away. By Train: Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station is located in downtown Baltimore, a 20-minute taxi ride from campus. An alternate destination is the BWI Amtrak Station, just 10 minutes from campus (not all trains stop at the BWI Station). By Car: From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to exit 47B, Route 166. Follow the signs to UMBC. From Baltimore City and north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B, Route 166. Follow the signs to UMBC. From I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) take exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC on the left. Information Additional detailed information and directions to the campus will be provided with confirmation of your registration. Directions to UMBC and campus information are available on the internet (http://www.umbc.edu/). Registration The UMBC Conference Center can accept Mastercard or Visa. 1) By phone: 1 410 455-2336 2) By FAX: 1 410 455-1074 3) By email to: bartholoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dibit.hsr.it>Andrea Moro DIPSCO - Istituto Scientifico H San Raffaele, Milano May 14 1996 "Inside NPs" Dear Colleagues, we are glad to inform you that the program of the "Inside NPs" conference has been confirmed. You find the program below together with a brief description of the aim of the conference. For a list of hotels and for specific information on how to reach S. Raffaele, send an e-mail to dipscoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue