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Tue Dec 17 2002

Confs: Anthropological Ling

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    Message 1: Anthropological Ling, Grenoble France

     Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:21:47 +0000
    From: abry <abryicp.inpg.fr>
    Subject: Anthropological Ling, Grenoble France


    Vocalize to Localize: A Missing Piece in the Puzzling Route Towards Language

    Short Title: Vocalize to Localize Location: Grenoble, France Date: 30-Jan-2003 - 31-Jan-2003

    Contact Person: Anne Vilain Meeting Email: avilainicp.inpg.fr Linguistic Subfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    Within the framework of our OMLL project Orofacial control in communication in human and non-human primates, we are organizing a conference addressing the issue of ''vocalising to localise'', that is the necessity to take into account the function of speech in the study of its development, and to include the eye-hand localisation system as a fundamental piece in the works on the origins of language. The compared development and interrelation between these two systems will be examined during this conference, that will gather scientists from language acquisition, communication disorders, neurophysiology, psychology, speech technology, primate behaviour and communication, and anthropology.

    Provisional Programme

    Thursday, January, 30th

    8h30: Reception

    9h00: Welcome to 'Vocalise to localise', Jean-Luc Schwartz, Head of ICP (Institut de la Communication Parlée, CNRS-INPG-Stendhal) and Christian Abry, Head of Linguistic Department (Stendhal University), France.

    Session 1 Eye, mouth, hand action-perception systems

    9h30-10h10 Early integration of vision and manipulation. Giorgio Metta, LIRA-Lab, DIST, University of Genova, Italy, and Paul Fitzpatrick, AI-Lab, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA

    10h10-10h50 Neandertal was not handicapped to actuate his vocal tract and achieve a language perceptual space Louis-Jean Boë, ICP, Grenoble, France

    10h50-11h30 Grooming and speech mirror neurons (Title to be confirmed) Leonardo Fogassi, Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universita di Parma, Italia

    11h30-13h00 Poster presentations and demonstrations of works in progress

    13h00 - 14h00 Lunch

    Session 2 'Monstrate' and Predicate

    14h - 14h40 Meerkat alarm calls signal predator class and urgency Marta Manser, Verhaltensbiologie, Zoologisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland

    14h40-15h20 Localisation with Gestures: The Evolutionary Origins of Deixis David A. Leavens & William D. Hopkins, Division of Psychobiology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center & Department of Psychology, Berry College, USA

    15h20-15h40 Coffee Break

    15h40-16h20 Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex Oana Benga, Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    16h20-17h00 Communicative gestures and linguistic signs in the first two years of life (Title to be confirmed) Elena Pizzuto, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Rome, Italy

    17h00- 17h40 Shake, Babble, and Bounce: Developmental Origins of the Gesture-Speech Link in Infant Vocal-Motor Coordination Jana M. Iverson, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

    Friday, January, 31st

    Session 2 (continued) 'Monstrate' and Predicate

    8h30-9h10 Spatial Bootstrapping: Localization and the Development of Predicate-Structure to Sentence Mappings Peter F. Dominey, Sequential Cognition and Language Group, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Lyon, France

    9h10-9h50 Learning language features with a robot (Title to be confirmed) Luc Steels, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

    9h50- 10h30 The frame of speech frame and sign frame Christian Abry et al., ICP, Grenoble, France

    10h30-10h50 Coffee Break

    Session 3 Babbling, Signs and Words

    10h50-11h30 The Neurobiology of Gesture in Chimpanzees: Implications for the Evolution of Human Language and Speech William D. Hopkins, Division of Psychobiology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center & Department of Psychology, Berry College, USA

    11h30-12h10 Interweaving Protosign and Protospeech: Further Developments Beyond the Mirror Michael A. Arbib Computer Science, Neuroscience and USC Brain Project, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    12h10-13h30 Lunch

    13h30-14h10 Interactions of Perceptual Input with Production Constraints in Early Vocalizations of Hearing-Impaired Infants: Implications for Frame Dominance Barbara L. Davis & Peter F. MacNeilage, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

    14h10- 14h50 Speech and limb apraxia (Title to be confirmed) Chris Code, School of Psychology, Washington Singer Labs, University of Exeter, UK

    14h50- 15h30 Baby Talk and the Origin of the Word: A Reconstruction Peter F. MacNeilage and Barbara L. Davis, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

    15h30-15h50 Coffee Break

    15h50-17h00 Closing debate