Workshop 1 - Biolinguistics Tuesday 2 April Venue: H435 (in Humanisthuset)08:30-18:00Registration open - Please register09:00-09:15 Welcome and announcements09:15-10:15 Invited speaker, Robert Berwick (MIT): Darwinian Linguistics 10:15-10:45 Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge/Stellenbosch), Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Michelle Sheehan (Cambridge): On the Mafioso Effect in Grammar10:45- 11:15 Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER): Some Maladaptive Traits of Natural Language11:15-11:30 Coffe/Tea break11:30-12:15 Poster presentationCedric Boeckx (ICREA & Barcelona) and Anna Martínez-Álvarez (Barcelona): A multi-step algorithm for serial order: Converging evidence from Linguistics and NeuroscienceEvelina Leivada and Pedro Tiago Martins (Barcelona): (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in TranslationJordi Fortuny and Adriana Fasanella (CLT-UAB): Reducing linguistic variation to Third Factor mechanismsRita Manzini (Firenze): Variation and the architecture of grammar. Where are parameters? Where is lexicalization?Evelina Leivada (Barcelona): The emergent nature of parametric variationCristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro (Pavia): Hierarchy and Recursion in the BrainSilvia Albertini (Pavia), Marco Tettamanti (Milan) and Andrea Moro (Pavia): The impossible chaos: When the mind cannot eliminate language structureMichelle Sheehan (Cambridge): A parameter hierarchy approach to alignmentJoana Rosselló (Barcelona): What a syllable can tell us on languageCedric Boeckx (ICREA/Barcelona), Wolfram Hinzen (Durham) and Antonio Benitez-Burraco (Huelva): Prospects for a comparative biolinguisticsTimothy Bazalgette (Cambridge): An algorithm for lexicocentric parameter acquisitionElisa Di Domenico (Perugia): Setting the elements of syntactic variation in L2 acquisition: On the English 's morphemeDany Jaspers (Brussels/Leuven): Constraints on Concept FormationAna M. Suárez Sándalo (Madrid): Concepts, Language, and Human BrainJason Overfelt (UMass, Amherst): Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward MovementPilar Barbosa (Minho): pro as a minimal NP: towards a unified theory of pro-drop12:15-14:00 LUNCH14:00-14:30 Andreas Trotzke (Konstanz) and Markus Bader (Frankfurt): Against usage-based approaches to recursion: The grammar-performance distinction in a biolinguistic perspective14:30-15:00 Wolfram Hinzen and Txuss Martin (Durham): From infant pointing to the phase: Grammaticalizing deictic reference15:00-15:30 Norbert Corver (Utrecht): Colorful spleeny ideas speak furiously15:30-16:00 Coffe/Tea break16:00-16:30 Koji Fujita (Kyoto): In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis16:30-17:00Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Giuseppe Longobardi (York), Luca Bortolussi (Trieste), Andrea Sgarro (Trieste), Giuseppina Sivestri (Trieste/Pisa) and Andrea Ceolin (Trieste): The historical reality of biolinguistic diversity17:00-17:30 Anna Maria Di Sciullo (Québec à Montréal): Language Faculty, Complexity Reduction and Symmetry Breaking17:30-18:15 Poster presentation [see above] 18:15-18:30 Break18:30-19:30Invited speaker: Charles Yang (UPenn): Tipping PointsPDF Version of the programme
