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First International Conference on Biolinguistics of the UQTR(June 24-26, 2022)

Conference Program

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Preliminary Program

Friday (June 24, 2022)

10:00AM -10:30AM Jean-François Millaire (Dean of Research and Creation) Mariane Gazaille (Head of the Department of Modern Languages and Translation) Calixto Agüero-Bautista (Program Director, Modern Languages) Introductory Remarks

10:30AM -11:30AM Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland) The Triumph of Minimalism: A personal view

11:30AM -12:00PM Arturs Semenuks (University of California at San Diego) Investigating Neural Sensitivity To Hierarchical Structure in Linguistic and Musical
Stimuli in Humans And Rats

12:00PM - 1:00PM Break

1:00PM - 1:30PM Remo Nitschke (University of Arizona) and Anderson Almeida da Silva (Universidade Federal do Delta do Parnaíba) Homesign And The Speed Of Externalization:
What homesigners can tell us about the externalization of language capacity.

1:30PM - 2:30PM Wolfram Hinzen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)) Disease Models of the Language Faculty Beyond Aphasia 

2:30PM - 3:00PM Break

3:00PM - 3:30PM Aubrey Nunes (Possible Words Clinic, London, UK) The Lockstep Evolution of Speech and Language and Finite Learnability

3:30PM - 4:30PM Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University) The Nature of Evidence and the Evidence of Nature: Constrained Productivity and the Faculty of Language 

Saturday (June 25, 2022)

09:30AM-10:30AM Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) When did Human Language Emerge in Evolution? Doing detective work based on stone tools, genetics of early humans, and development of the brain 

10:30AM-11:00AM Jun Omune (Kansai Gaidai University) and Masayuki Komachi (Shizuoka University) Agree in Strictly Markovian Derivations

11:00AM to 11:30AM Break 

11:30AM-12:00PM Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) Unifying EPP- and ECP-effects and their Absence in the Nominal Domain

12:00PM-1:00PM Break

1:00PM-2:00PM Massimo Piattelli Palmarini (University of Arizona) and Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno, Italy) Third Factors in Language Design: suggestions from Quantum Field Theory (QFT)

 

2:00PM - 2:30PM Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The Evolution of Truth-Functional Negation

2:30PM-3:00PM Break

3:00PM - 4:00PM Calixto Agüero Bautista (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) Prolegomena to the Theory of Everything in Linguistics (TOEL): How Everything might Follow from Merge

4:00PM - 5:00PM Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland) On Optionality:
A Brief History and a Case Study

Sunday (June 26, 2022)

10:00AM - 10:30AM Nobu Goto (Toyo University) and Toru Ishii (Meiji University) Resource Restriction-Obedient Search on Merge: A Unified Account of Movement Phenomena

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Rim Dabbous (Concordia), Marjorie Leduc (Rutgers), David Ta-Chun Shen (Concordia), and Charles Reiss (Concordia) A minimalist Approach to Externalization: Adjacency is Opaqueness

11:00AM - 12:00PM David Poeppel (New York University and Ernst Struengmann Institute, Frankfurt) The Time for Biolinguistics has not yet Arrived.  

12:00PM - 1:00PM Break

1:00PM - 2:00PM Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona) On Computational Efficiency and Human Language

2:00PM - 3:00PM Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University) Faces and Vases. 

3:00PM-4:00PM Noam Chomsky (Laureate Professor of Linguistics and  Agnese Nelms Haury Chair, University of Arizona). Interview with Noam Chomsky (Professor Chomsky will answer questions on the status of the biolinguistic enterprise and why a minimalist theory of language must meet the conditions of learnability and evolvability. 

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