Here is a preliminary schedule for our October symposium. (Subject to changes, so check back for updates):
ICREA International Symposium on Biolinguistics
Time: October
1, 2 & 3, 2012
Place: Universitat
de Barcelona, Aula Magna
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Monday, October 1
9.30-10.00 Opening
Remarks
Jaume
Bertranpetit (ICREA Director)
M. Antonia Martí (Chair,
Department of General Linguistics, UB)
Cedric
Boeckx (ICREA/UB, symposium convener)
10.00-11.00 Adaptationist
and exaptationist hypotheses in Biolinguistics:
Beyond the roadblock
W. Tecumseh Fitch (U. Vienna)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
break
11.30-12.30 Emotion as a source of complexity in animal vocalizations
Kazuo Okanoya (U. Tokyo)
12.30-13.30 Molecular
windows into language: The view from FOXP2
Sonja Vernes (Max Planck, Nijmegen)
13.30-16.00 Lunch
break
16.00-17.00 Brain
form and brain function:
Paleoneurological perspectives on the evolution of language
Emiliano Bruner (CENIEH, Burgos)
17.00-18.00 Neandertal
paleogenomics, FOXP2 and the origin of language
Carles Lalueza-Fox (U. Pompeu Fabra)
18.00-18.30 Coffee
break
18.30-19.30 The ontogeny and phylogeny of language
Charles Yang (U. Pennsylvania)
Tuesday, October 2
09.00-10.00 Cerebral
correlates of constituent structures
Christophe Pallier (CNRS/INSERM-CEA, Paris)
10.00-11.00 Variations in the recursive signal
Douglas Saddy (U. Reading)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
break
11.30-12.30 Neurophysiological
mechanisms involved in language learning in adults
Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (ICREA/U. Barcelona)
12.30-13.30 Phrasal
prosody and word frequency bootstrap word order:
A cross-linguistic study in adults and prelexical infants
Judit Gervain (CNRS, U. Paris Descartes)
13.30-15.00 Lunch
break
15.00-16.00 Poster
presentations
16.00-17.00 Can
cultural evolution explain why language has structure?
Simon Kirby (U. Edinburgh)
17.00-18.00 Explaining
the origins of grammatical agreement
Luc Steels (ICREA/U. Pompeu Fabra)
18.00-18.30 Coffee
break
18.30-19.30 The
ecophysics of language change
Ricard Solé (ICREA/U. Pompeu Fabra; Santa Fe Institute)
Wednesday, October 3
09.00-10.00 The hands that rocked the cradle of language
Koji Fujita (U. Kyoto)
10.00-11.00 The emergence of form in a new sign language
Wendy Sandler (U. Haifa)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
break
11.30-12.30 Mechanisms of language acquisition as revealed by artificial language learning
experiments
Luca Bonatti (ICREA/U. Pompeu Fabra)
12.30-13.30 The
dorsal pathway as the interface between attention and language during learning
Ruth de Diego Balaguer (ICREA/U. Barcelona)
13.30-15.30 Lunch
break
15.30-17.30 Roundtable
Toni Gomila (U. Balearic Islands)
Albert Bastardas (U. Barcelona, ICREA Academia program)
Joana Rosselló (U. Barcelona)
Kleanthes K. Grohmann (U. Cyprus)
17.30 Reception,
Sala de Professors, Josep Carner Building, 5th floor, UB