Week of February 11, 2013

Polinsky Lab Meeting

Miwako Hisagi
[Title TBA]
Wednesday, February 13 | 5:15-7pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)

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 Linguistics Seminars at AAAS Boston 2013

This year's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science features a number of language- and linguistics-related seminars. View the full program here.

The Biology and Evolution of Human Language: The Language Organ: The Bases of Human Language in Human Biology (Organizer: Stephen Anderson, Yale University)
Friday, February 15 | 8:30 AM-11:30 AM | Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)
  • Stephen Anderson (Yale University): Human Language in the Broader Biological Context
  • Steven Pinker (Harvard University): Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche
  • Janet F. Werker (University of British Columbia): Infant Speech Perception: Biological Beginnings and Experiential Influences
  • Erich Jarvis (Duke University Medical Center): Learned Birdsong and the Neurobiology of Human Language
  • David Poeppel (New York University): What We Know About the Brain Bases of Language
  • Karen Emmorey, Ph.D. (San Diego State University): The Generality of the Language Faculty: Biological Bases of Signed Language

The Biology and Evolution of Human Language: Historical Syntax (Organizer: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University); Co-Organizer: Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin); Moderator: Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin); Discussant: Mark Liberman, (University of Pennsylvania))
Friday, February 15, 2013 | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM | Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)

  • David Lightfoot (Georgetown University): Phase Transitions in Language History
  • Tony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania): Studying the Diffusion of Syntactic Changes in Historical Corpora
  • Michel DeGraff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): A Null Theory of Creole Formation

The Biology and Evolution of Human Language: Language Evolving: Genes and Culture in Ongoing Language Evolution (Organizer: Stephen C. Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics); Co-Organizer: Karen Emmorey, Ph.D. (San Diego

State University); Discussant: Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics))
Friday, February 15 | 3:00 PM-4:30 PM | Room 304 (Hynes Convention Center)

  • Simon E. Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Language, Evolution, and the Genomics Revolution
  • Russell Gray (University of Auckland): Evolutionary Principles and the Diversification of Linguistic Form
  • Carol Padden (University of California): Culture Before Genes: The Case of a Village Sign Language

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