#  Week of February 11, 2013 

 





February 09, 2013

 

 

### Polinsky Lab Meeting

Miwako Hisagi  
[\[Title TBA\]](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/224)  
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](http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2013/) of the [American Association for the Advancement of Science](http://www.aaas.org/) features a number of [language- and linguistics-related seminars](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/221). View the full program [here](http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/start.html).

[The Biology and Evolution of Human Language: The Language Organ: The Bases of Human Language in Human Biology](http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5434.html) (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](http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5994.html)** **(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](http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2013/webprogram/Session5850.html)** **(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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