言語学講演会のお知らせ（Wolfram Hinzen氏）

[Koji Fujita]

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以下のようにWolfram Hinzen氏の講演会を開催します．
言語と思考の関係に，自閉症や統合失調症，認知症の観点から
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Un-Cartesian Linguistics and the Nature of the Semantic Interface
Wolfram Hinzen
(ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Chair / Discussant
Roger Martin (Yokohama National University)

日 時 2017年8月3日(木) 16:00 – 17:30
場 所 京都大学 吉田南キャンパス 総合人間学部棟 地下1階 1B05教室
　　　　　https://www.h.kyoto-u.ac.jp/access/

Abstract:
In recent linguistic theory and the Minimalist Program in particular,
the interface
between linguistic and non-linguistic cognition has come to be of
critical importance in
the study of the nature of the faculty of language. In this regard,
Un-Cartesian
linguistics has radicalized old ideas about the nature of this
interface, according to
which the intrusion of language into the brain has reformatted primate
cognition,
creating a novel neural infrastructure in which human-specific thought
can arise and
without which it is unavailable. If so, there is no interface between
two independent
systems of language and thought in humans, and generativity in language and
human-specific thought are the same. New evidence for this hypothesis
comes from
thought disturbances (psychopathologies). Un-Cartesian linguistics
predicts that such
disturbances must involve language disturbances. I will review recent
evidence from my
lab testing this prediction in three clinical populations: children
and adolescents with
autism who do not develop language in any modality, whether in production or in
comprehension; patients with formal thought disorder, a symptom of
schizophrenia; and
patients with Huntington’s disease, an early dementia. It turns out
that in all three cases,
there is strong evidence that thought disintegration is mirrored in language
disintegration, in a way that appears to be independent of non-linguistic
neuro-psychological deficits. It is thus potentially key to better
understanding these
disorders and the connection between language and thought at large.

W. Hinzen is (co-)author and co-editor of:
Mind and Language. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
The Philosophy of Universal Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2013.
The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality. Oxford University Press, 2012.
An Essay on Naming and Truth. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Mind Design and Minimal Syntax. Oxford University Press, 2006.

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MEXT科研費 新学術領域研究 領域番号4903 課題番号17H06379
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