[CONF] Fwd: International Conference on Biolinguistics

[Demetrius Viridianus]

Каким-то не вполне ясным образом вот это упало мне на почту; если судить по именам, это что-то нормальное, но все вопросы, разумеется, на указанный там адрес, а не ко мне.


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От кого: Bioling Conference <bioli...@gmail.com>
Кому: dz...@mail.ru
Дата: Вторник, 17 мая 2022, 21:33 +03:00
Тема: International Conference on Biolinguistics
 

Dear Colleague, 

 

We are organizing the BioLing1 conference (a conference on biolinguistics) and were wondering if you could do us the favor of forwarding the following call for abstracts to the professors and graduate students in your department/group. Please notice that the deadline for submitting abstracts is May 31, 2022. 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

The BioLing1 Team, 

 

 

Full Title: First Conference on Biolinguistics of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Short Title: BioLing1

Date: 24-Jun-2022 - 26-Jun-2022
Location: Quebec, Canada
Contact Person: Angelika Bacher
Meeting Email: bioli...@gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-May-2022

Meeting Description:

Theme: Meeting the Conditions of Learnability and Evolvability.

Invited Speakers

CALIXTO AGÜERO-BAUTISTA (UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS-RIVIÈRES)
SANDIWAY FONG (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
WOLFRAM HINZEN (POMPEU FABRA UNIVERSITY)
NORBERT HORNSTEIN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
RICHARD LARSON (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK)
HOWARD LASNIK (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
SHIGERU MIYAGAWA (MIT)
MASSIMO PIATELLI PALMARINI (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA)
DAVID POEPPEL (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY/MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS)

BRIDGET D. SAMUELS (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)
KARIN STROMSWOLD (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)

Chomsky (2019) notes that the human, species-specific faculty of language (FL), must meet “competing” conditions of learnability and evolvability. FL must be rich enough to allow a child to acquire a language from the scattered and limited data made available in the differing expressions of typologically different languages. FL must also be “simple enough so that it could have evolved.” Chomsky offers these dual conditions as “conditions for a genuine explanation” asserting that any proposal failing to meet them will fall short of “actually explaining things, even if the given proposal might be valuable in ‘organizing data in an interesting way’.”

From the perspective of the Minimalist Program (MP), arguably the best way for the FL to meet the empirical conditions of learnability and evolvability is for its architecture to have the simplest possible structure, for example, along the lines conjectured by Hauser, Chomsky and Fitch (2002), Chomsky (2016), Berwick and Chomsky (2016), and Chomsky (2019).

The BioLing research project of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is hosting its first conference on biolinguistics to explore possible ways of meeting the aforementioned conditions. The conference will be online due to the emergence of the Omicron variant of the COVID19 virus.

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (25 minute talk + 5 minute question period) on proposals that contribute to the achievement of one or more of the following objectives:

1. Contribute to the simplification of the FL by unifying multiple phenomena.
2. Show that certain mysterious phenomena follow naturally from the nature of the Merge operation.
3. Provide new information on the overall structure of the FL.
Proposals from all areas of linguistics and related fields are welcome. Researchers working on one or more of the following areas are especially encouraged to apply:
1. Externalization systems (e.g., phonological system, sign systems, tactile systems) and their implication for the overall structure of FL.
2. The relation between I-language and symbolic cognition.
3. The relation between I-language and Logic.
4. Language and Comparative cognition (the type of work that C. Randy Gallistel does on the concept of number in animals and the presence or absence of the successor function is an example of research in this area)
5. Merge and its relation to the emergence of the successor function in children and animals
6. Brain resources and linguistic computation (what’s the right level of granularity for linguistic computations (is it neuronal, molecular, or even more fine-grained?))
7. Neurolinguistics
8. Psycholinguistics
9. Language pathology

Abstracts can be submitted in either English or French and must not exceed 2 pages of letter-size or A4 paper; including examples, graphics, and references. Abstracts should be typed in a font no smaller than 11 points and should have 1” margins on all sides. They must be submitted in a PDF format and should contain a clear title. We adopt a doubly blind submission and reviewing process; hence authors should not include their names on the abstracts they are submitting. Please send abstracts to bioli...@gmail.com 

Scientific Committee:
Anne-Sophie Bally (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Paul John (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Éric Poirier (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières), Charles Reiss (Concordia University), Nina Woll (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)

Deadline for Abstracts: May 31, 2022
Notifications: By June 15, 2022
Conference Date: June 24-26, 2022.
Meeting Location: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Online)

 

 

 

 

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