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9.30-10.00 | Opening remarks |
Jaume Bertranpetit (ICREA Director) | |
M.Antònia Martí (Chair, Department of General Linguistics, UB) | |
Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/UB, symposium convener) | |
10.00-11.00 | Adaptationist and exaptationist hypothesis 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 | Neanderthal 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) |
9.00-10.00 | Cerebral correlates of constituent structures |
Christophe Pallier (CNRS/INSERM-CEA, Paris) | |
10.00-11.00 | Variations on 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 Rodríguez-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) | |
[joint work with Katrien Beuls (VU Brussels)] | |
18.00-18.30 | Coffee break |
18.30-19.30 | The ecophysics of language change |
Ricard Solé (ICREA/U.Pompeu Fabra; Santa Fe Insitute) |
9.00-10.00 | 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 language |
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 |
Six maladaptive traits of natural language Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS-IKER) |
Limitations of pathology-specific hypotheses: Evidence from argument structure Silvia Martínez Ferreiro (Pompeu Fabra University & University of Novi Sad) |
Does ABSL lack Duality of Patterning? Celia Alba (Pompeu Fabra University) & Joana Rosselló (University of Barcelona) |
Counting as a language offshoot Jeroni Tutusaus Roca (University of Barcelona) |
The primitives of Universal Grammar: Program analysis of parametric dependencies Evelina Leivada (University of Barcelona) |
Broca's area, brain pathways and linearization Anna Martínez Álvarez (University of Barcelona) |
Grammaticalizing pointing: The origin of indexicality Txuss Martín (Durham University) & Wolfram Hinzen (Durham University) |
Sources of biolinguistic variation Lluis Barceló-Coblijn (University of the Balearic Islands) |
The Faculty of Language: Deeper layers of (unexpected?) variation? Antonio Benítez Burraco (University of Huelva) |
The acceleration of the genetic clock points to the importance of the cerebrocortico-cerebellar connectivity in the emergence of the language faculty Carmen Saldaña Gascón (University of Edinburgh) |