2011-2013 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) #23242025 “An Integrated Generative Biolinguistic Approach to the Design, Development and Evolution of the Human Language Faculty”Biolinguistics Project, Japan

Events

Kyoto Conference on Biolinguistics (KCB)

 

Kyoto Conference on Biolinguistics

- The Human Language Faculty: Its Design, Development and Evolution -

 

March 12, Monday, 2012, 10am – 6pm

Shirankaikan Inamori Hall, Kyoto University, Medical School Area

Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan [ access map ]

 

Special Lectures

Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/University of Barcelona)

Clarifying the Content of the Third Factor in Language Design

Denis Bouchard (University of Quebec at Montreal)

Solving the UG Problem

Naoki Fukui (Sophia University)

Merge and (A)symmetry

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona)

(in collaboration with Juan Uriagereka and David Medeiros)

Steps towards the Physics of Language

Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)*

Toward a Natural History of Language

 

 

*Co-sponsored by the 2012 Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics

Admission is free for all. Pre-registration is strongly recommended.

A welcome party is scheduled immediately after the conference (3,000JPY). Please complete your registration for the welcome party by February 29.

The conference program is here.

The pre-registration form is here.

 

[Lunch Map]

 

We are very happy that the Kyoto Conference on Biolinguistics, held at Kyoto University on March 12, attracted about 180 people and ended as a huge success. We thank all the speakers and the participants for making KCB such a memorable event together with us. Happy birthday to Biolinguistics in Japan!

Following the KCB, Evolang IX Kyoto was also a big success, with about 350 participants. We are proud that we played a major role in the realization of Evolang IX too.

The lectures at the KCB and the plenary talks at Evolang were videotaped by the Kyoto University OpenCourseWare, and will be available for online free viewing. We will announce it when they are ready, so please be patient!

 

EVOLANG IX Workshops

Following KCB, EVOLANG IX will be held at Campus Plaza Kyoto on March 13-16, 2012. There will be five workshops on the first day, and two of them will be co-organized by our project and others.

 

Theoretical Linguistics/Biolinguistics

Lecture Room 1, 5th Floor, Campus Plaza Kyoto

March 13th, 2012, 9.15 – 15.45

• Workshop Description
• Workshop Timetable

Invited Speakers:

• Cedric Boeckx & Youngmi Jeong:  Structuring the Parametric Space without Assuming an Overspecified UG

• Denis Bouchard:  The Design Features from which Signs and Recursion Emerged in Language

• Anna Maria Di Sciullo:  Biolinguistics, Minimalist Grammars, and the Emergence of Complex Numerals

• Angel Gallego:  Copies as Inert Elements

• Koji Sugisaki:  Subject-Aux Inversion in Child English Revisited

Organizers: Roger Martin (Yokohama National University) & Koji Fujita (Kyoto University)

Contact Address: martin@ynu.ac.jp

 

Language and the Brain

Lecture Room 2, 4th Floor, Campus Plaza Kyoto

March 13th, 2012, 9.15 – 15.40

• Workshop Description
• Workshop Timetable

Invited Speakers:

• Michael A. Arbib:  Evolving the Direct Path in Praxis as a Bridge to Duality of Patterning in Language

• Stefano F. Cappa:  Imaging Syntax and Semantics in the Brain

Speakers:

• Ermenegildo Bidese, Andrea Padovan and Alessandra Tomaselli:  Against Protolanguage

• Hiroko Hagiwara:  A Cohort Study on Child Language Acquisition and Brain Development

• Kuniya Nasukawa:  Recursion in Intra-Morphemic Phonology

• Suki Suet Yee Yiu:  Implications of Tonogenesis on Tone Processing

• Noriaki Yusa:  Structure Dependence in the Brain

Organizers: Noriaki Yusa (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University) & Hajime Ono (Kinki University)

Contact Address: n_yusa@me.com

 

In order to attend these workshops, it is necessary that you register for the main conference of EVOLANG IX.

Please note that the deadline for early rate registration is approaching (Jan. 31 Feb. 10).

 

The 9^th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG IX, Kyoto)

Website：http://kyoto.evolang.org/

Our project is a major sponsor of EVOLANG IX, to be held in Kyoto on March 13^th – 16^th , 2012.
We are very pleased and honored that Prof. Noam Chomsky (MIT) and Prof. Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/UAB) have accepted our invitation to give their plenary lectures for EVOLANG IX and also for our own symposium (tentatively called Kyoto Conference on Biolinguistics), scheduled on March 12^th , 2012, Kyoto. Details of this symposium will be announced later on this website.

 

*With many regrets, Prof. Chomsky has to cancel  his plenary lecture at EVOLANG. (Dec. 26, 2011)