International Network in Biolinguistics

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The International Network in Biolinguistics [1] is an international network to do research on the biological basis of the language faculty, linking theoretical linguistics, developmental psychology, theoretical biology, evolutionary biology and psychology, molecular biology, genetics, and physics. It has members from varieties of discipline across the globe.

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Members

Michael A. Arbib, Evan Balaban, Robert Berwick, Thomas G. Bever, Cedric Boeckx, Johan J. Bolhuis, Lisa Cheng, Noam Chomsky, Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Ansgar Endress, Simon E. Fisher, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Angela D. Friederici, Roland Friedrich, Koji Fujita, Alessandra Giorgi, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Mohamed Guerssel, Heidi Harley, Marc Hauser, Lyle Jenkins, Richard S. Kayne, Peter Kosta, Marie Labelle, Richard Larson, Howard Lasnik, Giuseppe Longobardi, John S. Lumsden, Jing Luo, James McGilvray, Ningombam Bupenda Meitei, Partha Mitra, Andrea Moro, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, David Poeppel, Luigi Rizzi, Kenneth Safir, Uli Sauerland, Fuzhen Si, Karin Stromswold, Juan Uriagereka, Elly Van Gelderen, Andrew Wedel, Kenneth Wexler, Charles Yang. [2]

Conferences

2013

Sur la complexité des langues humaines, UQAM, [3] February 8, 2013

2011

New Perspectives on Language Creativity: Composition and Recursion, UQAM, [4] September 25–27, 2011

2010

The Language Design, UQAM, [5] May 27–30, 2010

2008

First Meeting of the INB, Tucson, Arizona, [6] February 23–24, 2008.

2007

Biolinguistic Investigations, Santo Domingo, [7] 2007

Biolinguistics: Language Evolution and Variation, Venice, [8] 2007.

Papers

The list of papers [9] is the production from different contributors and subject experts of the world.

Notes

  1. ".:: International Network in Biolinguistics ::".
  2. ".:: International Network in Biolinguistics ::".
  3. http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca/UQAM2013/miniworkshopComplexityUQAM2013.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  4. "New Perspectives on Language Creativity: Composition and Recursion .::. UQAM, September 25-27, 2011".
  5. "The Language Design: UQAM, May 27-29, 2010".
  6. "International Network in Biolinguistics - First Meeting .:. 23-24 February 2008, Tucson, Arizona". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  7. "Asymétries d'interface des langues naturelles | Natural Languages Interface Asymmetries".
  8. "Biolinguistics : Language Evolution and Variation, Venice 2007". Archived from the original on 2011-08-22. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  9. ".:: International Network in Biolinguistics ::".

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