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This symposium is to be held as follows.
* Admission free, no
registration required.
* Held in English, no
interpretation provided.
Title: "Future Trends in the Biology of
Language"
Date and Time: Wednesday, 9th March, 2011; 9:00 - 17:40
Thursday, 10th March, 2011; 9:00 -
17:30
Venue: North Building Hall, Mita Campus, Keio
University
[Wednesday, 9th March]
Opening Remarks: Shigeru Watanabe (Keio University)
1.Genetics of
Language
Speakers and Themes:
Juko
Ando (Keio University) "Twins"
Takashi Momoi (International University of Health and
Welfare) "FOXP2 & Autism"
Ana Pinheiro (University of Minho) "Language processing in Williams syndrome: insights from event-related potentials"
12:40-12:50 Discussion
2.Evolution of
Language
Speakers and Themes:
Takashi
Hashimoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
"Grammaticalization"
Kazuo
Okanoya (University of Tokyo) "Birdsong"
Cedric Boeckx (Catalan Institute for Advanced
Studies) "Language Faculty"
17:30-17:40 Discussion
Discussant: Noriko Osumi
(Tohoku University)
[Thursday,10th March]
3.Neuroscience of
Language
Speakers and Themes:
Shiro
Ojima (Keio University) "Child L2"
Guillaume Thierry (Bangor University) "Neuro-
bilingualism"
John Connolly
(McMaster University) "Consciousness Assessment"
12:40-12:50 Discussion
4.Acquisition of
Language
Speakers and Themes:
Mutsumi
Imai (Keio University) "Linguistic Relativity"
Tetsuya Sano (Meiji Gakuin University
) "Syntactic Dependencies"
Yukio
Otsu (Keio University) "Language Awareness"
17:20-17:30 Discussion
Closing Remarks: Yukio Otsu (Keio University)
Organized by:
Global COE Program "Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and
Sensibility", Keio University
Anyone interested may participate! Please click for:
poster
and
further information.
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