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Cambridge Workshop: Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?

Special one-day MIT Workshop:

Where Does Syntax Come From? Have We All Been Wrong?

Cambridge, MA, October 19, 2007

Friday, October 19th, 2007, 9 am - 5:30 pm (refreshments 9-9:30; lunch 12:30-1:30; afternoon refreshments)

MIT, Room 34-401 (Grier Room), Cambridge, MA

No advance registration required, no fee - open to all.
Open roundtable discussion at the end of the day.

The speakers:

  • Noam Chomsky, MIT: Remarks and Reflections
  • Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona: Statistical Natural Language Parsing: Reliable Models of Language?
  • Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania, Human Simulations of Language Learning
  • Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland, Structure Dependence, the Rational Learner, and Putnam's 'Sane Person'
  • Chris Manning, Stanford University, Title TBA
  • Parta Niyogi, University of Chicago, The Computational Nature of Language Learning
  • William Gregory Sakas & Janet Dean Fodor, CUNY, 'Ideal' Language Learning and The Psychological Resource Problem
  • Josh Tennenbaum, Amy Perfors, MIT, & Terry Regier, University of Chicago, Explorations in Language Learnability Using Probabilistic Grammars and Child-directed Speech