Linguistics
at AAAS
LSA members
will find language-related symposia in several tracks at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Francisco (15-20 February 2001).
For current information on the program, see the AAAS website: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2001.
Organized
Sessions
- Brain Mechanisms of
Reading and Dyslexia
Organizer: Guinevere Eden (Georgetown U Med Ctr)
- Evaluating Precursor
Systems for Human Language in Apes and Children
Organizer: Merrill Garrett (U AZ)
- Language and the Criminal
Law
Organizer: Peter Tiersma (Loyola Law Sch)
- The Literacy Crisis
in Deaf Education: Building Bilingual Bridges
Organizer: Cecile McKee (U AZ)
- Many Languages--One
Grammar: Optimality and the Mathematical Structure of Human Language
Organizer: Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins U)
- Mathematical Statistics
in Natural Language Analysis
Organizers: Richard Oehrle; Lawrence S. Moss (IN U)
- The Nature and Origins
of Mathematical Thinking
Organizer: Keith Devlin (St. Mary's C)
- Reprogramming the Human
Brain after Injury
Organizers: Sandra B. Chapman (U TX-Dallas); Bert S. Moore (U TX-Dallas)
- Signs and Sounds:
Modality Effects on the Architecture of Language
Organizer: Diane Brentari (Purdue U)
Other
Papers
- Alison Gopnik
(UC-Berkeley): The Scientist in the Crib
- Judy Kegl
(U S ME): Language Emergence in a Language-Ready Brain
- Adrienne Lehrer
(U AZ): Wine and Conversation