UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE:

FORTY YEARS DOWN THE GARDEN PATH.

JUNE 28-JULY1st

San Sebastián-Donostia

The Basque Country, Spain

The famous garden path sentence the horse raced past the barn fell turns 40 years since it was published in the seminal paper “The Cognitive Basis of Linguistics Structures” by Thomas G. Bever, one of the founders of the field of language processing. Language is the focus of some of the major scientific issues in cognitive science, such as the interaction between associative habits and structured mental computations, or a productive rapport between innatist approaches and biological and functional approaches. This meeting brings together some of the most outstanding researchers in the field, to discuss current frontiers in our understanding of language within cognitive science, and to assess the progress made during these four decades of research in language processing.

SPEAKERS:

Gerry Altman, University of York

Thomas G. Bever, University of Arizona

Ina  Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, University of Marburg

Manuel Carreiras, Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language

Gary Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Luciano Fadiga, Italian Institute of Technology-University of Ferrara 

Charles Lin, Indiana University

Yosef Grodzinsky, Mc Guill University

Bill Idsardi, University of Maryland

Sonia Kotz, Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Maryellen MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jacques Mehler, SISSA-ISAS CNS, Trieste

Colin Phillips, University of Maryland

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, University of Arizona

Douglass Saddy, University of Reading

Edward P. Stabler, UCLA

Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester

ORGANIZERS:

Itziar Laka (University of the Basque Country)

Montserrat Sanz (Kobe University of Foreign Studies, Japan)

Pello Salaburu (University of the Basque Country)

CONTACT:

Itziar Laka itziar.laka@ehu.es

Edurne Petrirena edurne.petrirena@ehu.es