Project for Explaining the Origin of Humans
Public Symposium Title: "A Key Property of Humans: Knowledge of a Human Language"
Dr. David Perlmutter, Symposium Organizer
Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Leichtag Conference Room #107, UCSD La Jolla Campus
Stephen Anderson, Yale University
"Animal Communication and the Uniqueness of Human Language"
Mary Beckman, Ohio State University
"Duality of Patterning in Language"
Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University
"Phonological Knowledge"
Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Syntactic Knowledge"
David Perlmutter, University of California, San Diego
"Knowledge of American Sign Language"
John L. Locke, City University of New York and Barry Bogin, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"Language and Life History: A New Perspective on the Development and Evolution of Human Language"
Patricia Greenfield, University of California, Los Angeles
"Chimp Language"
Daniel Povinelli and Derek Penn, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Do Non-Human Primates Have a Language of Thought or Not?"
Tim Crow, University of Oxford
"Nuclear Schizophrenic Symptoms as the Key to the Origins of Language"