Research News and Events
in the Sub-Faculty of
Spanish & Spanish American Studies
2006-07


 

III ALFAL-NE Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina del Norte de Europa

Linguistic theories and the biological foundations of human language: a dialogue
21-22 June 2007
Taylor Institution, Oxford


Programme

Thursday, 21 June 2007

9.00-9.25

Registration

9.25-9.30

Opening: Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido (Spanish Linguistics, Oxford, UK)

Session I 

Chair: Dr Tim Crow (SANE, POWIC, Oxford, UK)

Invited Key Note Speaker: Dr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK)

“Molecular windows into the neural basis of speech and language”

10.30-11.00

Dr Jennifer Gurd et al. (Clinical Neurology, Oxford, UK)

“Twin studies of language lateralization: pros and cons”

Coffee

Session II

Chair: Prof.  John Marshall (Clinical Neurology, Oxford, UK)

11. 30-12.00

Dr Tim Crow et. al. (SANE POWIC, Oxford, UK)

“The PCDHXY gene pair as the language gene?” 

12.00-12.30

Dr Patricia Gough et al. (FMRIB & Experimental psychology, Oxford, UK)

“It sounds like grammar: co-localisation of phonological and grammatical function in LIFG”

12.30-1.00

Dr Kate Watkins (Experimental Psychology & FMRIB, Oxford, UK)

“Structural and Functional brain abnormalities associated with developmental stuttering”

1.00

Guided visit to the Taylor Institution Library

Lunch

Session III

Chair:  Dr David Cram (General Linguistics,Oxford,UK)

2.30-3.30

Invited speaker: Dr Julio González Alvarez (Clinical Psycho-biology, Castellón, Spain)

“Brain and Language: the neural representation of words and their meanings”

3.30-4.00

Dr Barbara O’Connor et al. (CUNY, USA)

“Neurolinguistics of Spanish: Agrammatism and Verb-Form Regularity’

4.00-4.30

Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido (Spanish Linguistics, Oxford, UK)

“Can synaesthesia research help to understand linguistic behaviour?”

Coffee

Session IV

Chair: Prof. Mary Dalrymple (General Linguistics, Oxford, UK)

5.00-5.30

Dr Dayna Cueva Alegría (Syracuse, NY, USA)

“A moraic analysis of central Quechua Long vowels”


5.30-6.00 

Dr Ivan Ortega-Santos (Maryland, USA)

“On constraints on syntactic movement and the brain”

6.00-6.30

Dr Greg Kochansky (Phonetics Lab, Oxford, UK)

“Maintaining Discrete Linguistic Objects in the Brain”

Friday, 22  June 2007

Session V

Chair: Dr Stephen Parkinson (Portuguese Linguistics, Oxford, UK)

9:00-10.00

Invited speaker: Dr Nuria Sebastian-Galles (Psychology,GRNC-PCB, Barcelona, Spain)

“The cognitive neuroscience of bilingualism”

10.00-10.30

Dr Sebastian Crutch (Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK)

“Structurally different representational frameworks underpinning abstract and concrete words: evidence from neuropsychological studies of stroke aphasia”

Coffee

Session VI

Chair: Prof. Martin Maiden (Centre for Romance Linguistics, Oxford, UK)

11.00-11.30

Dr Laura  Spoturno et al. (Science and Technology, La Plata, Argentina)

“Plurilinguismo en el discurso literario: un acercamiento a la obra narrativa de Sandra Cisneros”

11.30-12.00

Dr Bob De Jonge (Romance Languages, Gröningen, Netherlands)

Cocoliche, lengua híbrida entre italiano y español en la región del rio de La Plata: fenómenos lingüísticos”

12:00-12.30

Dr Denise Eljatib et al. (Language sciences, Rouen, France )

“Las representaciones lingüísticas docentes en el marco de una educación plurilingüe”

12:45

Guided visit to Duke Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian Library.

Lunch

Session VII

Chair: Dr Nuria Sebastian-Galles (Psychology& GRNC-PCB, Barcelona, Spain)

Invited speaker:  Dr Manuel Carreiras (Cognitive neurosciences, La Laguna, Spain)

“From letters to words: The impact of sub-lexical processes in visual word recognition”

Dr Yamila Sevilla et al. (Neuropsychology, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

“Priming sintáctico basado en rasgos léxicos. Una experiencia con verbos aislados en la producción de oraciones en español”

4.00-4.30

Dr Juan Larrinaga ( Educational Sciences,Montevideo, Uruguay)

“Reading processing in University students”

Coffee

Session VIII

Chair: Dr John Coleman (Phonetics Lab, Oxford, UK)

5.00-5.30

Dr Riikka Möttönen  (Experimental Psychology &FMRIB, Oxford, UK)

“Speech-specific auditory processing in the human brain”

5.30-6.00

Dr Elizabeth Ljalba et al. (CUNY, USA)

“Phonological-Orthographical and Automaticity Deficits in Spanish Speakers Learning English”

6:00-6.30 

Prof. Ruth Kempson et al.  (KCL, UK)

“Language processing and syntactic change”

7.00

Closing

Reception at St Cross College

7:30

Dinner St Cross College

Thanks to the generous support of the following institutions: