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Venue


Room 508, Building 2
Sophia University, Tokyo

 

Friday, March 4

9:45 to 10:00

Opening Remarks

10:00 to 11:00

Linguistics and Some Aspects of its Underlying Dynamics - Part 1
[PDF]

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona), Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno)


Chair: Roger Martin

11:00 to 11:15 Break

11:15 to 12:15

Linguistics and Some Aspects of its Underlying Dynamics - Part 2
[PDF]

Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona), Giuseppe Vitiello (University of Salerno)


Chair: Roger Martin


12:15 to 13:30 Lunch



13:30 to 14:30

Brain Circuits for Language Processing
[PDF]

Kuniyoshi L. Sakai (University of Tokyo)

Chair: Masakazu Kuno

14:30 to 14:45 Break

14:45 to 15:45

Merge-Generability as a Crucial Concept in Syntax: An Experimental Study
[PDF]

Shinri Ohta (University of Tokyo), Naoki Fukui (Sophia University), Mihoko Zushi (Kanagawa University), Hiroki Narita (Nihon University), Kuniyoshi L. Sakai (University of Tokyo)



Chair: Masakazu Kuno

15:45 to 16:00 Break

16:00 to 17:00

Irreducible Subnets and Random Delays: Limiting the Vocabulary of Neural Information

James Douglas Saddy (University of Reading), Peter Grindrod (Oxford University) [live video]


Chair: Takaomi Kato

17:00 to 17:15 Break

17:15 to 18:15

Emergent Oscillations and Cyclicity: Physical Aspects of Frustrated Cognitive Systems
[PDF]

James Douglas Saddy (University of Reading), Diego Gabriel Krivochen (University of Reading)


Chair: Takaomi Kato

18:30 to 20:30

Reception (held at Faculty and Staff Dining Room, Sophia University)
[Pre-registration is necessary. (Link to the online pre-registration)]

 

 

Saturday, March 5

10:00 to 11:00

Merge α and Superpositioned Labels
[PDF]

Koji Fujita (Kyoto University)

Chair: Ángel Gallego

11:00 to 11:15 Break

11:15 to 12:15

Queue Left, Stack-Sort Right: Syntactic Structure without Merge
[PDF]

David P Medeiros (University of Arizona)

Chair: Ángel Gallego


12:15 to 13:30 Lunch Break



13:30 to 14:30

Language Combinatorics as Matrix Mechanics: Conceptual and Empirical Bases
[PDF]

Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland) [live video], Roger Martin (Yokohama National University), Ángel Gallego (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)


Chair: Hiroki Narita

14:30 to 14:45 Break

14:45 to 15:45

Language Combinatorics as Matrix Mechanics: Mathematical Derivation and Properties
[PDF]

Román Orús (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität) [live video], Michael Jarret (University of Maryland)


Chair: Hiroki Narita

15:45 to 16:15 Break

16:15 to 17:15

From Geometry and Physics to Computational Linguistics
[PDF]

Matilde Marcolli (California Institute of Technology)

Chair: Michael Jarret

17:15 to 17:30 Break

17:30 to 18:30

Geometric Language to Replace Mathematics and Computer Programming
[PDF]

Anirban Bandyopadhyay (National Institute for Materials Science)

Chair: Michael Jarret