4:20 - 5:00pm
Symposium

The Cortical Organization of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective

Syntax and Parsing by Brains and Machines

William Matchin
The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines
4:20 - 5:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    William Matchin

    University of South Carolina

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    A Linguistic Learning Bias Found in Humans, Animals, and Artificial Learners
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    Bootstrapping the Syntactic Bootstrapper
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    Developmental Syntactic Disorders and What They Say about the Critical Period
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    Why Children and Machines Learn Differently
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    Grammatical Generalization and Language Processing in Humans and Machines
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    General discussion
    Stanislas Dehaene

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    Simulating the Emergence of Linguistic Categories in Infants
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    On the Proper Role of Linguistically-Oriented Deep Net Analysis in Linguistic Theorizing
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    The Limits of Competence and Processing: The Case of Copular Sentences
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    Beyond the Benchmarks: Linguistically-Informed Notions of Locality and Similarity in Distributed Spa…
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    Quantifiers in Natural Language: The Interface between Syntax and Logic
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    Logic, Grammar and Distribution: The Case of Polarity Items
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    Symposium
    2:40 - 3:20pm

    Probing Syntax and Semantics in the Brain
    Christophe Pallier

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    3:40 - 4:20pm

    The Cortical Organization of Syntax: A Minimalist Perspective
    William Matchin

    Symposium
    4:20 - 5:00pm

    Why Humans Still Trump Machines: The Language of Thought Hypothesis
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    5:20 - 6:00pm

    General discussion
    Stanislas Dehaene

    Symposium
    6:00 - 7:00pm

    See also

    Stanislas Dehaene, chair Experimental Cognitive Psychology
    Stéphane Mallat, chair Data science
    Luigi Rizzi, chair General Linguistics
    The Representation of Language in Brains and Machines