Lightfoot & Smolensky lectures

Start date:  08.03.2004

End date:  12.03.2004

Venue:  University of Tromsø, Auditorium E0.101 in Humanities building

We are pleased to announce an intensive one-week course to be taught by Professors David Lightfoot and Paul Smolensky.

Professor Lightfoot's lectures are entitled Language and Cognitive Physiology, and will be a further development of the theories presented in his book (with S. Anderson), The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology (Cambridge University Press).

Professor Smolensky's lectures are entitled Language and Cognitive Architecture, and will be a presentation of some of the work to appear in his forthcoming book (with G. Legendre), The harmonic mind: From neural computation to optimality-theoretic grammar (MIT Press).

The course will begin on Monday, March 8th, and will conclude on Friday, March 12th. There is no fee for participating in the course. The lectures are intended for doctoral students, but are open to interested parties at all levels.

Ph.D. students requiring credit for this course will find more information about the requirements by following the "For Ph.D.s" link in the menu to the right.

This course is financed by the Norwegian Research Council, the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics and the Department of Psychology.