Language

8 a.m.

Registration & Continental Breakfast

The Michigan League

8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

The Michigan League

8:45-9:00

Conference Opening

9.00-9.45

The Five Graces group

Language as a Complex Adaptive System - Position Paper

Presented by John Holland

9:45-10:00

Discussion led by Carl Simon, Center for the Study of Complex Systems

9.00-9.45

Tom Schoenemann

Evolution of Brain and Language

9:45-10:00

Discussion led by John Schumann

10.00-10.45

Joan Bybee & Clay Beckner

Usage, Structure, Change

10:45-11:00

Discussion led by Robert DeKeyser

10.00-10.45

Simon Kirby

Modeling Language Evolution

10.45-11.00

Discussion led by Teresa Satterfield

11.00-11.30

Coffee

11.00-11.30

Coffee

11.30-12.15

William Croft & Richard Blythe

SocioCognitive Linguistics

12.15-12.30

Discussion led by Richard Young

11.30-12.15

Christian Matthiessen

Emergentist Approaches to Language Education

12.15-12.30

Discussion led by Mary Schleppegrell

12.30-1.30

Lunch

12.30-1.30

Lunch

1.30-2.15

Adele Goldberg & Jeremy Boyd

Constructing an L1

2.15-2.30

Discussion led by Kathleen Bardovi Harlig

2.30-3.15

Nick Ellis & Diane Larsen-Freeman

Constructing an L2

3.15-3.30

Discussion led by Lourdes Ortega

1.30-2.15

Zóltan Dörnyei

Individual differences: Interplay of Learner Characteristics and Learning Environment

2.15-2.30

Discussion led by Scott Jarvis

2.30-3.15

Robert Mislevy

Emergentist Approaches to Language Testing

3.15-3.30

Discussion led by Alister Cumming

3.30-4.00

Tea

3.30-4.00

Tea and close of conference

4.00-4.45

Morten Christiansen

Psycholinguistics and Probabilistic Language Learning

4.45-5.00

Discussion led by Julie Boland

7.00

Conference dinner at the Exhibit Museum of Natural History