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Logic, Neural Networks, and Optimality Theory
Workshop Berlin, July 23-25, 2003 * Jägerstraße 10-11, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Room 006
Organizers: Anton Benz (Berlin), Reinhard Blutner (Amsterdam), Helen de Hoop (Nijmegen)


Programme

Wednesday, 23rd July

 9:30
Coffee
10:00

Reinhard Blutner: Introductory Remarks
10:30

Helen de Hoop & Peter de Swart: Case and Markedness
11:00

Jason Mattausch: Bidirectionality, Grammaticalization & Anaphora
11:30 / 12:00   Break
12:00

David Beaver: Remarks on Bidirectionality, Recoverability and Compositionality
12:50 / 14:30   Break
14:30

General Discussion: The Architecture of OT Semantics: Compositionality, Underspecification, Bidirection.
16:30

Boat Trip:  Starting Point at Alte Börse (where Burgstr. meets the Spree), near S-Bahn Station Hackescher Markt!
18:30

Dinner Restaurant Hasir, Oranienburger Strasse 4.

Thursday, 24th July

10:00

Gerhard Jäger & Anette Rosenbach:  Evolutionary OT and the Emergence of Possession Splits
10:50 / 11:20   Break
11:20

Paul Boersma: Emergent Representations and Constraints in OT
12:10

Paola Escudero: The Initial State and Development of L2 Phonological Perception in OT
12:40 / 14:00   Break
14:00

Geraldine Legendre: Partial Rankings and Dual Optimization in Acquisition of Morphosyntax
14:50

Peter beim Graben: Applications of Symbolic Dynamics to Event-related Brain Potentials and Stochastic OT
15:20 / 15:50   Break
15:50

Ernst Odolphi: Binding through Shifted Attention
16:20 
Paul Smolensky: OT, Harmonic Grammar, and Neural Nets 
17:10 
Coffee

Friday, 25th July

10:00

Yukiko Morimoto: From Variation to Evolution: Toward a Unified Characterization in Stochastic Grammar
10:30

Henk Zeevat: Towards Evolutionary Foundations for Word Order
11:20 / 11:50   Break
11:50

General Discussion: Foundational Aspects of OT
13:00

Coffee