the Architecture of Language is an international conference focussing on the brain aspects of language functioning. The aim of the meeting is to rethink the global architecture of language by combining data from functional exploration of the brain with proposals from the linguistic and cognitive science, thus favouring the interdisciplinary dialog.

The meeting will be held in Pisa, Italy (about 100 Km NorthWest of Florence) from Thursday 8 till Saturday 10 June, 2006 (immediately before the Human Brain Mapping Conference).

Invited Speakers:

Susan Bookheimer, Stefano Cappa, Alfonso Caramazza, Angela Friederici, Brian Mac Whinney, Andrea Moro, Mark Turner, Michael Ullman

The meeting will also host a Workshop on Lexical Complexity, with presentations by Valentina Bambini, Marcella Bertuccelli Papi, Cristina Cacciari, Vittorio Gallese, Costanza Papagno, Patrizia Tabossi

 

 

Organizing Committee:

Pier Marco Bertinetto, Marcella Bertuccelli Papi, Alessandro Lenci, Giovanna Marotta, Pietro Pietrini

Scientific Committee:

Bruno Bara, Cristina Burani, Manuel Carreiras, Gennaro Chierchia, Francesco Di Russo, Mario Guazzelli, Remo Job, Alessandro Laudanna, Giuseppe Longobardi, Claudio Luzzatti, William Marslen-Wilson, Jacques Mehler, Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi, Daniela Perani, Vito Pirrelli, Luigi Rizzi, Carlo Semenza, Tim Shallice, Deirdre Wilson

Organizing Secretariat:

Valentina Bambini (v.bambini@sns.it)
Claudio Gentili (c.gentili@med.unipi.it)

Secretary Assistants:

Veronica Bonsignori
Gloria Cappelli
Sara Conti
Daniele Franceschi
Maria Ivana Lorenzetti
Silvia Masi
Elisa Mattiello
Isabella Ricco
Marisa Scattolin

Michelangelo Falco
Margherita Farina

Organizing Institutions:

Laboratory of Linguistics, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
Department of Linguistics, University of Pisa
Department of English Studies, University of Pisa