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Program August-December 2014

[Program updated 2 October 2014.] 6August Saussure’s sound symbolismJohn JosephUniversity of Edinburgh 20August Break 3September The lost Tesoro de ydioma ylocoRebeca Fernández RodríguezCentro de Estudos em Letras (CEL)Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) 17September ‘You don’t see what you

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Program March-May 2014

[Updated 22 May 2014] 12March Language and smell: traces of synesthesia in premodern learningRaf Van RooyPhD fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)University of Leuven 26March Empirical methods in language constructionBaÅŸak ArayUniversité Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, EXeCO (PHICO) 9April

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Program October-December 2013

[Program updated 27 October 2013] 16October A uniform orthography and early linguistic research in AustraliaDavid MooreUniversity of Western Australia 23October Break 30October Hendrik Pos and the epistemological foundations of structuralismPatrick FlackCharles University, Prague 6November Teaching language to a boy born

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Program July-October 2013

[Program updated 30 July 2013] 24July Rethinking the history of the Aryan paradigmChristopher HuttonUniversity of Hong Kong 31July Break 7August Linguists choosing the wrong side: Jacob van Ginneken and other alleged Nazi collaboratorsToon Van HalUniversity of Leuven 14August Der Artikel

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Program April–July

Welcome to History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences! This is a new blog devoted to exploring and promoting the incredible diversity that exists in the study of language, both in the past and today. We publish a new post

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