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The evolution of language : proceedings of the 8th International Conference (EVOLANG8), Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 April 2010 /

This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG8), held in Utrecht on 14-17 April 2010. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplin...

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Автор-организации: International Conference on the Evolution of Language Utrecht, Netherlands)
Други автори: Smith, Andrew D. M.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ℗♭2010.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Evolution of language.
Съдържание:
  • Is grammaticalization glossogenetic? / Giorgos P. Argyropoulos
  • Mythology and the evolution of language / Alan Barnard
  • Symmetrical artefacts, internal reward and language precursors in the head / Brian Bayly
  • Linguistic adaptation at work? The change of word order and case system from Latin to the Romance languages / Christian Bentz, Morten H. Christiansen
  • Invariants and variation in biology and language evolution / Robert C. Berwick
  • From neurons to signs / Denis Bouchard
  • Cultural ratcheting results primarily from semantic compression / Joanna J. Bryson
  • Iterated learning of multiple languages from multiple teachers / David Burkett, Thomas L. Griffiths
  • On protolinguistic 'fossils' : subject-verb vs. verb-subject structures / Eugenia Casielles, Ljiljana Progovac
  • Numerosity, abstraction, and the emergence of metaphor in language / Frederick L. Coolidge, Thomas Wynn
  • Self-organization and emergence in language, a case study for color / Joachim De Beule, Joris Bleys
  • Prosodic features in northern Muriquis vocalizations / Didier Demolin, Cesar Ades, Fransisco D.C. Mendes
  • Have you anything unexpected to say? The human propensity to communicate surprise and its role in the emergence of language / Jean-Louis Dessalles
  • The innateness of language : a view from genetics / Karl C. Diller, Rebecca L. Cann
  • A new theory of language and its implications for the question of evolution / Daniel Dor, Eva Jablonka
  • Horizontal transmission of call features in killer whale dialects / Olga A. Filatova, Erich Hoyt, Alexandr M. Burdin
  • Information and influence in animal communication / Julia Fischer, Kurt Hammerschmidt
  • A molecular genetic framework for testing hypotheses about language evolution / W. Tecumseh Fitch, Michael A. Arbib, Merlin Donald
  • Emergence of Aktionsarten : the first step towards aspect / Kateryna Gerasymova
  • Talking about birds, bees, and primates too. Implications for language evolution / Kathleen R. Gibson
  • The effect of social popularities on linguistic categorization / Tao Gong
  • Exploring the roles of major forms of cultural transmission in language evolution / Tao Gong
  • How To identify the units, levels and mechanisms of language evolution / Nathalie Gontier
  • Linguistic analogy for creativity and the origin of language / Takashi Hashimoto, Masaya Nakatsuka, Takeshi Konno
  • Applications of the price equation to language evolution / Gerhard Ja˜ger
  • Interplay between language, navigation and kin selection / Dimitar Kazakov
  • Children learn sound symbolic words better : evolutionary vestige of sound symbolic proto language / Sotaro Kita, Katerina Kantartzis, Mutsumi Imai
  • A sensorimotor characterisation of syntax, and its implications for models of language evolution / Alistair Knott
  • Why robots? / Martin Loetzsch, Michael Spranger
  • Linguistic arguments probably antedate linguistic predicates / Erkki Luuk
  • Towards a simulation model of dialogical alignment / Alexander Mehler [and others]
  • Evolution of grammatical forms / Mieko Ogura, William S-Y Wang
  • The silence of the stones : on the archaeological record for (Neandertal) language / Wil Roebroeks
  • Minimum description length and generalization in the evolution of language / Giancarlo Schrementi, Michael Gasser
  • Thoughts on evolution of language from the point of view of brain neuroanatomy and development, and object-oriented programming / H. Lee Seldon
  • The evolution of segmentation and sequencing : evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan sign language / Ann Senghas, Asli O˜zyu˜rek, Susan Goldin-Meadow
  • Exploring the nature of a systematicity bias : an experimental study / Andrew D.M. Smith, Barbora Skarabela, Monica Tamariz
  • Open-ended semantics CO-evolving with spatial language / Michael Spranger, Simon Pauw, Martin Loetzsch
  • Lost in a linguistic jungle : what's in the language faculty? / Maggie Tallerman
  • The role of practice and literacy in the evolution of linguistic structure / Monica Tamariz, J. Erin Brown, Keelin M. Murray
  • Acquisition preferences for negative concord / Jacqueline van Kampen
  • The predicability tree. How, and why? / Robert van Rooij
  • Strategy competition in the evolution of pronouns : a case-study of Spanish Le♯łsmo, La♯łsmo and Lo♯łsmo / Remi van Trijp
  • Priming through constructional dependencies : a case study in fluid construction grammar / Pieter Wellens, Joachim De Beule
  • The moving target argument and the speed of evolution / Bodo Winter
  • What is special about the language faculty, and how did it get that way? / Stephen R. Anderson
  • On the origin of universal categorization patterns : an in-silica experiment / Andrea Baronchelli [and others]
  • Coordination of language strategies based on communicative fitness / Joris Bleys
  • Samplers, maximisers and the cultural evolutionary dynamics of language / Richard A. Blythe
  • Acoustic variability in nonhuman primates : individuality and social context / Hele€ne Bouchet, Catherine Blois-Heulin, Alban Lemasson
  • Contexts of language diversity / Ingar Brinck
  • Coordinated multi-modal expression and embodied meaning in the emergence of symbolic communication / J. Erin Brown
  • Do ape gestures have specific meanings? Shifting the focus from flexibility to semanticity / Erica A. Cartmill, Richard W. Byrne
  • Brains, genes and language evolution / Morten H. Christiansen
  • Could evo-devo save Chomsky from the evolutionary paradox? / Hangjun Chu
  • Gestural communication in human children : ontogenetic perspective in favour of the gestural hypothesis of language origin / Hele€ne Cochet, Jacques Vauclair
  • The path from point A to point B : how gestures became language in Nicaraguan signing / Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas
  • The emergence of structure from sequence memory constraints in cultural transmission / Hannah Cornish, Morten H. Christiansen, Simon Kirby
  • Cross-modality : reviving iconicity in the evolution of language / Christine Cuskley, Simon Kirby, Julia Simner
  • Squiggle : large-scale social emergence of simple symbols / Rick Dale, Gary Lupyan
  • Using software agents to investigate the interactive origins of communication systems / Pieter de Bie [and others]
  • The perceptual effect of air sacs / Bart de Boer
  • The influence of language on concept formation in artificial agents / Joachim de Greeff, Frederic Delaunay, Tony Belpaeme
  • Recreating duality of patterning in the laboratory : a new experimental paradigm for studying emergence of sublexical structure / Alex del Giudice, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden
  • From hand to mouth : an experimental simulation of language origin / Nicolas Fay, Stephanie Lim
  • Does input matter? : gesture and homesign in Nicaragua, China, Turkey, and the USA / Molly Flaherty, Susan Goldin-Meadow
  • Deception, tells, and the evolution of combinatorial communication / Jacob G. Foster, Matthew Slayton
  • The evolution of semantics : a meeting of minds / Peter Ga˜rdenfors
  • Does deixis precede vocabulary development in language-trained apes? / Kristen Gillespie-Lynch [and others]
  • Why ape-human similarities and learning mechanisms are important : a developmental and cladistic approach to the evolution of language / Patricia M. Greenfield
  • Evolving linguistic competence in the absence of performance / Marc D. Hauser
  • Simulating Creole and dialect formation / Zena Hira, Mark Bartlett
  • Ecological and sexual explanations for larynx lowering / Jean-Marie Hombert
  • Observing the birth of phonology / Assaf Israel, Wendy Sandler
  • Relaxation of selection can lead to signal variations : an example in birdsong / Hiroko Kagawa [and others]
  • The co-involvement of hands and mouth in utterance construction : implications for language origins theories / Adam Kendon
  • Relationship between iconic gestures and sound symbolic words : evidence for multimodal protolanguage / Sotaro Kita [and others]
  • Cooperative breeding models : implications for the evolution of language / Chris Knight, Camilla Power
  • Contributions of aphasiology to language evolution research / Andreas Kyriacou, Sverker Johansson
  • How important are words for conceptual coordination? / Cyprian Laskowski, Martin Pickering
  • Vocal abilities in a group of nonhuman primates / Alban Lemasson, Klaus Zuberbu˜hler
  • Vocal deception from a hunter-gatherer perspective / Jerome Lewis, Chris Knight
  • The emergence of self-organization in language : evidence from English word formation / Mark Lindsay, Mark Aronoff
  • Beyond communication : language modulates visual processing / Gary Lupyan
  • Declaratives in apes : impact of environment on purely infomative communications / Heidi Lyn [and others]
  • Languages as evolutionary aggregates / Luke McCrohon
  • 3D-morphometric and acoustic analysis of chimpanzee and human vocal tracts, and their use in the reconstruction of Neanderthal vocal tracts and their acoustic potential / Sandra Martelli [and others]
  • The cultural evolution of language in a world of continuous meanings / Cristina Matthews, Simon Kirby, Hannah Cornish
  • Investigation of gestural vs vocal origins of language in nonhuman primates : distinguishing comprehension and production of signals / Adrien Meguerditchian, Jacques Vauclair
  • The interaction of animacy and word order in human languages : a study of strategies in a novel communication task / Irit Meir [and others]
  • On the track of the origin of language : a comparative study quantifying hand preference in object manipulation and gestural communication in non human primates / Hele€ne Meunier, Jacques Vauclair
  • A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study of brain lateralisation in stone tool making and language / Georg Meyer, Sophie Wuerger, Natalie Uomini
  • The evolution of information structure / Vanessa Micelli
  • A missing link in the cultural evolution of language : connecting sequential ...
  • Balancing arbitrariness and systematicity in language evolution / Padraic Monaghan, Morten H. Christiansen, Stanka Fitneva
  • Speaker-independent perception of human speech by zebra finches / Verena R. Ohms [and others]
  • An avian model for language evolution / Irene Pepperberg
  • Grooming gestures of chimpanzees in the wild : first insights into meaning and function / Simone Pika, Chris Knight
  • The relevance ofthe developmental stress hypothesis to the evolution of language / Anne Pritchard
  • Co-evolution of language and social network structure through cultural transmission / Justin Quillinan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
  • The origins of sociolinguistic marking and its role in language divergence : an experimental study / Gareth Roberts
  • Considering language evolution from birdsong development / Kazutoshi Sasahara [and others]
  • Semantic bootstrapping of grammar in embodied robots / Yo Sato, Joe Saunders
  • Why do wild chimpanzees produce food-associated calls : a case of vocal grooming? / Anne Schel, Klaus Zuberbu˜hler, Katie E. Slocombe
  • The importance of exploring non-linguistic functions of human brain language areas for explaining language evolution / P. Thomas Schoenemann
  • Language evolution : the view from adult second language learners / Marieke Schouwstra
  • The evolution of communication and relevance / Thomas Scoff-Phillips
  • Pragmatics not semantics as the basis for clause structure / Thomas Scoff-Phillips [and others]
  • Production of the vowels /a, i, u/ based on an articulatory model of feeding / Antoine Serrurier, Anna Barney
  • Vocal or gestural? What empirical comparative evidence can and cannot currently tell us about language evolution / Katie E. Slocombe, Bridget Waller, Katja Liebal
  • Regularisation of unpredictable variation through itertated learning / Kenny Smith, Elizabeth Wonnacott
  • Implausibly cooperative robots meet their selfish gene counterparts / Luc Steels, Chris Knight
  • Identifying selective pressures in language evolution : Polya urns and the price equation / Monica Tamariz
  • What are the analogues of genotype and phenotype in the cultural evolution of language? / Monica Tamariz
  • Acoustic potential for reference-like communication in wild indris / Valeria Torti [and others]
  • Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by songbirds : a case study on zebra finches / Caroline A.A. van Heijningen [and others]
  • The critical period and preservation of emerged vowel systems / Tessa Verhoef, Bart de Boer
  • Simulations of socio-linguistic change : implications for unidirectionality / Maarten Versteegh, Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema
  • Lessons for evolution from first language development / Marilyn Vihman
  • The relevance of body language to evolution of language research / Slawomir Wacewicz, Przemyslaw Z‡ywiczynski
  • Vocal and facial productions in nonhuman primates : do they express emotions or language related treatments? / Catherine Wallez, Jacques Vauclair
  • Language as extended phenotype? / Dennis Waters
  • Reconsidering the code model of communication for simulations of language evolution / Matthijs Westera
  • Cultural evolution of bird song and genetic degradation of learning bias / Hajime Yamauchi, Terrence W. Deacon, Kazuo Okanoya
  • Optimality and teleomatic causes in the faculty of language / Hajime Yamauchi, Kazuo Okanoya
  • From body to mouth (and body) / Jordan Zlatev, Merlin Donald, Go˜ran Sonesson.