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CONFERENCE BOOKLET
Department of English and American Studies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Information ...................................................................................................................................................2
Timetable ......................................................................................................................................................3
Conference Programme ............................................................................................................................ 4
Plenary Abstracts ......................................................................................................................................... 11
List of Posters ..............................................................................................................................................15
Social Programme ..................................................................................................................................... 16
Restaurants & Lunch ..................................................................................................................................17
10th Evolang Birthday Party ....................................................................................................................... 18
Practical Information ................................................................................................................................. 19
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INFORMATION
Information desk
The registration & information desk will be open throughout the conference. If you have any questions, please don‘t hesitate to ask us.
Meeting point
The general meeting point for social activities, etc. is the “Inukshuk” (stone statue) in front of the department.
Address
Department of English and American StudiesCampus of the University of ViennaSpitalgasse 2Hof/Court 8, Entrance 8.31090 Vienna
Local organizing committee
Nikolaus RittAndreas BaumannKlaus HofmannElnora ten WoldeMaria ValenciaLotti ViolaIris VukovicsEva Zehentner
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pril
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day,
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pril
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nesd
ay, 1
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pril
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sday
, 17
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ksho
ps
Plen
ary
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y 4
Plen
ary
6
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Coff
ee B
reak
Coff
ee B
reak
Coff
ee B
reak
10:00
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Pape
r Ses
sion
2Pa
per S
essi
on 5
Pape
r Ses
sion
8
10:30
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11:00
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11:15
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11:45
11:45
12:00
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12:15
12:30
Lunc
hPo
ster
Ses
sion
& L
unch
Plen
ary
7
12:30
12:45
12:45
13:00
13:00
13:15
13:15
13:30
Clos
ing
Sess
ion
13:30
13:45
Lunc
h
13:45
14:00
Plen
ary
3
Post
-con
fere
nce
activ
ites
City
tour
Coff
ee h
ouse
tour
Leop
old
Mus
eum
Schö
nbru
nn Z
oo
Wie
nerw
ald
wal
king
tour
14:00
14:15
14:15
14:30
Plen
ary
5
14:30
14:45
14:45
15:00
Ope
ning
Ses
sion
15:00
15:15
Pape
r Ses
sion
3
15:15
15:30
Plen
ary
1
15:30
15:45
Pape
r Ses
sion
6
15:45
16:00
16:00
16:15
16:15
16:30
Coff
ee B
reak
16:30
16:45
Coff
ee B
reak
& B
ook
Laun
chCo
ffee
Bre
ak16:45
17:00
Pape
r Ses
sion
I
17:00
17:15
Pape
r Ses
sion
4Pa
per S
essi
on 7
17:15
17:30
17:30
17:45
17:45
18:00
18:00
18:15
18:15
18:30
18:30
18:45
Bus
ines
s M
eetin
g18:45
19:00
Conf
eren
ce D
inne
r
19:00
19:15
19:15
19:30
Rece
ptio
n Ci
ty H
all
20:3
0 E
VOLA
NG
Birt
hday
Par
ty19:30
4
CON
FER
ENCE
PR
OG
RA
MM
E
AB
CD
E0
9:0
0W
orks
hop
Conv
enor
s:Ca
rel t
en C
ate,
Will
em Z
uide
ma
The
com
para
tive
biol
ogy
of
artifi
cial
gra
mm
ar le
arni
ng
Wor
ksho
p
Conv
enor
s:Lu
c St
eels
, Fre
ek V
an d
e Ve
lde,
Re
mi v
an T
rijp
How
gra
mm
atic
aliz
atio
n
proc
esse
s cr
eate
gra
mm
ar:
From
his
toric
al c
orpu
s da
ta to
ag
ent-
base
d m
odel
s
Wor
ksho
p
Conv
enor
s:B
art d
e B
oer,
Tess
a Ve
rhoe
f
Evol
utio
n of
sig
nals
, spe
ech
an
d si
gns
Wor
ksho
p
Conv
enor
s:A
ndre
a R
avig
nani
, Bru
no G
ingr
as
EvoM
us: T
he e
volu
tion
of
lang
uage
and
mus
ic in
a
com
para
tive
pers
pect
ive
Wor
ksho
p
Conv
enor
s:M
elan
ie M
alza
hn, N
ikol
aus
Ritt
Evol
utio
nary
ling
uist
ics
and
hi
stor
ical
lang
uage
stu
dies
09
:00
11:15
Coff
ee B
reak
11:15
11:4
5
Wor
ksho
ps c
ontin
ued
11:4
5
13:4
5
Lunc
h
13:4
5
Mon
day,
14 A
pril
2014
5
AB
CD
E15
:00
Ope
ning
Ses
sion
Vice
Rec
tor S
usan
ne W
eige
lin-S
chw
iedr
zik,
Dea
n M
atth
ias
Mey
er, H
ead
of D
epar
tmen
t Bar
bara
Sei
dlho
fer &
Nik
olau
s R
itt
15:0
0
15:3
0Jim
Hur
ford
Wha
t I h
ave
lear
ned
abou
t lan
guag
e ev
olut
ion
in 2
0 y
ears
, and
que
stio
ns th
at I
hope
to s
ee a
nsw
ered
in th
e ne
xt 2
0
Chris
Kni
ght
Lang
uage
orig
ins:
not
just
evo
lutio
n bu
t rev
olut
ion
Chai
r: M
aggi
e Ta
llerm
an
15:3
0
16:3
0Co
ffee
Bre
ak16
:30
17:0
0Ch
air:
Mag
gie
Talle
rman
Chai
r: B
art d
e B
oer
Chai
r: O
lga
Fehe
rCh
air:
Sean
Rob
erts
Chai
r: Ke
nny
Smith
17:0
0
Salik
oko
S. M
ufw
ene
Wha
t Dw
ight
L. B
olin
ger p
roba
bly
wou
ld h
ave
cont
ribut
ed to
ev
olut
iona
ry li
ngui
stic
s
Olg
a Va
sile
va
Dev
elop
men
t of l
angu
age
thro
ugh
shar
ed in
tent
iona
lity
and
ca
tego
rizat
ion
Pier
a Fi
lippi
, Bru
no G
ingr
as,
W. T
ecum
seh
Fitc
h
The
effe
ct o
f pitc
h en
hanc
emen
t on
spok
en la
ngua
ge a
cqui
sitio
n
Dam
ian
Bla
si, M
orte
n H
. Ch
ristia
nsen
, Soe
ren
Wic
hman
n,
Har
ald
Ham
mar
stro
m, P
eter
Sta
dler
Soun
d sy
mbo
lism
and
the
orig
ins
of
lang
uage
Ris
hira
j Sah
a Ro
y, D
asta
giri
Redd
y,
Nilo
y G
angu
ly, M
onoj
it Ch
oudh
ury
Und
erst
andi
ng th
e lin
guis
tic
stru
ctur
e an
d ev
olut
ion
of w
eb
sear
ch q
uerie
s
17:3
0
Hei
di L
yn
Com
para
tive
psyc
holo
gy a
nd th
e ev
olut
ion
of la
ngua
ge:
Met
hodo
logy
mat
ters
Will
em Z
uide
ma
Requ
irem
ents
on
scen
ario
s fo
r the
ev
olut
ion
of la
ngua
ge a
nd c
ogni
tion
Dan
iel L
. Bow
ling,
Chr
istia
n T.
Her
bst,
W. T
ecum
seh
Fitc
h
Soci
al o
rigin
s of
rhyt
hm?
Sync
hron
y an
d te
mpo
ral r
egul
arity
in h
uman
vo
caliz
atio
n
Just
in S
ulik
Sym
bolis
atio
n an
d co
gniti
on
Till
Ber
gman
n, R
ick
Dal
e,
Gar
y Lu
pyan
Info
rmat
iona
l str
uctu
re o
f an
emer
ging
com
mun
icat
ion
syst
em is
sh
aped
by
its e
nviro
nmen
t
17:3
0
18:0
0
Koji
Fujit
a
Four
wro
ng id
eas
in e
volu
tiona
ry
lingu
istic
s
Mau
ricio
Mar
tins
Recu
rsio
n is
not
lang
uage
do
mai
n-sp
ecifi
c: In
terim
resu
lts o
f a
rese
arch
pro
gram
Mic
helle
Spi
erin
gs, C
arel
Ten
Cat
e
Pros
odic
cue
wei
ghtin
g by
Ze
bra
Finc
hes
Mut
sum
i Im
ai, M
ichi
ko A
sano
, G
uilla
ume
Thie
rry,
Kei
ichi
Kita
jo,
Hiro
yuki
Oka
da, S
otar
o Ki
ta
Soun
d sy
mbo
lism
and
arb
itrar
y so
und-
mea
ning
rela
tions
hips
in
lang
uage
Sim
on K
irby,
Han
nah
Corn
ish,
Ke
nny
Smith
Syst
ems
emer
ge: T
he c
ultu
ral
evol
utio
n of
inte
rdep
ende
nt
sequ
entia
l beh
avio
urs
in th
e la
b
18:0
0
18:3
0
Dill
on N
iede
rhut
The
phon
ator
y cu
lture
hyp
othe
sis
Erkk
i Luu
k, H
endr
ik L
uuk
The
emer
genc
e of
co
mpo
und
sign
als
Jace
k W
ilczy
nski
, Sła
wom
ir
Wac
ewic
z, P
rzem
ysła
w Z
ywic
zyns
ki
The
influ
ence
of m
usic
on
the
perc
eptio
n of
em
otio
ns in
voi
ce
sam
ples
: Evo
lutio
nary
impl
icat
ions
Den
is B
ouch
ard
Sign
-the
ory
and
the
orig
in o
f la
ngua
ge
Nic
olas
Fay
, T. M
ark
Ellis
on,
Ric
card
o Fu
saro
li, K
ristia
n Ty
len
The
cum
ulat
ive
cultu
ral e
volu
tion
of
an in
stru
ctio
n la
ngua
ge
18:3
0
19:3
0Re
cept
ion
City
Hal
l19
:30
6
AB
CD
09
:00
Robe
rt B
oyd,
Sar
ah M
athe
w
Reci
proc
ity, t
hird
-par
ty p
unis
hmen
t and
the
evol
utio
n of
hum
an la
ngua
ge
Chai
r: Ke
nny
Smith
09
:00
10:0
0Co
ffee
Bre
ak10
:00
10:3
0Ch
air:
Salik
oko
S. M
ufw
ene
Chai
r: Ka
trie
n B
euls
Chai
r: W
. Tec
umse
h Fi
tch
Chai
r: Er
ica
Cart
mill
10:3
0
Erin
Bro
wn,
Jord
an Z
late
v
Brid
ging
the
gap:
Fro
m b
odily
m
imes
is to
spe
ech
Mar
cus
Perlm
an, R
ick
Dal
e, G
ary
Lupy
an
Itera
tive
voca
l cha
rade
s: T
he e
mer
genc
e of
co
nven
tions
in v
ocal
com
mun
icat
ion
And
rea
Rav
igna
ni, D
anie
l L. B
owlin
g,
Sim
on K
irby
The
psyc
holo
gy o
f bio
logi
cal c
lock
s: A
new
fr
amew
ork
for t
he e
volu
tion
of rh
ythm
Rola
nd M
ühle
nber
nd, D
ankm
ar E
nke
Mod
ality
sw
itch
in h
uman
la
ngua
ge e
volu
tion
11:0
0
Bar
t de
Boe
r
Bio
logi
cal a
dapt
atio
n to
cul
tura
l tra
its
Mar
ieke
Woe
nsdr
egt,
Will
em Z
uide
ma
Neu
ral n
etw
orks
, alg
ebra
ic ru
les
&
hum
an u
niqu
enes
s
Yose
f Pra
t, M
or T
aub,
Yos
si Y
ovel
The
role
of v
ocal
lear
ning
in th
e ac
oust
ic
com
mun
icat
ion
of th
e Eg
yptia
n fr
uit b
at
Gar
eth
Robe
rts,
Bru
no G
alan
tucc
i
The
effe
ct o
f ico
nici
ty o
n th
e
emer
genc
e of
com
bina
toria
l str
uctu
re:
An
expe
rimen
tal s
tudy
11:0
0
11:30
Sver
ker J
ohan
sson
Did
lang
uage
evo
lve
inco
mm
unic
ado?
And
reea
Gea
mba
su, M
iche
lle S
pier
ings
, Cl
ara
Leve
lt, C
arel
Ten
Cat
e
Art
ifici
al G
ram
mar
Lea
rnin
g in
infa
nts,
ad
ults
, and
son
gbird
s: W
hat i
s sh
ared
, w
hat i
s le
arne
d?
Mar
co G
amba
, Val
eria
Tor
ti, G
iova
nna
B
onad
onna
, Gre
gorio
Guz
zo,
Cris
tina
Gia
com
a
Ove
rlapp
ing
and
sync
hron
izat
ion
in th
e so
ng
of th
e In
dris
(Ind
ri In
dri)
Julio
San
tiago
, Mon
ica
Tam
ariz
, G
abrie
lla V
iglio
cco,
Dav
id V
inso
n
The
role
of i
coni
city
in th
e ev
olut
ion
of
lingu
istic
str
uctu
re
11:30
12:0
0
Mag
gie
Talle
rman
Is th
e sy
ntax
rubi
con
mor
e of
a m
irage
?
Mat
thew
Spi
ke, K
evin
Sta
dler
, Sim
on K
irby,
Ke
nny
Smith
Min
imal
requ
irem
ents
for t
he e
mer
genc
e of
le
arne
d si
gnal
ling
Olg
a Fe
her,
Iva
Ljub
icic
, Ken
ta S
uzuk
i, Ka
zuo
Oka
noya
, Ofe
r Tch
erni
chov
ski
Bird
s tu
tore
d w
ith th
eir o
wn
deve
lopi
ng s
ong
prod
uce
norm
al s
ong
as a
dults
Eliz
abet
h Irv
ine
Wha
t ico
nici
ty c
an a
nd c
anno
t do
for
prot
o-la
ngua
ge
12:0
0
12:3
0Lu
nch
12:3
0
14:0
0A
nn S
engh
as
Reca
pitu
latio
n? L
inks
bet
wee
n la
ngua
ge a
cqui
sitio
n, e
mer
genc
e, a
nd e
volu
tion
Chai
r: W
. Tec
umse
h Fi
tch
14:0
0
Tues
day,
15 A
pril
2014
7
AB
CD
15:15
Chai
r: H
eidi
Lyn
Chai
r: W
illem
Zui
dem
aCh
air:
Ram
on F
erre
r-i-
Canc
hoCh
air:
Mon
ica
Tam
ariz
15:15
Cath
erin
e H
obai
ter,
Ric
hard
Byr
ne,
Klau
s Zu
berb
uhle
r
Mul
timod
al c
omm
unic
atio
n in
w
ild C
him
panz
ees
Emili
a G
arci
a Ca
sade
mon
t, Lu
c St
eels
Stra
tegi
es fo
r the
em
erge
nce
of fi
rst-
orde
r co
nstit
uent
str
uctu
re
Tess
a Ve
rhoe
f, B
art d
e B
oer
Itera
ted
lear
ning
of s
ound
sys
tem
s an
d th
e em
erge
nce
of to
ne c
ateg
orie
s
Ann
emar
ie V
erke
rk, A
ndre
ea C
alud
e,
Mar
k Pa
gel
Sele
ctio
n in
the
lexi
con
15:4
5
Katja
Lie
bal
A m
ultim
odal
per
spec
tive
on
ape
com
mun
icat
ion
Ric
hard
A. B
lyth
e, T
hom
as S
cott
-Phi
llips
The
orig
ins
of c
ombi
nato
rial c
omm
unic
atio
n
Mol
ly F
lahe
rty,
Sus
an G
oldi
n-M
eado
w,
Ann
Sen
ghas
, Mar
ie C
oppo
la, L
ila G
leitm
an
Lang
uage
from
ges
ture
?
Emer
gent
tran
sitiv
ity m
arki
ng in
N
icar
agua
n Si
gn L
angu
age
Ala
n N
iels
en, S
imon
Kirb
y, K
enny
Sm
ith
Mot
ivat
ed v
s. c
onve
ntio
nal s
yste
mat
icity
: Im
plic
atio
ns fo
r lan
guag
e le
arni
ng a
nd
the
stru
ctur
e of
the
lexi
con
15:4
5
16:15
Adrie
n M
egue
rditc
hian
, Mar
ie P
louv
ier,
Jil
l D. P
ruet
z, W
illia
m D
. Hop
kins
From
han
d to
mou
th: F
ine
prec
isio
n gr
ip
durin
g m
utua
l gro
omin
g el
icite
d w
ide
lip
mov
emen
ts in
wild
Fon
goli
chim
panz
ees
Han
nah
Litt
le, B
art d
e B
oer
The
effe
ct o
f siz
e of
art
icul
atio
n sp
ace
on th
e em
erge
nce
of c
ombi
nato
rial s
truc
ture
Rem
i van
Trij
p
Fitn
ess
land
scap
es in
cul
tura
l lan
guag
e ev
olut
ion:
A c
ase
stud
y on
Ger
man
defi
nite
ar
ticle
s
Luke
McC
roho
n
Cultu
re v
s. B
iolo
gy: A
dver
saria
l coe
volu
tion
durin
g th
e ev
olut
ion
of th
e le
xico
n
16:15
16:4
5Co
ffee
Bre
ak &
Boo
k La
unch
Jim H
urfo
rd: T
he o
rigin
s of
lang
uage
. A s
lim g
uide
16:4
5
17:15
Chai
r: Jim
Hur
ford
Chai
r: R
icha
rd A
. Bly
the
Chai
r: Re
mi v
an T
rijp
Chai
r: Lu
ke M
cCro
hon
17:15
Case
y Li
ster
, Nic
olas
Fay
, T. M
ark
Ellis
on,
Susa
n G
oldi
n-M
eado
w
Get
ting
com
mun
icat
ion
star
ted:
The
su
perio
rity
of g
estu
re o
ver n
on-l
ingu
istic
vo
caliz
atio
n
Vane
ssa
Ferd
inan
d, S
imon
Kirb
y,
Kenn
y Sm
ith
Regu
lariz
atio
n in
lang
uage
evo
lutio
n: O
n th
e jo
int c
ontr
ibut
ion
of d
omai
n-sp
ecifi
c bi
ases
an
d do
mai
n-ge
nera
l fre
quen
cy le
arni
ng
Nik
las
Joha
nsso
n, G
erd
Carli
ng,
Art
hur H
olm
er, J
oost
Van
de
Wei
jer,
Jo
rdan
Zla
tev
Trac
ing
lang
uage
prim
itive
s: P
hono
sem
antic
re
aliz
atio
n of
fund
amen
tal o
ppos
ition
al p
airs
Catr
iona
Silv
ey
Wor
ds a
rise
as p
redi
ctiv
e cu
es li
nkin
g
utte
ranc
e co
mpr
ehen
sion
and
wor
ld
know
ledg
e
17:4
5
Dav
id L
eave
ns, J
ared
Tag
liala
tela
, W
illia
m D
. Hop
kins
From
gra
spin
g to
gro
omin
g to
gos
sip
Raq
uel G
. Alh
ama,
Rem
ko S
cha,
W
illem
Zui
dem
a
Rul
e le
arni
ng in
hum
ans
and
anim
als
Stef
an H
artm
ann
A c
onst
ruct
ioni
st a
ppro
ach
to th
e ev
olut
ion
of
mor
phol
ogic
al c
ompl
exity
Pier
ce E
dmin
ston
, Gar
y Lu
pyan
Wor
ds a
s un
mot
ivat
ed c
ues
17:4
5
18:15
Lari
Vain
io, M
ikko
Tia
inen
, K
aisa
Tiip
pana
, Mar
tti V
aini
o
On
the
rela
tions
bet
wee
n ar
ticul
ator
y
gest
ures
and
man
ual g
rasp
ing
Jiani
Che
n, N
aom
i Jan
sen,
Car
el T
en C
ate
Zebr
a fin
ches
can
lear
n to
reco
gniz
e
affixa
tions
Ram
on F
erre
r-i-
Canc
ho
Why
mig
ht b
e SO
V in
itial
ly p
refe
rred
and
then
lo
st o
r rec
over
ed?
A th
eore
tical
fram
ewor
k
Mon
ica
Tam
ariz
, Sim
on K
irby
Cultu
re: C
opyi
ng, c
ompr
essi
on a
nd
conv
entio
nalit
y
18:15
18:4
5B
usin
ess
Mee
ting
(Roo
m A
)18
:45
8
AB
CD
09
:00
Bill
Cro
ft
Evol
utio
nary
ling
uist
ics
and
the
evol
utio
n of
lang
uage
Chai
r: M
elan
ie M
alza
hn
09
:00
10:0
0
Coff
ee B
reak
10:0
0
10:3
0Ch
air:
Dan
Ded
iuCh
air:
Care
l Ten
Cat
eCh
air:
Han
nah
Corn
ish
Chai
r: Jim
Hur
ford
10:3
0
Ann
elie
se K
uhle
Patt
erns
of v
aria
tion
in la
ngua
ge a
nd to
ol u
se:
An
ethn
ogra
phic
and
com
para
tive
appr
oach
Mic
hael
Fra
nke
Crea
tive
com
posi
tiona
lity
from
rein
forc
emen
t le
arni
ng in
sig
nalin
g ga
mes
Mie
ko O
gura
, Tak
umi I
naka
zu,
Will
iam
S-Y
. Wan
g
Evol
utio
n of
tens
e an
d as
pect
Mar
ieke
Sch
ouw
stra
Abo
ut ti
me:
Sem
antic
str
uctu
re in
em
ergi
ng la
ngua
ge
11:0
0
Jean
-Lou
is D
essa
lles
The
role
of t
he h
uman
pol
itica
l sin
gula
rity
in
the
emer
genc
e of
lang
uage
Yau
Wai
Lam
, Tao
Gon
g
Gra
spin
g co
mpo
sitio
nal p
atte
rn in
an
ar
tifici
al la
ngua
ge b
y Ch
ines
e pa
rtic
ipan
ts
Stef
an H
artm
ann,
Mic
hael
Ple
yer
A m
atte
r of p
ersp
ectiv
e: V
iew
poin
t ph
enom
ena
in th
e ev
olut
ion
of g
ram
mar
Bod
o W
inte
r, G
raha
m T
hom
pson
, M
atth
ias
Urb
an
Cogn
itive
fact
ors
mot
ivat
ing
the
evol
utio
n of
wor
d m
eani
ngs:
Evi
denc
e fr
om c
orpo
ra,
beha
vior
al d
ata
and
ency
clop
edic
ne
twor
k st
ruct
ure
11:0
0
11:30
Mar
tin E
dwar
des
Wha
t wer
e w
e ta
lkin
g ab
out?
Exc
hang
ing
soci
al m
odel
s as
a ro
ute
to la
ngua
ge
Bill
Tho
mps
on, C
atrio
na S
ilvey
, Sim
on K
irby,
Ke
nny
Smith
The
effe
ct o
f com
mun
icat
ion
on c
ateg
ory
stru
ctur
e
Katr
ien
Beu
ls
Spira
ls in
lang
uage
evo
lutio
n
Piet
er W
elle
ns
Adap
tive
stra
tegi
es in
the
orig
ins
of
sem
antic
cat
egor
ies
11:30
12:0
0
Chris
Kni
ght,
Jero
me
Lew
is
Hun
ter-
gath
erer
ega
litar
iani
sm
enab
led
gram
mar
to e
volv
e
Dim
itar K
azak
ov, M
ark
Bar
tlett
Evol
utio
nary
pat
hs to
com
posi
tiona
l lan
guag
e
Dek
ai W
u
The
mag
ic n
umbe
r 4: E
volu
tiona
ry
pres
sure
s on
sem
antic
fram
e st
ruct
ure
Mic
hael
Spr
ange
r
Incr
emen
tal r
ecru
itmen
t lan
guag
e -
A
form
alis
m fo
r evo
lutio
nary
sem
antic
s
12:0
0
12:3
0
Post
er S
essi
on &
Lun
ch
12:3
0
Wed
nesd
ay, 1
6 A
pril
2014
9
AB
CD
14:3
0
Joan
Silk
Neg
otia
ting
soci
al b
onds
in b
aboo
ns: T
he ro
le o
f kin
ship
, rec
ipro
city
, and
goo
d in
tent
ions
Chai
r: Er
ica
Cart
mill
14:3
0
15:4
5Ch
air:
Chris
Kni
ght
Chai
r: B
ill C
roft
Chai
r: Ro
bert
Boy
dCh
air:
Ric
hard
Moo
re15
:45
Cam
illa
Pow
er
Fem
ale
philo
patr
y an
d eg
alita
riani
sm a
s co
nditi
ons
for t
he e
mer
genc
e of
in
ters
ubje
ctiv
ity
Caro
line
Kam
ps, V
anes
sa F
erdi
nand
, Si
mon
Kirb
y
The
orig
ins
of re
gula
rity
in la
ngua
ge: W
hy
coor
dina
tion
mat
ters
Chris
tian
Ben
tz, D
ouw
e Ki
ela
Zipf
’s la
w a
cros
s la
ngua
ges
of
the
wor
ld: T
owar
ds a
qua
ntita
tive
m
easu
re o
f syn
thet
icity
Mic
hael
Wils
on, T
. Mar
k El
lison
, Nic
olas
Fay
Sem
antic
cro
wdi
ng tr
igge
rs s
yste
mat
ical
ly
stru
ctur
ed s
ign
syst
ems
16:15
Dan
Ded
iu, S
teph
en L
evin
son
Lang
uage
and
spe
ech
are
old:
A re
view
of t
he
evid
ence
and
con
sequ
ence
s fo
r m
oder
n lin
guis
tic d
iver
sity
Jam
es W
inte
rs, S
imon
Kirb
y, K
enny
Sm
ith
Expe
rimen
tally
inve
stig
atin
g th
e ro
le o
f co
ntex
t in
the
stru
ctur
ing
of th
e lin
guis
tic
syst
em o
ver c
ultu
ral e
volu
tion
Men
g H
an Z
hang
, Tao
Gon
g
Mod
ellin
g la
ngua
ge c
ompe
titio
n w
ithou
t pr
estig
e
Dom
inic
Mitc
hell,
Joan
na B
ryso
n,
Gor
don
Ingr
am
On
the
relia
bilit
y of
unr
elia
ble
info
rmat
ion:
G
ossi
p as
cul
tura
l mem
ory
16:15
16:4
5
Coff
ee B
reak
16:4
5
17:15
And
rey
Vysh
edsk
iy
The
men
tal s
ynth
esis
theo
ry p
redi
cts
the
dual
or
igin
of h
uman
lang
uage
Gre
gory
Mill
s
Esta
blis
hing
a c
omm
unic
atio
n sy
stem
: M
isco
mm
unic
atio
n dr
ives
abs
trac
tion
Chris
tine
Cusk
ley,
Cla
udio
Cas
tella
no,
Fran
cesc
a Co
laio
ri, V
ittor
io L
oret
o, M
artin
a Pu
glie
se, F
ranc
esca
Tria
Freq
uenc
y an
d st
abili
ty o
f lin
guis
tic v
aria
nts
Ann
e Sc
hel,
Zarin
Mac
hand
a,
Sim
on T
owns
end,
Kla
us Z
uber
buhl
er,
Katie
Slo
com
be
Chim
panz
ee fo
od g
runt
s ar
e di
rect
ed a
t sp
ecifi
c in
divi
dual
s: P
recu
rsor
s fo
r tria
dic
com
mun
icat
ion?
17:15
17:4
5
Sean
Rob
erts
, Dan
Ded
iu, S
teph
en L
evin
son
Det
ectin
g di
ffer
ence
s be
twee
n th
e la
ngua
ges
of N
eand
erth
als
and
mod
ern
hum
ans
Jon
Carr
, Han
nah
Corn
ish,
Sim
on K
irby
The
cum
ulat
ive
cultu
ral e
volu
tion
of c
ateg
ory
stru
ctur
e in
an
infin
ite m
eani
ng s
pace
Bra
dley
Wal
ker,
Nic
olas
Fay
, T.
Mar
k El
lison
Freq
uenc
y-de
pend
ent b
ias
affe
cts
the
spre
ad
of h
uman
com
mun
icat
ion
syst
ems
Eric
a Ca
rtm
ill, R
icha
rd B
yrne
Do
talk
to s
tran
gers
: Mat
erna
l and
no
n-m
ater
nal i
nter
actio
n in
the
tr
ansm
issi
on o
f prim
ate
gest
ure
17:4
5
19:0
0Co
nfer
ence
Din
ner
19:0
0
10
AB
CD
09
:00
Mic
hael
Arb
ib
Evol
ving
the
Lang
uage
-Rea
dy B
rain
: The
Cas
e fo
r a C
ompa
rativ
e N
euro
prim
atol
ogy
Chai
r: Jim
Hur
ford
09
:00
10:0
0Co
ffee
Bre
ak10
:00
10:3
0Ch
air:
Jean
-Lou
is D
essa
lles
Chai
r: M
icha
el A
rbib
Chai
r: Lu
c St
eels
Chai
r: Pr
zem
ysła
w Z
ywic
zyns
ki10
:30
Paul
Vog
t, J.
Dou
glas
Mas
tin
Soci
al w
ord
lear
ning
str
ateg
ies
in
diff
eren
t cul
ture
s
Ant
onio
Ben
ítez-
Bur
raco
, Ced
ric B
oeck
x
Lang
uage
dis
orde
rs a
s w
indo
ws
on
lang
uage
evo
lutio
n
Kevi
n St
adle
r, R
icha
rd A
. Bly
the,
Ke
nny
Smith
, Sim
on K
irby
Mom
entu
m-b
ased
lang
uage
cha
nge:
A
non
-ada
ptiv
e m
odel
of d
irect
iona
l sel
ectio
n
Kate
Arn
old,
Kla
us Z
uber
buhl
er
Prim
ate
prag
mat
ics:
Put
ty-N
osed
mon
keys
us
e co
ntex
tual
info
rmat
ion
to d
isam
bigu
ate
the
caus
e of
ala
rm c
alls
11:0
0W
hitn
ey T
abor
, Rus
sell
Ric
hie,
H
arry
Dan
kow
icz
Lang
uage
em
erge
nce
in th
e
labo
rato
ry: A
met
hod
suita
ble
to
dyna
mic
al s
yste
ms
anal
ysis
Gle
n G
reen
, Car
olin
e G
reen
Lang
uage
dev
elop
men
t in
child
ren
with
la
ryng
eal a
bnor
mal
ities
iden
titie
s
prer
equi
site
s fo
r ver
bal p
roto
lang
uage
Mar
tina
Pugl
iese
, Vitt
orio
Lor
eto,
Ch
ristin
e Cu
skle
y, C
laud
io C
aste
llano
, Fr
ance
sca
Cola
iori,
Fra
nces
ca T
ria
The
role
of i
nter
actio
n in
regu
lariz
atio
n
Thom
as S
cott
-Phi
llips
, Max
Bur
ton-
Chel
lew
, St
uart
Wes
t
Han
dica
ps a
re u
nnec
essa
ry fo
r hu
man
com
mun
icat
ion
11:0
0
11:30
Mar
k D
inge
man
se, F
ranc
isco
Tor
reira
, N
.J. E
nfiel
d
Conv
ersa
tiona
l inf
rast
ruct
ure
and
the
conv
erge
nt e
volu
tion
of li
ngui
stic
item
s
Chris
Cod
e
The
diss
olut
ion
of la
ngua
ge &
spe
ech
follo
win
g br
ain
dam
age
Jero
me
Mic
haud
On
the
emer
genc
e of
bili
ngua
lism
in a
co
mm
unic
atio
n “A
LL”
task
as
a re
sult
of
com
petit
ion
betw
een
soci
al c
onfo
rmis
m a
nd
lang
uage
sim
plifi
catio
n
Ric
hard
Moo
re
Is G
ricea
n co
mm
unic
atio
n ne
cess
arily
co
oper
ativ
e?
11:30
12:0
0Fl
oren
cia
Real
i, N
ick
Chat
er,
Mor
ten
Chris
tians
en
The
para
dox
of li
ngui
stic
com
plex
ity
and
com
mun
ity s
ize
Cedr
ic B
oeck
x, A
nton
io B
eníte
z-B
urra
co
A p
ropo
sal c
once
rnin
g th
e ge
ne n
etw
ork
th
at re
gula
tes
the
shap
e of
the
la
ngua
ge-r
eady
bra
in
T. M
ark
Ellis
on, N
icol
as F
ay,
Mon
ica
Tam
ariz
, Dal
e B
arr
Repr
esen
tatio
ns a
re s
elec
ted:
Th
ey d
on’t
just
drif
t
Katie
Slo
com
be, S
imon
Tow
nsen
d, Z
arin
M
acha
nda,
Kla
us Z
uber
buhl
er, A
nne
Sche
l
Inte
ntio
nalit
y in
the
prod
uctio
n of
Ch
impa
nzee
ala
rm c
alls
12:0
0
12:3
0Ke
nny
Smith
Cultu
ral e
volu
tion:
impl
icat
ions
for u
nder
stan
ding
the
hum
an la
ngua
ge fa
culty
and
its
evol
utio
n
Chai
r: N
ikol
aus
Ritt
12:3
0
13:3
0Cl
osin
g Se
ssio
nN
ikol
aus
Ritt
13:3
0
Thur
sday
, 17
Apr
il 20
14
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PLENARY ABSTRACTS
WHAT I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT LANGUAGE EVOLUTION IN 20 YEARS, AND QUESTIONS THAT I HOPE TO SEE ANSWERED IN THE NEXT 20
JAMES R. HURFORD
Twenty years ago, I knew virtually nothing about language evo-lution. Coming from linguistics, and influenced by Pinker and Bloom’s 1990 paper, I assumed that the story would be of the natural selection of a number of abstract principles of an innate universal grammar (UG). Since then,linguists have abandoned the idea of such a rich collection of abstract principles, which makes the steps in language evolution easier to envisage. The remaining operation, Merge, is easier to accommodate to the complexities of languages if one assumes a Construction Grammar approach, according to which humans are capable of massive storage of a range of more or less con-crete constructions, associated with semantic and pragmatic information. Merge operates on constructions. Over time, the constructions got more complex and abstract by cultural pro-cesses of grammaticalization, and the human language capacity co-evolved for faster processing of more complex structures.
In the next twenty years, I hope that progress will be made in documenting the full grammatical/semantic/pragmatic com-plexities of minor languages, before they die out. There will further progress in genetics, with the discovery of more lan-guage-relevant genes and their complex interactions. A single crucial genetic mutation somehow enabling language will not be found. In neuroscience, there will be continued mapping of the complex interdependencies of various parts of language and other human capacities. This will involve study of both normal and pathological cases. Finally, I would like to see a long-range evolutionary study of mechanisms of attention, from origins in creatures only capable of registering a single feature of their envi-ronment, through to humans who are capable of isolating objects and simultaneously tracking up to about four of them.
LANGUAGE ORIGINS: NOT JUST EVOLUTION BUT REVOLUTION
CHRIS KNIGHT
When EVOLANG was first formed in the mid-1990s, archaeol-ogists widely attributed the emergence of human language and symbolic culture to a revolution – ‘the human revolution’, as they called it. The theory was that although modern humans evolved in Africa some 200,000 years ago, they were at this stage only an-atomically modern, accomplishing the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity only on arriving in Europe to spark the Upper Palaleolithic ‘symbolic explosion’ some 40,000 years ago. Since then, archaeologists have been abandoning this theory in droves, some of the most influential titles being ‘Re-thinking the human revolution’ ‘The revolution that wasn’t’ and ‘Down with the revolution’. There can be no doubt that the earlier theory was
incorrect – archaeologists now have abundant evidence for sym-bolic ritual and other complex behaviour stretching far back into the African Middle Stone Age, at least 100,000 years before the Upper Palaeolithic and probably associated with the speciation of Homo sapiens. There is therefore no longer a ‘sapient paradox’ – a disconnect between ‘anatomical’ and ‘behavioural’ moderni-ty. But how far should the pendulum be allowed to swing back toward Darwinian gradualism? Linguists know that language is revolutionary – a mode of cognition and communication utter-ly without precedent in the animal world. The question is not whether there was a revolution, but what kind of revolution it was.
RECIPROCITY, THIRD-PARTY PUNISHMENT AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
ROBERT BOYD & SARAH MATTHEWS
The communication systems of most mammals are based on costly, self-verifying signals. In contrast, human language uses low cost signals that can be recombined to generate an unlimit-ed range of messages making it vulnerable to deceptive signals. It seems likely that repeated interactions coupled with the sanc-tioning of liars controls deception, but there has been little ex-plicit modeling. Here we study the repeated Sir Philip Sydney
Game as a model of the evolution of low cost signaling. We show that when lies are easily detected reciprocity works well to main-tain honest communication. However, when lies are hard to de-tect, the conditions under which reciprocity can maintain honest communication are limited. Adding third-party monitoring and punishment substantially increases the range of parameters al-lowing the evolution of honest signaling.
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EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
BILL CROFT
Evolutionary linguistics is defined here as the employment of evolutionary theories to understand language change (e.g. Croft 2000; Mufwene 2001, 2005, 2008; Ritt 2004). Contemporary pro-cesses of language change differ in a number of crucial ways from the evolutionary origins of language in humans (or hominins). Language change research is focused on changes in linguistic units, whereas language origins research focuses at least as much on the biological evolution of human cognitive and social cog-nitive capacities. Language change research is also blessed with much direct data, while language origins research must rely on fragmentary indirect data, such as fossil and archaeological re-mains, and comparison to primate behavior, nonhuman species communication, and child language development. Is it possible for results drawn from the rich direct data of language change to provide insights into a prehistoric process under very differ-ent biological, cognitive and social conditions? I will explore two such avenues for fruitful interaction between language change and language origins research: an evolutionary framework de-veloped to explain language change, and an understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.The evolutionary framework for language change presented in Croft (2000, 2006) is based on Hull’s (1988, 2001) General Anal-ysis of Selection (GAS), an abstract theory of change by replica-tion that Hull applies to biological evolution and to conceptual change in science, a cultural transmission process like language change. Evolutionary change is a two step process: generation of variation, and selection of variants. Central to GAS is the pos-iting of two distinct roles in the evolutionary process: the rep-licator and the interactor. I argue that linguistic units - tokens of language use, which I called “linguemes” - are the replicators in language change, and speakers function as interactors whose interaction with their social and communicative environment lead to selection of linguemes, that is, language change. The rec-ognition of the two steps of the evolutionary process and the two
distinct roles has a profound impact on understanding language change. Generation of variation involves different mechanisms of change than selection. Replication of linguemes occurs as a much faster rate than human biological generations. The rela-tionship between interactors and replicators allows us to define different types of social selection mechanisms. Recent research on modeling language change suggests that mechanisms and processes specific to replicators are necessary for understanding how languages change; reliance on interactor (speaker) mecha-nisms and processes alone for lingueme selection are insufficient. These results suggest that independent processes associated with replicators probably played a role in the evolution of language from the earliest emergence of those replicators (that is, linguis-tic units).GAS has been challenged as a theory of biological evolution, because its instantiation in biology by Hull is largely (though not completely) neo-Darwinian. Developmental Systems The-ory (DST; Oyama 2000; Griffiths and Gray 1994, 2001) argues against a gene-centric view of biological evolution and argues for viewing evolution as applying to entire developmental systems. GAS and DST are not as incompatible as their adherents claim; DST does suggest a way to address certain problems in my ap-plication of GAS to language change (see Ritt 2004). Replicators and interactors must be treated as parts of a complex adaptive system (CAS) for achieving joint action (Clark 1996; Croft 2000, 2009; Tomasello 1999, 2008). This suggests that the evolutionary origins of language have at least as much to do with the evolution of social cognitive capacity, as Tomasello (2008) argues, as with cognitive capacities of syntactic recombination, memory storage etc. I conclude by considering the implications of recent work on the evolution of cooperation and morality by Tomasello and col-leagues (Tomasello 2011; Tomasello et al. 2012; Tomasello and Vaish 2013) for the evolution of language.
Refrences
Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. Harlow, Essex: Longman.Croft, William. 2006. The relevance of an evolutionary model to historical linguistics. Competing models of linguistic change: evolution and beyond, ed. Ole Nedergård
Thomsen, 91-132. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Croft, William. 2009. Toward a social cognitive linguistics. New directions in cognitive linguistics, ed. Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel, 395-420. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.Griffiths, Paul E. & Russell D. Gray. 1994. Developmental systems and evolutionary explanation. Journal of Philosophy 90.277-304.Griffiths, Paul E. & Russell D. Gray. 2001. Darwinism and developmental systems. Cycles of contingency: developmental systems and evolution, ed. Susan Oyama,
Paul E. Griffiths and Russell D. Gray, 195-218. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Hull, David L. 1988. Science as a process: an evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Hull, David L. 2001. Science and selection: essays on biological evolution and the philosophy of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Mufwene, Salikoko. 2001. The ecology of language evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Mufwene, Salikoko. 2005. Créole, écologie sociale, évolution linguistique. Paris: L’Harmattan.Mufwene, Salikoko. 2008. Language evolution: contact, competition and change. London: Continuum.Oyama, Susan. 2000. The ontogeny of information: developmental systems and evolution, 2nd ed. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press.Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish sounds and linguistic evolution: a Darwinian approach to language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Tomasello, Michael. 1999. The cultural origins of human cognition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.Tomasello, Michael. 2008. Origins of human communication. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.Tomasello, Michael. 2011. Human culture in evolutionary perspective. Advances in culture and psychology, ed. Michele J. Gelfand, Chi-yue Chiu and Ying-yi Hong,
5-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Tomasello, Michael, Alicia P. Melis, Claudio Tennie, Emily Wyman and Esther Herrmann. 2012. Two key steps in the evolution of cooperation: the interdependence
hypothesis. Current Anthropology 53.673-92.Tomasello, Michael And Amrisha Vaish. 2013. Origins of human cooperation and morality. Annual Review of Psychology 64.231-55.
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NEGOTIATING SOCIAL BONDS IN BABOONS: THE ROLE OF KINSHIP, RECIPROCITY, AND GOOD INTENTIONS
JOAN B. SILK
Sociality has evolved in many animal taxa, and presumably re-flects a balance between the benefits of living in groups (such as lower risk of predation) and costs (higher rates of competition over resources). Selection is expected to favor morphological traits and behavioral strategies that enable individuals to increase the benefit/cost ratio. The formation of close social bonds among female baboons may be favored as a means of increasing b/c ratios. In some primate species, strong affiliative ties are linked to coalitionary success and the ability to acquire high ranking positions in the dominance hierarchy. Data from two different long-term studies of baboons show that females form strong, eq-uitable, supportive, tolerant, & stable social relationships with se-lected partners, particularly close maternal kin and peers. Close social bonds seem to help female baboons to cope with various
sources of stress. In addition,females with close social bonds have higher survival among their offspring and live longer them-selves than other females. These findings suggest that close social bonds may provide a means for females to increase the b/c ratio of group life. However, to form these bonds, females must over-come barriers that keep them apart – the risk of conflict. Work on baboons suggests that baboons use grunts to communicate peaceful intentions. That is, grunts provide a reliable predictive signal of nonaggressive behavior. Grunts facilitate proximity and affiliation, reconcile aggressive conflicts, and relieve anxiety. Thus, these signals may provide an important link between the benefits of social bonds and the risks inherent in interacting with potential competitors.
EVOLVING THE LANGUAGE-READY BRAIN: THE CASE FOR A COMPARATIVE NEUROPRIMATOLOGY
MICHAEL ARBIB
Building on the hypotheses of How the Brain Got Language (Ox-ford University Press, 2012), the talk examines three issues: the relevance of macaque data to claims about the relative roles of voice and hand on the early path to language; the interaction be-tween modeling and brain scanning of macaques, chimpanzees
and humans in hypotheses about gestural communication in the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans; and ways in which construction grammar should develop to make fuller contact with neurolinguistics in defining what neural capacities actually evolved to support human language.
CULTURAL EVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN LANGUAGE FACULTY AND ITS EVOLUTION
KENNY SMITH
Uniquely among the communication systems of the natural world, human language exhibits combinatorial and composi-tional structure. Structure in language gives us massive expres-sive power: at least at a first approximation, anything you can think you can express in language. No other species has a com-munication system which provides this expressive power. Why do humans?One explanation for the presence of structure in human language appeals to biological evolution under natural selection (Pinker & Bloom 1990; Pinker 2010): language is fundamentally a biologi-cal trait, underpinned by some innate language-specific appara-tus. The ability to communicate propositions which a structured language provides is adaptive, since it facilitates social interaction and social coordination and ultimately increases fitness; there-fore, structure in language represents a biological adaptation to a uniquely socially-interdependent human ecology. A second account explains structure in language as a consequence of cul-tural, rather than biological, evolution (Kirby, Smith & Brighton 2004; Christiansen & Chater 2008). Rather than language struc-ture reflecting an evolved domain-specific learning apparatus,
languages themselves have adapted over repeated episodes of learning and production in response to weaker, domain-general constraints arising from the biases of language learners.In this talk I’ll briefly review some of the evidence (from simu-lation, mathematical and experimental models of cultural trans-mission) which show that structure in language can be explained as a consequence of cumulative cultural evolution, and discuss the conditions under which this occurs (for recent reviews see e.g. Smith 2014; Kirby, Griffiths & Smith, forthcoming). I’ll then explore what these findings mean for our understanding of the biological basis of human language. Co-evolutionary modelling shows that constraints on language learning are adaptive and can evolve rapidly, but these adaptations only weakly constrain lan-guage learning, rather than hard-wiring particular design features into language learners (Smith & Kirby 2008; Smith, Thompson & Kirby, submitted). Secondly, given that this modelling work seems to predict that structure should arise from cultural trans-mission under fairly general conditions, I’ll review recent studies on cultural evolution of structure in non-humans (Fehér, Wang, Saar, Mitra & Tchernichovski, 2009; Claidière, Smith, Kirby &
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Fagot, submitted). Based on these various sources of evidence, I conclude that language is a product of gene-culture co-evolu-tion, supported by a suite of domain-general capacities, which, if specialised for language at all, are nonetheless highly flexible. We
have structured language because we are social, but rather than language being a biological adaptation to this social ecology, it is primarily a cultural adaptation arising from our propensity to learn socially.
References
Christiansen, M. H., & Chater, N. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 489–509.Claidière, N., Smith, K., Kirby, S., & Fagot, J. (submitted). Cumulative cultural evolution of systematically structured behavior in a non-human primate.Fehér, O., Wang, H., Saar, S., Mitra, P. P., & Tchernichovski, O. (2009). De novo establishment of wild-type song culture in the zebra finch. Nature, 459, 564–568.Kirby, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Smith, K. (forthcoming). Iterated learning and the evolution of language. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.Kirby, S., Smith, K., & Brighton, H. (2004). From UG to universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning. Studies in Language, 28(3), 587–607.Pinker, S. (2010). The cognitive niche: Coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 107, 8993–8999.Pinker, S., & Bloom, P. (1990). Natural language and natural selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13(4), 707–784.Smith, A. D. M. (2014). Models of language evolution and change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2008). Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society B, 363, 3591–3603.Smith, K., Thompson, B., & Kirby, S. (submitted). Culture shapes the evolution of cognition.
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LIST OF POSTERS
Diachronic processes in language as signaling under conflicting interests Christopher Ahern, Robin Clark
The Putty-Nosed monkey “Pyow-Hack” sequence: Compositional or an idio-matic expression? Kate Arnold, Klaus Zuberbuhler
The evolution of human cognitive systems: Comparative approaches to lan-guage and music Rie Asano, Uwe Seifert
Syntactic development in phenotypic space Lluis Barcelo-Coblin, Antoni Gomila Benejam
Finding the underpinnings: The last quarter century Ted Bayne
Speaking of language and evolution Christina Behme
The emergence of combinatoriality in the cultural transmission of pop songs in a children’s gameshow Jon Carr
The evolution of polysemy in child language Bernardino Casas, Neus Catala, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries
Vocal communication in Gibbons Esther Clarke, Klaus Zuberbuhler, Ulrich Reichard
Linguistic animals: Understanding language through a comparative approach Piera Filippi
A revival of the Homo Loquens as a builder of labeled structures Tomas Goucha, Emiliano Zaccarella, Angela D. Friederici
Comparative method for determining lexical stress in nonsense words Marisa Hoeschele, W. Tecumseh Fitch
Formant tuning techinique in vocalizations of non-human primates Hiroki Koda, Isao Tokuda, Chisako Oyakawa, Toshikuni Nihon-matus, Masumi Wakita, Nobuo Masataka, Takeshi Nishimura
Bow-and-arrow technology: Mapping human cognition and perhaps language evolution Alexandra Kratschmer, Miriam Haidle, Marlize Lombard
Social structure from language games Dorota Lipowska, Adam Lipowski
Pronomial characteristics of an evolved language: Is brevity an evolutionary advantage? Caroline Lyon
Broadcasting to the enemy: Deception as a solution in evolution of language L’udovít Malinovsky
The nature of language in interaction Ashley Micklos
Dogs need embodied directions: Children but not dogs possess skills needed for communicating with absent interlocutors
Richard Moore, Bettina Mueller, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello
Homo Praedicans Albert Naccache
Orofacial gestures in language evolution: The auditory feedback hypothesis Sylwester Orzechowski, Sławomir Wacewics, Przemysław Zywiczynski
Iconicity and ape gesture Marcus Perlman, Nathaniel Clark, Joanne Tanner
Constructions, construal and cooperation in the evolution of language Michael Pleyer, Nicolas Lindner
Social interaction influences the evolution of cognitive biases for language Sean Roberts, Bill Thompson, Kenny Smith
Accelerated regions and the language faculty Carmen Saldana
The cognitive underpinnings of metaphor as the driving force of language evolution Andrew Smith, Stefan Hofler
Linearisation of adjectives: The grammatical face on perceptual/conceptual biases? Jakob M. Steixner
The evolutionary relations between music and language: A cross-musical idi-om approach from the comparative perspective of language and music Xiaoxia Sun, Uwe Seifert
Organization of language: Evaluation of modularity theories Adam Szalontai, Katalin Csiszar
Supporting evidence for language polygenesis from Neanderthal-Human interbreeding Pui Yiu Szeto
Language emergence in the laboratory: A method suitable to dynamical sys-tems analysis Whitney Tabor, Russell Richie, Harry Dankowicz
Symbol extension and meaning generation in cultural evolution for displaced communication Kaori Tamura, Takashi Hashimoto
Model fitting and prediction for language evolution Bill Thompson, Vanessa Ferdinand
Learning speech-like signals from a skewed continuous distribution Sabine van der Ham, Bart de boer
Language evolved for storytelling in a super-fast evolution Till Nikolaus von Heiseler
Speech is characterized by robustness, neutrality and evolvability Bodo Winter
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SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Reception
ê City Hall – Rathaus Rathausplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
ê Monday, 14 April, 7.30 PM ê Meeting point: 7.10 PM, in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Lotti Viola
([email protected] / +43 669 12680652)
Conference Dinner
ê Heuriger Mayer am Pfarrplatz Pfarrplatz 2, 1190 Wien
ê Wednesday, 16 April, 7.30 PM ê Meeting point: 6.50 PM, in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Lotti Viola
([email protected] / +43 699 12680652)
Thursday activities
ê City walk ê Thursday, 17 April, 3 PM ê Meeting point: in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Lotti Viola
[email protected] +43 699 12680652
ê Schönbrunn Zoo ê Old Apehouse – Schönbrunn Zoo
Maxingstraße 13b, 1130 Wien ê Thursday, 17 April, 3.30 PM ê Meeting point: 2.30 PM, in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Maria Valencia
[email protected] / +43 664 9238924 ê You’ll need a ticket for public transport!
ê Leopold Museum ê Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien ê Thursday, 17 April, 3.30 PM ê Meeting point: 2.45 PM, in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Eva Zehentner
[email protected] / +43 680 2388734 ê You’ll need a ticket for public transport!
ê Wienerwald walking tour ê through the Wienerwald ê Thursday, 17 April ê Meeting point: 3.15 PM, in front of the Department of English ê Contact person: Nikolaus Ritt
[email protected] / +43 650 3270160 ê You’ll need a ticket for public transport!
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RESTAURANTS & LUNCH
If you have a lunch voucher, please go to “Gangl Bierheuriger” in Hof 1. Otherwise, these options are close by:
1. Ambulanz On campus (Hof 1) Traditional Austrian food
2. Unibräu On campus (Hof 1) Traditional Austrian food
3. Café Salettl On campus (Hof 1) Snacks, coffees
4. BILLA grocery store On campus (Hof 1) Sandwiches, salads and a deli counter
5. BILLA Box Garnisongasse 18, 1090 Corner shop: a range of lunch items, e.g. sandwiches, salads, baked goods
6. Restaurant Königshofer Beethovengasse 2, 1090 Traditional Austrian food, with a modern touch; lunch menus
7. Albert’s café.lounge Garnisongasse 14-16 and Schwarzspanierstraße 13, 1090 (two entrances) International food, lunch specials
8. Diana Schwarzspanierstr. 15, 1090 Pizzas and Italian food
9. Weltcafé Schwarzspanierstr. 15, 1090 International food, soups, bread and salads; 100% fair trade and organic
10. Hayaci Schwarzspanierstr. 22, 1090 Japanese food
11. Die Döneria Schwarzspanierstr. 22, 1090 Döner kebab shop; offers meat as well as falafel sandwiches
12. Culinarium Lackierergasse 9, 1090 General Asian food, all you can eat buffet
13. Ethiopian Restaurant Währingerstr. 15, 1090 Authentic Ethiopian dishes (NOT open on MONDAY)
14. Hotel Regina/Restaurant Roth Währinger Strasse 1, 1090 Austrian and international food, lunch specials
15. Zwillingsgwölb Universitätsstraße 5, 1010 Austrian food, lunch specials
16. Edison Alserstraße 9, 1080 International food, lunch specials
17. Café Votiv Universitätsstraße 5, 1090 Traditional Viennese café
18. Cafe Maximilian Universitatsring 4, 1010 A typical Viennese Café
19. Pie Factory Spitalgasse 15, 1090 British pies, savory and sweet; with the best dessert pies in Vienna
20. Gasthaus zur böhmischen Kuchl Schlösselgasse 18, 1080 Traditional Czech food
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10TH EVOLANG BIRTHDAY PARTY
ORGANIZED BY THE EVOLUTIONARY LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION (ELA)
To celebrate the 10th birthday of Evolang, the Evolutionary Lin-guistics Association (ELA) is organising a SMASHING BIRTH-DAY PARTY which will be held on Tuesday evening April 15 at Replugged. Doors open at 8:30 pm. There is free entry (with your badge) and a free drink for all Evolang participants. At 9:00 pm, a program of LIVE MUSIC starts. A band with iterat-ed learners from Edinburgh called ACACIA EMERGENCY will bring songs about members of the language evolution commu-nity. This is followed by a TALKING HEADS cover band from
Brussels with a surprising lead singer. This band celebrates the Talking Heads Experiment which was the first large-scale exper-iment in synthetic language evolution carried out 15 years ago. At intermission ELA is going to give their “Life Time Achieve-ment Award” to two distinguished language evolution scientists. Past recipients of the award were Bernd Heine and Bill Croft. The party ends at 11.00 pmDon’t miss this exciting event!
Address and public transport
RepluggedLerchenfelderstraße 23 1070 Vienna
15-20 minutes walk from the campus, or alternatively:Tram 46 (Strozzigasse)Bus 13A (Piaristengasse)Underground U2 and U3 (Volkstheater)
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Technical details
Each room is equipped with a PC, a projector and an audio system. You can use your own laptop, but copying your presentation to the pre-installed PC might be a more robust option.Installed software: Windows 7, Office 2010+, VLC 2.1.0+, Adobe ReaderProjector connection: VGA (if using a Mac, please make sure to bring an appropriate adapter with you)Audio-system connection: 3.5mm stereo plugWiFi will be available in all lecture rooms (vouchers will be distributed; alternatively you can use your eduroam account).
Posters
The poster session will take place during the lunch break on Wednesday, 16 April, from 12:30 until 14:30 in the foyer of the plenary hall. There will be a buffet, which is free for all participants.Posters should not be much larger than DIN A0, portrait (i.e. 1189mm high and 841mm wide). The poster stands are 1200mm high and 950mm wide, see figure on the right.Presenters are advised to hang-up their posters during the coffee break from 10:00 to 10:30. The poster stands will be removed at 17:30.For requests, please us.
Handouts
If you are planning to distribute handouts, please keep in mind that each lecture room acco-modates up to approximately 50 to 75 participants.Handouts can be printed at a copy shop, which is located in walking distance to the confer-ence venue. See www.copystudio.net.Alternatively, you can print and copy handouts at the university copy shop Facultas, which is located in Courtyard/Hof 1 at the university campus. See www.facultas.at/standorte/wien/campus.