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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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, César 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 Jäger
- 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 Özyürek, Susan Goldin-Meadow
- Exploring the nature of a systematicity bias : an experimental study / Andrew D.M. Smith, Barbora Skarabela, Mónica 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 / Mónica 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 Leısmo, Laısmo and Loısmo / 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 / Hélène 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 / Hélène 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, Frédéric 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 Gärdenfors
- 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 Zuberbühler
- 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 / Hélène 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 Zuberbühler, 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 : Pólya urns and the price equation / Mónica Tamariz
- What are the analogues of genotype and phenotype in the cultural evolution of language? / Mónica 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 Żywiczyński
- 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, Göran Sonesson.