Fourth International Conference on the Evolution of Language
Evolution of Language:
Fourth International Conference, 2002.
Harvard University
Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th
The conference will be held at the Harvard Science Center, just off
Harvard Yard and a short walk from Harvard Square.
PROGRAMME of ALL TALKS and POSTERS
There will be eight plenary talks, 88
30-minute non-plenary talks, and 30 posters.
See also the
Outline Timetable
and Schedule of Talks and Posters
PLENARY TALKS
NON-PLENARY TALKS (alphabetically by surname of first author)
``Fodor and the Evolutionary Frame of Language''
Majid Amini and Niloufar Jafari
``Primitive Gestures: Some thoughts on Studdert-Kennedy
and Goldstein's Account of the Origin of Phonological Structure''
Irene Appelbaum
``Beyond the Mirror: Sign Language and Minimal Subscenes''
Michael A. Arbib
``Deixis and the development of a proto-language in
asynchronously communicating connectionist agents''
Jean Baillie and Chrystopher Nehaniv
``Costly signalling and human language''
Carl T. Bergstrom, Rustom Antia, Szabolcs
Sz\'amad\'o, and Michael Lachmann
``Why Generativists have Problems with Evolution''
Derek Bickerton
``The size of the pharynx: An irrelevant parameter for speech
emergence and acquisition''
Boe L.J., Heim L.J. and Abry C.
``The poverty of the stimulus imposes a pressure for
compositional language under conditions of repeated observational learning''
Henry Brighton and Simon Kirby
``Coevolution of the language faculty and language(s)
with decorrelated encodings''
Ted Briscoe
``Generalized X-bar theory and the evolution of grammar''
[Note: some figures remain to be implemented in the web version of this abstract.]
Jason Brown and Chris Golston
``The 50k Bloom: Did Syntax Flower, or Did All of
Higher Intellectual Function?''
William H. Calvin
``The evolutionary origin of morphology''
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
``When words rule: The evolution of language function''
A. Charles Catania
``The Importance of Hierarchical Learning: A Computational
Study of Sequential Learning in Human and Non-Human Primates''
Morten H. Christiansen and Christopher M. Conway
``The evolution of grammatical structures and adaptive explanations''
Bernard Comrie and Tania Kuteva
``Executive Functions of the Frontal Lobes, Language, and
the Evolutionary Ascendancy of Homo Sapiens''
Frederick L. Coolidge and Tom Wynn
``How gestures became vocal''
Michael C. Corballis
``Language at 70.000 BP: Evidence from sea-crossings''
Coupe, Christophe and Jean-Marie Hombert
``Functionally Referential Communication in Wild Chimpanzees?''
Catherine Crockford and Christophe Boesch
``ProtocadherinXY as the Language Gene-progress report''
TJ Crow, T Priddle and N Williams
``Multiple-cue integration and the evolution of languages''
Dale, Rick and Christiansen, Morten H.
``Is there any Point in Archaeologists being Interested in the Origins
of Language?''
Iain Davidson
``Co-evolution of "motherese" and acquisition of speech''
Bart de Boer, Patricia K. Kuhl
``The Co-evolution of Language and Friendship''
Jean-Louis Dessalles and Laleh Ghadakpour
``Is Stimulus Equivalence (SE) a precursor or a product of language?''
David W. Dickins, Tom E. Dickins, and Richard P. Bentall
``Adaptive Design of Vowel Systems''
Randy L. Diehl, Bjvrn Lindblom, and Carl P. Creeger
``Requirements on Conceptual Representation for the
Evolution of Language''
Peter Ford Dominey
``The Secret of Language: on the Evolution of Language as a Ciphering System''
Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka
``Simulation of the Evolution of Turkic Vowel Harmony''
Mark Dras, K. David Harrison, Berk Kapicioglu
``Categorical perception and its ontogenetic development in nonhuman
primates''
Julia Fischer
``Kin Communication and the Evolution of Language: The
Mother Tongues Hypothesis''
W. Tecumseh Fitch
``Cognitive requirements for the expression of time''
Laleh Ghadakpour and Jean-Louis Dessalles
``To evolve language, first, you need to have prestige''
Francisco Gil-White
``An Evolutionary Typology of Compositionality''
David Gil
``Systematization, Sublimation, Ritualization: An Application of the
Uniformitarian Hypothesis''
John Haiman
``Language as Dynamics
-- A Computational Study of the Ontogenetic and Glossogenetic Loop''
Takashi Hashimoto
``Language polygenesis : What type of evidence?''
Hombert, Jean-Marie and Christophe Coupe
``Language beyond our grasp: what mirror neurons can, and cannot, do for
language evolution''
James R Hurford
`` Language as an Autonomous Dynamical System''
Ichiro Igari and Takashi Ikegami
``What Dolphins Can Tell us About the Evolution of Language''
Raquel O. Jaakkola
``Language as it could be : How robots can create new
linguistic phenomena''
Kaplan, Frederic
``The Rise and Fall of Homophones: a Window to Language
Evolution''
Jinyun Ke, Feng Wang and Christophe Coupe
``What is Language Evolution?
UG, Universals, and the Great Selection Myth''
Simon Kirby
``A Hard Question Confronting the Minimalist Program''
Hisatsugu Kitahara
``Costly signalling and some paradoxes of
language evolution''
Chris Knight
``Deception in animal signals and human language''
Michael Lachmann, Carl T Bergstrom and Szabolcs Szamado
``Formation of a shared conceptual structure in a
population of simulated autonomous agents''
Elise Langham and Seth Bullock
``Linguistic Diversity in an Expression/Induction Model''
Robert Liebscher
``The role of parental selection in the evolution of vocal
capacity''
John L. Locke
``The Case of Cases and Word Order: The Role of Syntactic
Cues in the Evolution and Acquisition of Language''
Gary Lupyan and Morten H. Christiansen
``Vocabulary errors as evidence of semantic knowledge in bonobos
(Pan paniscus)''
Heidi Lyn
``Evolution of language structure: survival of the fittest
in a statistical environment''
Caroline Lyon
``Origin of the Consonant-Vowel Frame for Speech:Innate Structuring or
Input-Mediated Construction?''
Peter F. MacNeilage and Barbara L. Davis
``Investigating the emergence of linguistic signs''
Egidio Marsico, Francois Pellegrino and Christophe Coupe
``Raw material transportation as an indicator of hominid
symbolic linguistic capacity during the Pleistocene''
Ben Marwick
``Proto-Language and dynamics of typological distributions''
Elena Maslova
``Cultural transmission, learning cost and the Baldwin effect
in language evolution''
Steve Munroe and Angelo Cangelosi
``Honest signaling in a continuous world''
Jean-Pierre Nadal, Jean-Louis Dessalles and Gerard Weisbuch
``Prelinguistic Primitives and the Evolution of Argument Structure:
Evidence from Specific Language Impairment''
Diane Nelson and Vesna Stojanovik
``Syntax as a handicap trait: evolution of birdsong, whale
song and human language''
Kazuo Okanoya and Hiroko Yamada
``The Logical Problem of Language Evolution''
Luca Onnis and Nick Chater
``The origins of phonemic coding and syllable systems''
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
``A Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for linguistic
phylogenies: an application to the Indo-European languages''
Mark Pagel, Andrew Meade and Russell Gray
``The Evolution of Communication from an Avian Perspective''
Irene M. Pepperberg
``Evolution in semantic language-games''
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
``Theory and Experimentation in the Modeling of Language
Emergence''
Andrei Popescu-Belis
``Intersensory integration of voice and face expressions.Towards a
motor theory of audiovisual perception?''
Pourtois, G and de Gelder, B
``A comparative study of the sensory innervation of the
vocal tract in humans and primates: possible implications for the
development of speech motor control.''
Gordon Ramsay and Didier Demolin
``Deception and Mate Selection: Some Implications for
Relevance and the Evolution of Language''
Kate Rigby and Bradley Franks
``Human tongue, pharynx and vocal fold muscles contain slow tonic
muscle, a distinct class of muscle that may have evolved for speech.''
Ira Sanders
``The relevance of brain size for understanding the
evolution of semantic complexity''
P. Thomas Schoenemann
``Language, genes and the evolution of combinatorics''
Daniel Segre'
``Mirror neurons and articulations, and the origin of speech.''
John R. Skoyles
``Meaning Synchronisation through Cognitive Biases and
Linguistic Input''
Andrew D.M. Smith
``Compositionality from culture: the role of environment
structure and learning bias''
Kenny Smith
``Language Diversity: Evidence For Language Fitness''
Zach Solan, Shimon Edelman, David Horn and Eytan Ruppin
``Computer simulations of the origins of case grammar''
Luc Steels
``Functional Load and Language Evolution''
Surendran, Dinoj and Niyogi, Partha
``Challenging the syllabic model of'syntax-as-it-is'''
Maggie Tallerman
``Serial Expertise and Declarative Memory Of Monkeys: Non-
Verbal Precursors Of Language''
Herbert S. Terrace
``Implicating working memory in the representation of
constituent structure and the origins of word-order universals''
Huck Turner and Angelo Cangelosi
``Evolution of the Tongue Root as an Articulator''
D. H. Whalen
``Pragmatics, Mindreading and the Evolution of Language''
Tim Wharton
``The evolution of language processing systems in the
neocortex: 'Why are babies born big?' revisited''
Steve Womble and Stefan Wermter
``Making models work for each other: common ground and
compatibility in accounts of language emergence''
Alison Wray
``The evolution of the morphology-syntax distinction''
Dieter Wunderlich
``A syntactic rule in primate communication''
Klaus Zuberbuhler
``How the poverty of stimulus solves the poverty of
stimulus''
Willem H. Zuidema
POSTERS (alphabetically by surname of first
author)
``Demythologizing Protolanguage''
Michael A. Babcock
``Are colour categories innate or learned? Insights from
computational modelling.''
Tony Belpaeme
``Cladistic reconstruction of linguistic trees through
vocalic data''
M. Ben Hamed, P. Darlu and N. Vallee
``The interface of neurobiological and linguistic development''
James Benson, Chris Cleirigh, William Greaves and Jared Taglialatela
``Cooperation and communication in apes and humans''
Ingar Brinck and Peter Gardenfors
``Evidence for semantic complexity in large-brained mammals''
Christopher M. Conway
``Locality as a Stabilizing Factor for Evolving Language
Systems''
Wenjing Dai and Les Gasser
``A critical analysis of the gestural proto-language theory''
Dale, Rick and Richardson, Daniel C.
``The Language of Individuals with Schizophrenia: Relation to its Genetics''
Lynn E DeLisi
``A comparative study of the sensory innervation of the
vocal tract in humans and primates: possible implications for the
development of speech motor control. Part II: The tongue and larynx.''
Didier Demolin and Gordon Ramsay
``The Language Organism: The Leiden theory of language evolution''
George van Driem
``Zipf's law, least effort and complexity''
Ramon Ferrer i Cancho and Ricard V. Soli
``Fundamental Properties of Phonological Organization:
Consonant-Vowel Relations in Creole Languages''
Ashlynn L. Kinney and Peter F. MacNeilage
``On the Modal Logic Non-Intuitionistic Structure of Ontogensis and
Phyletic Evolution of Language, Modelling Cognitive Grammars''
Franz R. Krueger, Claudia C. Krausse and Anatol Reibold
``Creolistics, biolinguistics, and the evolution of
superstructure''
Hirokuni Masuda
``The Potential Role of Production in the Evolution of Syntax''
Dana McDaniel
``Detecting Borrowing Among Languages: a glottochronological approach''
James W. Minett and William S.-Y. Wang
``Sociolinguistic Approaches to the Prehistory of the Mashriqian
(Semitic) Languages''
Albert F. H. Naccache
``Evolution of Word Order''
Mieko Ogura and William S-Y. Wang
``Baby cry as a pre-adaptation to language''
Kazuo Okanoya, Hiroko Ichii and Hiroshi Ushijima
``The Phylogeny of Vowels and Consonants''
Michael J. Owren
``Can the acoustic features of paleo-speech be
extrapolated from motherese?''
Elizabeth H. Peters
``The biological substrate of vocal signs in animal
communication: a neurosemiotic analysis of vervet monkey alarm-calls''
Joao Queiroz, Sidarta Ribeiro and Ivan Araujo
``The Evolution of Analogical and Metaphorical Reasoning''
Eric Schniter
``Music, Language, and Becoming Human''
Elizabeth Tolbert
``Studying Definiteness using a Computational Model''
Joris Van Looveren
``Carl Vogel and Justin Woods''
Simulation of Evolving Linguistic Communication among
Fallible Communicators
``Sympathetic mouth movements accompanying the fine motor manipulation
by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)with implications for the evolution of
language''
Gabriel S. Waters and Roger S. Fouts
``On oral pleasure: Limbic input, pre-frontal cortex, and the
self-selection of language function''
Chris Westbury, Richard Griffin and Trinity Wilson
``Evolution and Embodiment: Motor Priming of Figurative Speech''
Nicole L. Wilson and Greg Bryant