Evolution of Language:
Fourth International Conference, 2002.

Harvard University

Wednesday March 27th --- Saturday March 30th

Schedule of talks and posters

The conference will be held at the Harvard Science Center, just off Harvard Yard and a short walk from Harvard Square.

Read this schedule in conjunction with the Outline Timetable,
and the Programme of all talks and posters (which has links to abstracts).

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POSTER
SESSIONS

Wednesday AM

 

11.00 Plenary: Leslie Aiello (All day)


posters by


Ben Hamed


Benson


Brinck


Conway


Dale


Marwick

Language Diversity

Modelling Case Grammars

12.00

Liebscher

Steels

12.30

Solan et al

Lupyan & Christiansen

Wednesday PM

2.15 Plenary: Philip Lieberman

Emergence of Concepts/Lexicon

Evolution of Speech Production

3.15

Dominey

Boe, Heim & Abry

3.45

Langham & Bullock
(withdrawn)

Whalen

4.45

Kaplan

MacNeilage & Davis

5.15

A Smith

Ramsay & Demolin

5.45

Marsico, Pellegrino & Coupé

Sanders

6.15-7.30 Wine Reception, Science Center,
Jelle Atema playing Neanderthal flutes

Thursday AM

9.00 Plenary: Martin Nowak (All day)


posters by

Dai &
Gasser


De Lisi


Demolin


Driem


Ferrer y Cancho


Kinney


Krueger


Masuda

Language Modelling 1

Morphology/Syntax

Mirror Neurons

10.00

Pagel, Meade & Gray

Carstairs-McCarthy

Hurford

10.30

Dale & Christiansen

Babcock

Baillie & Nehaniv

11.30

Dras, Harrison & Kapicioglu

Brown & Goldston

Arbib

12.00

Lyon

Tallerman

Skoyles

12.30

Zuidema

Ke, Wang & Coupé

Corballis

Thursday PM

2.15 Plenary: Michael Studdert-Kennedy

Language Modelling 2

Phonology

Animal Communication

3.15

Popescu-Belis

Segre

Jaakola

3.45

Onnis & Chater

Oudeyer

Pepperberg

4.45

Igari & Ikegani

Appelbaum

Crockford & Boesch

5.15

Hashimoto

Diehl, Lindblom & Creeger

Zuberbühler

5.45

Wray

Surendra & Niyogi

Fischer

Friday AM

9.00 Plenary: Amotz Zahavi (All day)


posters by

McDaniel


Minett


Naccache


Ogura


Okanoya


Peters


Queiroz

Culture & Biology

Costly Signaling

Functional Approaches

10.00

Comrie & Kuteva

Knight

Catania

10.30

Haiman

Lachman, Bergstrom & Szamado

Dickins, Dickins & Bentall

11.30

Crow, Priddle & Williams

Dessalles & Ghadakpour

Locke

12.00

Nelson & Stojanovik

Okanoya

Pourtois & de Gelder

12.30

Gil-White

deBoer & Kuhl

Friday PM

2.15 Plenary: Ray Jackendoff

Compositionality

Costly Signalling

Archaeology

3.15

Maslova

Bergstrom et al.

Davidson

3.45

Gil

Nadal, Dessalles & Weisbuch

Calvin

4.45

Brighton & Kirby

Rigby & Franks

Marwick
(withdrawn:
now a poster)

5.15

K Smith

Fitch

Coupé & Hombert

5.45

Turner & Cangelosi

DISCUSSION
SESSION
(about 1 hour)

Hombert & Coupé

Saturday AM

9.00 Plenary: Partha Niyogi (All day)


posters by


Schniter


Tolbert


Van Looveren


Vogel


Waters


Westbury


Wilson

Semantics

Learning & Baldwin Effect

10.00

Amini & Jafari

Terrace

10.30

Belpaeme

Christiansen & Conway

11.30

Pietarinen

Lyn

12.00

Schoenemann

Munroe & Cangelosi

12.30

Ghadakpour & Dessalles

Briscoe

Saturday PM

2.15 Plenary: David Caplan

Problems for Generativists

Brain Evolution

3.15

Kitahara

Womble & Wermter

3.45

Kirby

Coolidge & Wynn

4.45 Round Table Discussion
``Linguistics & Biology: Where do we go from here?''
Noam Chomsky
Marc Hauser
Michael Studdert-Kennedy
7.00-10.30 Banquet ($50 extra)