The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7), held in Barcelona in March 2008. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterized by an invigorating, multidisciplinary approach to the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many fields including anthropology, archeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, paleontology, primatology, psychology and statistical physics. The latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution is presented in this collection. It includes contributions from leading scientists such as Derek Bickerton, Rudolf Botha, Camilo Cela Conde, Francesco d''Erico, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Simon Kirby, Gary Marcus, Friedemann Pulvermller and Juan Uriagereka. Sample Chapter(s). Is Pointing the Root of the Foot? Grounding the ''Prosodic Word'' as a Pointing Word (607 KB). Contents: Is Pointing the Root of the Foot? Grounding the Prosodic Word as a Pointing Word (C Abry & V Ducey); The Subcortical Foundations of Grammaticalization (G P Argyropoulos); Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: A Problem Exportable to the Origins of Language (T Bejarano); Two Neglected Factors in Language Evolution (D Bickerton); Expressing Second Order Semantics and the Emergence of Recursion (J Bleys); Unravelling the Evolution of Language with Help from the Giant Water Bug, Natterjack Toad and Honed Lizard (R Botha); Linguistic Adaptations for Resolving Ambiguity (T Briscoe & P Buttery); Modelling Language Competition: Bilingualism and Complex Social Networks (X Castell et al.); Language, the Torque and the Speciation Event (T J Crow); The Emergence of Compositionality, Hierarchy and Recursion in Peer-to-Peer Interactions (J De Beule); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers working on the evolution of language, artificial intelligence, genetics and psychology. |
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