Friday, September 2nd A404, Roeterstraat 15, Amsterdam
| Session I: The Evolution of Speech (chair: Bart de Boer) | |||||
| 9.00 | - | 9.15 | Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop | ||
| 9.15 | - | 9.30 | Bart de Boer | Introduction: The Evolution of Speech | |
| 9.30 | - | 10.00 | Tecumseh Fitch | Mechanisms of sound production in mammals and birds | |
| 10.00 | - | 10.30 | Asli Özyürek | From gesture to language: how does a new (sign) language emerge? | |
| 10.30 | - | 10.50 | Tea & Coffee | ||
| 10.50 | - | 11.20 | Pierre-Yves Oudeyer | Bootstrapping shared combinatorial vocalization systems | |
| 11.20 | - | 11.50 | Willem Zuidema | A game-theoretic analysis of the evolution of combinatorial phonology | |
| 11.50 | - | 12.00 | Break | ||
| 12.00 | - | 12.30 | Bart de Boer | The evolution of complex speech | |
| 12.30 | - | 13.00 | Discussion | ||
| 13.00 | - | 14.15 | Lunch | Spilia zaal, Agora (Roeterstraat 11) | |
| Session II: Interactions between Learning and Evolution (chair: Kenny Smith) | |||||
| 14.15 | - | 14.30 | Kenny Smith | Introduction: Interactions between Learning and Evolution | |
| 14.30 | - | 15.00 | Joost Beltman | The Evolution of Habitat Preferences and Speciation | |
| 15.00 | - | 15.30 | Carel ten Cate | Song in Songbirds: Development and Evolutionary Change | |
| 15.30 | - | 15.50 | Coffee, Tea & Refreshments | ||
| 15.50 | - | 16.20 | Robert Lachlan | Cultural Evolution in Bird Song and Language | |
| 16.20 | - | 16.50 | Kenny Smith | The Evolution of Vocabulary Learning Strategies | |
| 16.50 | - | 17.00 | Break | ||
| 17.00 | - | 17.30 | Ted Briscoe | Grammatical Assimilation in Language Evolution: | |
| theoretical feasibility and empirical predictions | |||||
| 17.30 | - | 18.00 | Discussion | ||
| 19.00 | - | Workshop Dinner | (invited speakers only) | ||
Saturday, September 3d A404, Roeterstraat 15, Amsterdam
| Session III: Social Learning & Conventional Meaning (chair: Andrew Smith) | |||||
| 9.00 | - | 9.15 | Andrew Smith | Introduction: Social Learning & Conventional Meaning | |
| 9.15 | - | 9.45 | Christine Caldwell | Social learning in humans and non-human primates | |
| 9.45 | - | 10.15 | Carmel Houston-Price | Cues Infants use to Learn the Meanings of Words | |
| 10.15 | - | 10.35 | Coffee & Tea | ||
| 10.35 | - | 11.05 | Paul Vogt | The role of perception and action in models of the emergence of | |
| conventional communication systems | |||||
| 11.05 | - | 11.35 | Andrew Smith | Language change through the inference of meaning | |
| 11.35 | - | 11.45 | Break | ||
| 11.45 | - | 12.15 | Robert van Rooij | Evolution of Language: some semantic challenges | |
| 12.15 | - | 12.45 | Bill Croft | Utterance selection and the emergence of New Zealand English (with Gareth Baxter, Richard Blythe and Alan McKane) | |
| 12.45 | - | 13.00 | Discussion | ||
| 13.00 | - | 14.00 | Lunch | A404 (the seminar room; registrants only) | |
| Session IV: The Evolution of Syntax (chair: Willem Zuidema) | |||||
| 14.00 | - | 14.15 | Willem Zuidema | Introduction: The Evolution of Syntax | |
| 14.15 | - | 14.45 | Klaus Zuberbühler | Evolution of compositional semantics in monkey alarm calls | |
| 14.45 | - | 15.15 | Arie Verhagen | The fall of the wall (between lexicon and grammar), and its consequences | |
| 15.15 | - | 15.35 | Refreshments | ||
| 15.35 | - | 16.05 | Rens Bod | The DOP-view of language, and its consequences for theories of | |
| language acquisition, change and evolution | |||||
| 16.05 | - | 16.35 | Henk Zeevat | Formal models of language change | |
| 16.35 | - | 16.45 | Break | ||
| 16.45 | - | 17.15 | Simon Kirby | The Problem of Linkage, and its solution: how universals and | |
| innateness are related | |||||
| 17.15 | - | 17.45 | Discussion | ||