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1. Guillaume
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The Origins of Language - Summer Institute 2010
Message 1: The Origins of Language - Summer Institute 2010
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Date: 08-Dec-2008
From: Guillaume Chicoisne <chicoisne.guillaumeuqam.ca>
Subject: The Origins of Language - Summer Institute 2010
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The Origins of Language - Summer Institute 2010
Date: 21-Jun-2010 - 30-Jun-2010
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Contact: Nicole Richard
Contact Email: summer10.iscuqam.ca
Meeting URL: http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics;
Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
The Cognitive Science Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal is
pleased to launch the program of its third Summer Institute which will bear
on the Origins of language and will take place at UQAM (Montreal, Canada) in
June 2010. The program is on the web site of the Summer institute at the
following address:
http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca/
Detailed Program Available Here:
Http://Www.Summer10.Isc.Uqam.Ca/Page/Programme.Php
Opening Session - Public Conference
(Monday, June 21st 2010)
What Is Language?
TBA
1. Introduction
Tuesday June 22nd 2010
Historical Debates and Experiments
Henri Cohen
Université René Descartes, Paris
The Origin of Language in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Sylvain Auroux
École Normale Supérieure - Lettres Sciences Humaines
Biological Evolution
David Sloan Wilson
Binghamton University
Genetics of Language
Karin Stromswold
Rutgers University
The Evolution of Language
Maggie Tallerman
University Of Newcastle
2. Animal Communication and Language
Wednesday June 23rd 2010
Animal Communication
Stephanie White
University of California at Los Angeles
Primate Communication
Klaus Zuberbühler
University Of St Andrews
What Has Ape Language Research Taught Us About Human Language?
Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Great Ape Trust Research Center and The Language Research Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Ape Gesture and the Origins of Language in Dynamic Systems Perspectives
Barbara King
College of William and Mary
Cognitive Determinants of Language
Pierre Jacob
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Sound Patterns and Conceptual Content of the First Words
Peter Macneilage
University of Texas, Austin
3. Embodiment of Language
(Thursday June 24th 2010)
Anatomical Determinants of Speech and Language
Angela Friederici
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig
Prediction of the Ability of Reconstituted Vocal Tracts of Fossils to Produce
Speech: Ontogenetic and Polygenetic Considerations for Origin of Speech
Louis-Jean Boë
Institut National Polytechnique De Grenoble, Université Stendhal, Musée National
d'Histoire Naturelle
Brain Evolution
Terrence Deacon
Harvard University
Brain Lateralization and the Emergence of Language
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer
Université De Caen
Mice, Chimpanzees and the Molecular Basis of Speech
Wolfgang Enard
MPI EVA, Leipzig
Mirror Neurons,
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Universita Degli Studi Di Parma
4. Anthropological Perspectives
Friday June 25th 2010
Paleontological Foundations of Language 1
Ian Tattersall
American Museum of Natural History
Paleontological Foundations of Language 2
Jean-Jacques Hublin
MPI EVA, Leipzig
Language and Material Culture: Relating the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa
to the Origins of Language
Christopher Henshilwood
University Of Witwatersrand, South Africa, And University Of Bergen, Norway
Cognitive Capacities of Fossil Hominids
Francesco D'Errico
CNRS, Paris
Populations and Languages
Jean-Marie Hombert
Université De Lyon 2
Day Off
Saturday June 26th 2010
5. Philosophical, Social and Psychological Perspectives
Sunday June 27th 2010
Philosophical View Points on the Origins of Language
Kim Sterelny
Victoria University of Wellington
A Pragmatic Account of the Origin of Language
Dan Sperber
CNRS, Paris
Co-Evolution of Language and Culture
William Durham
Stanford University
Origins of Human Communication
Michael Tomasello
MPI EVA, Leipzig
On The Origins of Meaning
James Hurford
University Of Edinburgh
6. Theories of Language Origin
Monday June 28th 2010
Cognitive and Social Aspects of Language Origins
Alan Barnard
University Of Edinburgh
Musical Proto-Language: Darwin's Theory of Language
W. Tecumseh Fitch
University Of St Andrews
Symbol Grounding and the Origin of Language
Stevan Harnad
Université Du Québec À Montréal
Gestural Theory
Michael Corballis
University Of Auckland
On The Nature of Linguistic Computations
Luigi Rizzi
University Of Siena
7. Computational Modeling of Language
Tuesday June 29th 2010
Framework for the Evolution of Language
Simon Kirby
University Of Edinburgh
Evolution of Language Learnability
Morten Christiansen
Cornell University
How Language Emerges in Situated Embodied Interactions
Luc Steels
Free University of Brussels
Artificial Life Modeling of Language Evolution
Domenico Parisi
CNR, Rome
Mirror Systems: Evolving Imitation and the Bridge from Praxis to Language
Michael Arbib
University Of Southern California
8. Linguistic Perspectives
Wednesday June 30th 2010
What do Linguists have to Say about the Evolution of Language?
Bernard Comrie
MPI EVA, Leipzig
On The Origin of Grammar
Bernd Heine
University Of Cologne / Universität Köln
On the Relevance of Pidgins and Creoles in the Debate on Language Origins
Claire Lefebvre
Université Du Québec À Montréal
Arbitrary Signs and the Emergence of Language
Denis Bouchard
Université Du Québec À Montréal
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