The evolution of language : proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008
Comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 7th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG7), held in Barcelona in March 2008. This collection presents the theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution. It includes contributions from scientists such as Derek Bickerton, Rudolf Botha, and Simon Kirby.
Conference papers and proceedings
xvi, 513 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9789812776112, 9812776117
185033167
Machine generated contents note: Is Pointing the Root of the Foot? Grounding the "Prosodic Word" as a Pointing Word / Christian Abry / Virginie Ducey
The Subcortical Foundations of Grammaticalization / Giorgos P. Argyropoulos
Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: A Problem Exportable to the Origins of Language / Teresa Bejarano
Two Neglected Factors in Language Evolution / Derek Bickerton
Expressing Second Order Semantics and the Emergence of Recursion / Joris Bleys
Unravelling the Evolution of Language with Help from the Giant Water Bug, Natterjack Toad and Horned Lizard / Rudolf Botha
Linguistic Adaptations for Resolving Ambiguity / Ted Briscoe / Paula Buttery
Modelling Language Competition: Bilingualism and Complex Social Networks / Xavier Castello / Victor M. Eguiluz / Maxi San Miguel / Lucia Loureiro-Porto / Riitta Toivonen / Jari Saramaki / Kimmo Kaski
Language, the Torque and the Speciation Event / Tim J. Crow
The Emergence of Compositionality, Hierarchy and Recursion in Peer-to-Peer Interactions / Joachim De Beule
Causal Correlations between Genes and Linguistic Features: The Mechanism of Gradual Language Evolution / Dan Dediu
Spontaneous Narrative Behaviour in Homo Sapiens: How Does It Benefit Speakers? / Jean-Louis Dessalles
What do Modern Behaviours in Homo Sapiens Imply for the Evolution of Language? / Benoit Dubreuil
The Origins of Preferred Argument Structure / Caleb Everett
Long-Distance Dependencies are not Uniquely Human / Ramon Ferrer i Cancho / Victor M. Longa / Guillermo Lorenzo
How Much Grammar Does It Take to Sail a Boat? (Or, What can Material Artifacts Tell Us about the Evolution of Language?) / David Gil
The Role of Cultural Transmission in Intention Sharing / Tao Gong / James W. Minett / William S-Y. Wang
The Role of Naming Game in Social Structure / Tao Gong / William S-Y. Wang
Do Individuals Preferences Determine Case Marking Systems? / David J. C. Hawkey
What Impact Do Learning Biases have on Linguistic Structures? / David J. C. Hawkey
Reanalysis vs Metaphor: What Grammaticalisation CAN Tell Us about Language Evolution / Stefan Hoefler / Andrew D. M. Smith
Seeking Compositionality in Holistic Proto-Language without Substructure: Do Counter-Examples Overwhelm the Fractionation Process? / Sverker Johansson
Unravelling Digital Infinity / Chris Knight / Camilla Power
Language Scaffolding as a Condition for Growth in Linguistic Complexity / Kiran Lakkaraju / Les Gasser / Samarth Swarup
The Emergence of a Lexicon by Prototype-Categorising Agents in a Structured Infinite World / Cyprian Laskowski
Evolutionary Framework for the Language Faculty / Erkki Luuk / Hendrik Luuk
Artificial Symbol Systems in Dolphins and Apes: Analogous Communicative Evolution? / Heidi Lyn
The Adaptiveness of Metacommunicative Interaction in a Foraging Environment / Zoran Macura / Jonathan Ginzburg
On the Impact of Community Structure on Self-Organizing Lexical Networks / Alexander Mehler
A Crucial Step in the Evolution of Syntactic Complexity / Juan C. Moreno Cabrera
Evolution of the Global Organization of the Lexicon / Mieko Ogura / William S-Y. Wang
From Mouth to Eye / Dennis Philps
What Use is Half a Clause? / Ljiljiana Progovac
The Formation, Generative Power, and Evolution of Toponyms: Grounding Vocabulary in a Cognitive Map / Ruth Schulz / David Prasser / Paul Stockwell / Gordon Wyeth / Janet Wiles
On the Correct Application of Animal Signalling Theory to Human Communication / Thomas C. Scott-Phillips
Natural Selection for Communication Favours the Cultural Evolution of Linguistic Structure / Kenny Smith / Simon Kirby
Syntax, a System of Efficient Growth / Alona Soschen
Simple, but not too Simple: Learnability vs. Functionality in Language Evolution / Samarth Swarup / Les Gasser
Kin Selection and Linguistic Complexity / Maggie Tallerman
Regularity in Mappings Between Signals and Meanings / Monica Tamariz / Andrew D. M. Smith
Emergence of Sentence Types in Simulated Adaptive Agents / Ryoko Uno / Takashi Ikegami / Davide Marocco / Stefano Nolfi
Desperately Evolving Syntax / Juan Uriagereka
Constraint-Based Compositional Semantics / Wouter Van Den Broeck
The Emergence of Semantic Roles in Fluid Construction Grammar / Remi Van Trijp
Broadcast Transmission, Signal Secrecy and Gestural Primacy Hypothesis / Slawomir Wacewicz / Przemyslaw Zywiczynski
Self-Interested Agents can Bootstrap Symbolic Communication if They Punish Cheaters / Emily Wang / Luc Steels
Coping with Combinatorial Uncertainty in Word Learning: A Flexible Usage-Based Model / Pieter Wellens
Removing 'Mind-Reading' from the Iterated Learning Model / Simon F. Worgan / Robert I. Damper
How does Niche Construction in Learning Environment Trigger the Reverse Baldwin Effect? / Hajime Yamauchi
Coexisting Linguistic Conventions in Generalized Language Games / Andrea Baronchelli / Lucia Dall'Asta / Alain Barrat / Vittorio Loreto
Complex Systems Approach to Natural Categorization / Andrea Baronchelli / Vittorio Loreto / Andrea Puglisi
Regular Morphology as a Cultural Adaptation: Non-Uniform Frequency in an Experimental Iterated Learning Model / Arianita Beqa / Simon Kirby / Jim Hurford
Neural Dissociation between Vocal Production and Auditory Recognition Memory in Both Songbirds and Humans / Johan J. Bolhuis
Discourse Without Symbols: Orangutans Communicate Strategically in Response to Recipient Understanding / Erica Cartmill / Richard W. Byrne
Taking Wittgenstein Seriously: Indicators of the Evolution of Language / Camilo J. Cela-Conde / Marcos Nadal / Enric Munar / Antoni Gomila / Victor M. Egufluz
An Experiment Exploring Language Emergence: How to See the Invisible Hand and Why We Should / Hannah Cornish
The Syntax of Coordination and the Evolution of Syntax / Wayne Cowart / Dana McDaniel
The Archaeology of Language Origin / Francesco D'Errico
The Joy of Sacs / Bart De Boer
How Complex Syntax Could Be / Mike Dowman
The Multiple Stages of Protolanguage / Mike Dowman
A Human Model of Color Term Evolution / Mike Dowman / Ying Xu / Thomas L. Griffiths
Evolution of Song Culture in the Zebra Finch / Olga Feher / Partha P., Mitra / Kazutoshi Sasahara / Ofer Tchernikovski
Iterated Language Learning in Children / Molly Flaherty / Simon Kirby
Gesture, Speech and Language / Susan Goldin-Meadow
Introducing the Units and Levels of Evolution Debate into Evolutionary Linguistics / Nathalie Gontier
What can the Study of Handedness in Nonhuman Apes Tell Us about the Evolution of Language? / Rebecca Harrison
Unidirectional Meaning Change with Metaphoric and Metonymic Inferencing / Takashi Hashimoto / Masaya Nakatsuka
Recent Adaptive Evolution of Human Genes Related to Hearing / John Hawks
Inhibition and Language: A Pre-Condition for Symbolic Communicative Behaviour / Carlos Hernandez-Sacristan
Pragmatic Plasticity: A Pivotal Design Feature? / Stefan Hoefler
Continuity between Non-Human Primates and Modern Humans? / Jean-Marie Hombert
Afterall, a "Leap" is Necessary for the Emergence of Recursion in Human Language / Masayuki Ike-Uchi
Labels and Recursion: From Adjunction-Syntax to Predicate-Argument Relations / Aritz Irurtzun
Iterated Learning with Selection: Convergence to Saturation / Mike Kalish
A Reaction-Diffusion Approach to Modelling Language Competition / Anne Kandler / James Steele
Accent Over Race: The Role of Language in Guiding Children's Early Social Preferences / Katherine D. Kinzler / Kristin Shutts / Emmanuel Dupoux / Elizabeth S. Spelke
Language, Culture and Biology: Does Language Evolveto be Passed on by Us, and Did Humans Evolve to Let that Happen? / Simon Kirby
Three Issues in Modeling the Language Convergence Problem as a Multiagent Agreement Problem / Kiran Lakkaraju / Les Gasser
The Development of a Social Signal in Free-Ranging Chimpanzees / Marion Laporte / Klaus Zuberbuhler
Gestural Modes of Representation
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach / Katja Liebal / Hedda Lausberg / Ellen Frincke / Cornelia Muller
Extracommunicative Functions of Language: Verbal Interference Causes Categorization Impairments / Gary Lupyan
Form-Meaning Compositionality Derives from Social and Conceptual Diversity / Gary Lupyan / Rick Dale
Language as Kluge / Gary Marcus
Origins of Communication in Autonomous Robots / Davide Marocco / Stefano Nolfi
Handedness for Gestural Communication and Non-Communicative Actions in Chimpanzees and Baboons: Implications for Language Origins / Molly J. Gardner / Adrien Meguerditchian / Jacques Vauclair / Steven J. Schapiro / William D. Hopkins
The Evolution of Hypothetical Reasoning: Intelligibility or Reliability? / Hugo Mercier
Simulation of Creolization by Evolutionary Dynamics / Satoshi Tojo / Makoto Nakamura / Takashi Hashimoto
Evolution of Phonological Complexity: Loss of Species-Specific Bias Leads to more Generalized Learnability in a Species of Songbirds / Miki Takahashi / Kazuo Okanoya
Referential Gestures in Chimpanzees in the Wild: Precursors to Symbolic Communication? / Simone Pika / John C. Mitani
Modeling Language Emergence by Way of Working Memory / Alessio Plebe / VivianDe la Cruz / Marco Mazzone
Mechanistic Language Circuits: What Can be Learned? What is Pre-Wired? / Friedemann Pulvermuller
Reflections on the Invention and Reinvention of the Primate Playback Experiment / Greg Radick
An Experimental Approach to the Role of Freerider Avoidance in the Development of Linguistic Diversity / Gareth Roberts
Prosody and Linguistic Complexity in an Emerging Language / Carol Padden / Mark Aronoff / Svetlana Dachkovsky / Irit Meir / Wendy Sandler
Communication, Cooperation and Coherence Putting Mathematical Models into Perspective / Jelle Zuidema / Federico Sangatiand Note continued: A Numerosity-Based Alarm Call System in King Colobus Monkeys / Sandra Tranquilli / Klaus Zuberbuhler / Anne Schel
On There and Then: From Object Permanence to Displaced Reference / Marieke Schouwstra
Signalling Signalhood and the Emergence of Communication / Thomas C. Scott-Phillips / Graham R. S. Ritchie / Simon Kirby
Wild Chimpanzees Modify the Structure of Victim Screams According to Audience Composition / Katie E. Slocombe / Klaus Zuberbuhler
An Experimental Study on the Role of Language in the Emergence and Maintenance of Human Cooperation / Simon Kirby / John W. F. Small
Replicator Dynamics of Language Processing / Luc Steels / Eors Szathmary
Syntactical and Prosodic Cues in Song Segmentation Learning by Bengalese Finches / Miki Takahashi / Kazuo Okanoya
Why the Transition to Cumulative Symbolic Culture is Rare / Monica Tamariz
A Gradual Path to Hierarchical Phrase-Structure: Insights from Modeling and Corpus-Data / Willem Zuidema