evolution language conference apologies multiple postings evolution language 2nd international conference date monday 6th thursday 9th april 1998 venue city university london organised prof jean aitchison oxford university prof james hurford university edinburgh dr chris knight university east london preliminary programme conference available details registration form obtained joan tremble uel business services duncan house high street london e15 2jb tel 0181 2150705 fax 0181 849 3619 email j tremble uel ac uk website http www uel ac uk faculties socsci anthro confreg htm preliminary programme monday 6th april 2pm 6pm plenary session 2pm opening remarks 2 10 jean aitchison language origins psycho linguistic theories 2 40 colin renfrew small talk human revolution impressive 3 10 mark pagel history rate pattern world linguistic evolution 3 40 tea coffee break 4 10 terrence deacon constraints brainlanguage coevolution 4 40 derek bickerton protolanguage language rest story 5 10 robert berwick evolution language acquisition classical modern models evolutionary innovation 5 40 general discussion tuesday 7th april 9am 1pm parallel session room one 9am heidi lyn saffer e sue savagerumbaugh observational word learning bonobos pan paniscus 9 25 michael beran e sue savagerumbaugh karen brakke language comprehension three chimpanzees pan troglodytes effect rearing level comprehension 9 50 robert worden words memes language evolution 10 15 paul bloom evolution words 10 40 tea coffee break 11 05 william abler algebraic syntax 11 30 ezequiel di paolo spatio temporal structural constraints evolution communication 11 55 angelo cangelosi stevan harnad adaptive advantages hearsay direct sensorimotor experiences 12 20 general discussion tuesday 7th april 9am 1pm parallel session room two 9am peter macneilage barbara davis evolution speech relation ontogeny phylogeny 9 25 marilyn may vihman rory de paolis role mimesis infant language development evidence phylogeny 9 50 luc steels origins linguistic categories 10 15 tea coffee break 10 40 john batali negotiation acquisition recursive grammars result competition among exemplars 11 05 simon kirby compositionality emerges vocabulary population learners 11 30 james hurford syntax creation randomness 11 55 ted briscoe natural natural language human languages complex adaptive systems 12 20 general discussion tuesday 7th april 2pm 5pm parallel session room one 2pm dean falk proto music protolanguage australopithecines beyond 2 25 james steele right shifted handedness frequencies marker selection protolanguage abilities 2 50 tim crow homo sapiens speciate language originate chromosome 3 15 tea coffee break 3 40 myrna gopnik language evolution rules representations 4 05 heather k j van der lely evidence grammar specific deficit children implications biological evolution language 4 30 general discussion 5 00 poster presentations tuesday 7th april 2pm 5pm parallel session room two 2pm peter gardenfors simon winter evolving social constraints individual conceptual relations 2 25 alison wray holistic utterances common link primates humans 2 50 tea coffee break 3 15 jason noble evolution communication without conflicts interest argument modelling protoproto language 3 40 edward kako reconstructing protolanguage capacities languagetrained animals 4 05 gwen hewitt ann maclarnon respiratory adaptations protolanguage fissionfusion groups 4 30 general discussion 5 00 poster presentations wednesday 8th april 9am 1pm parallel session room one 9am steven mithen thought language manufacture handaxes 9 25 alexander marshack coevolution language visual capacities archaeological cognitive evidence 9 50 daniel dor eva jablonka shimona ginzberg geva rechav linguistic meaning linguistic sound mechanism genetic assimilation towards explicit model evolution language 10 15 tea coffee break 10 40 paul vogt evolution lexicon meaning robotic agents selforganizing adaptation 11 05 mike oliphant rethinking language bottleneck nt animals learn communicate 11 30 geoffrey miller peter todd evolution vocabulary size runaway sexual selection theory data simulations 11 55 john locke rank reciprocity relationships evolution language 12 20 general discussion wednesday 8th april 9am 1pm parallel session room two 9am jeffrey laitman samuel marquez joy reidenberg new insights neanderthal craniofacial biology implications understanding vocal abilities speech 9 25 philip lieberman functional language system human brain 9 50 lynne schepartz evolution complex language darwinian perspective 10 15 ian maddieson vowel systems language origin 10 40 tea coffee break 11 05 michael studdertkennedy implications particulate principle evolution language 11 30 tecumseh fitch vocal tract anatomy formants evolution speech 11 55 rene carre origin speech gestures 12 20 general discussion wednesday 8th april 2pm 5pm parallel session room one 2pm jean louis dessalles linguistic relevance hominidae politics 2 25 robert kluender getting intermediating role ritual evolution language 2 50 chris knight ritual evolution syntactical speech 3 15 tea coffee break 3 40 robin dunbar freerider problem evolution language 4 05 camilla power secret language contexts female initiation ritual 4 30 general discussion 5 00 poster presentations wednesday 8th april 2pm 5pm parallel session room two 2pm april mcmahon evolution phonological constraints 2 25 jan anward bjorn lindblom morphogenesis systemic growth linguistic form 2 50 tea coffee break 3 15 andrew carstairsmccarthy distinction sentences noun phrases impediment language evolution 3 40 bart de boer emergence sound systems selforganisation 4 05 daniel livingstone colin fyfe computational model languagephysiology coevolution 4 30 ann maclarnon gwen hewitt protolanguage language evidence evolution breathing control 5 00 general discussion thursday 9th april 9am 1pm plenary session 9am frederick newmeyer reconstruction protoworld word order 9 30 david lightfoot maladaptiveness universal grammar 10 00 michael fortescue linguistic bottlenecks early population movements 10 30 tea coffee break 11 00 robbins burling comprehension production early language 11 30 luca cavallisforza view relationships genetics linguistics 12 00 general discussion 12 30 concluding remarks organisers reserve right make changes programme time