The evolution of language : proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 12-15 March 2008 / editors, Andrew D.M. Smith, Kenny Smith, Ramon Ferrer i Cancho.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Smith, Andrew D. M.

Smith, Kenny.

Ferrer i Cancho, Ramon.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the Evolution of Language (7th : 2008 : Barcelona, Spain)

International Conference on the Evolution of Language.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Origin--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 513 p. ) ill.

Other Title:

EVOLANG7

Place of Publication:

[Hacksensack], N.J. : World Scientific, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Is pointing the root of the foot? Grounding the "prosodic word" as a pointing word / Christian Abry and 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 and Paula Buttery

Modelling language competition: bilingualism and complex social networks / Xavier Castello ... [et al.]

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 and 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 and William S-Y. Wang

The role of naming game in social structure / Tao Gong and 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 and 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 and Camilla Power

Language scaffolding as a condition for growth in linguistic complexity / Kiran Lakkaraju, Les Gasser and 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 and 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 and 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 and 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 ... [et al.]

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 and Simon Kirby

Syntax, a system of efficient growth / Alona Soschen

Simple, but not too simple: learnability vs. functionality in language evolution / Samarth Swarup and Les Gasser

Kin selection and linguistic complexity / Maggie Tallerman

Regularity in mappings between signals and meanngs / M�onica Tamariz and Andrew D. M. Smith

Emergence of sentence types in simulated adaptive agents / Ryoko Uno ... [et al.]

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 and Przemystaw �Zywiczy�nski

Self-interested agents can bootstrap symbolic communication if they punish cheaters / Emily Wang and 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 and Robert I. Damper

How does Niche construction in learning environment trigger the reverse Baldwin effect? / Hajime Tamauchi

Coexisting linguistic conventions in generalized language games / Andrea Baronchelli ... [et al.]

Complex systems approach to natural categorization / Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto and Andrea Puglisi

Regular morphology as a cultural adaptation: non-uniform frequency in an experimental iterated learning model / Arianita Beqa, Simon Kirby and 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 and Richard W. Byrne

Taking Wittgenstein seriously: indicators of the evolution of language / Camilo J. Cela-Conde ... [et al.]

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 and 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 and Thomas L. Griffiths

Evolution of song culture in the zebra finch / Olga Feher ... [et al.]

Iterated language learning in children / Molly Flaherty and 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 and Masaya Nakatsuka

Recent adaptive evolution of human genes related to hearing / John Hawks

Inhibition and language: a pre-condition for symbolic communicative behaviour / Carlos Hern�andez-Sacrist�an

Pragmatic plasticity: a pivotal design feature? / Stefan Hoefler

Continuity between non-human primates and modern humans? / Jean-Marie Hombert

After all, 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 and James Steele

Accent over race: the role of language in guiding children's early social preferences / Katherine D. Kinzler ... [et al.]

Language, culture and biology: does language evolve to 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 and Les Gasser

The development of a social signal in free-ranging chimpanzees / Marion Laporte and Klaus Zuberb�uhler

Gestural modes of representation - a multi-disciplinary approach / Katja Liebal ... [et al.]

Extracommunicative functions of language: verbal interference causes categorization impairments / Gary Lupyan

Form-meaning compositionality derives from social and conceptual diversity / Gary Lupyan and Rick Dale

Language as kluge / Gary Marcus

Origins of communication in autonomous robots / Davide Marocco and Stefano Nolfi

Handedness for gestural communication and non-communicative actions in chimpanzees and baboons: implications for language origins / Adrien Meguerditchian ... [et al.]

The evolution of hypothetical reasoning: intelligibility or reliability? / Hugo Mercier

Simulation of creolization by evolutionary dynamics / Makoto Nakamura, Takashi Hashimoto and Satoshi Tojo

Evolution of phonological complexity: loss of species-specific bias leads to more generalized learnability in a species of songbirds / Kazuo Okanoya and Miki Takahashi

Referential gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: precursors to symbolic communication? / Simone Pika and John C. Mitani

Modeling language emergence by way of working memory / Alessio Plebe, Vivian De la Cruz and Marco Mazzone

Mechanistic language circuits: what can be learned? what is pre-wired? / Friedemann Pulverm�uller

Reflections on the invention and reinvention of the primate playback experiment / Greg Radick

An experimental approach to the r�ole of Freerider Avoidance in the development of linguistic diversity / Gareth Roberts

Prosody and linguistic complexity in an emerging language / Wendy Sandler ... [et al.]

Communication, cooperation and coherence putting mathematical models into perspective / Federico Sangati and Jelle Zuidema

A numerosity-based alarm call system in King Colobus monkeys / Anne Schel, Klaus Zuberb�uhler and Sandra Tranquilli

On there and then: from object permanence to displaced reference / Marieke Schouwstra

Signalling signalhood and the emergence of communication / Thomas C. Scott-Phillips, Simon Kirby and Graham R. S. Ritchie

Wild chimpanzees modify the structure of victim screams according to audience composition / Katie E. Slocombe and Klaus Zuberb�uhler. An experimental study on the role of language in the emergence and maintenance of human cooperation / John W. F. Small and Simon Kirby

Replicator dynamics of language processing / Luc Steels and E�ors Szathm�ary

Syntactical and prosodic cues in song segmentation learning by Bengalese finches / Miki Takahashi and Kazuo Okanoya

Why the transition to cumulative symbolic culture is rare / M�onica Tamariz

A gradual path to hierarchical phrase-structure: insights from modeling and corpus-data / Willem Zuidema.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611928988

9781281928986

1281928984

9789812776129

9812776125