Please find below details of a one-day symposium
on the topic of "Integrating Genetic and Cultural Approaches to
Language". We would be grateful if you could forward these details to
potentially interested colleagues/postgraduates.
http://sites.google.com/site/cee2010symposium/
The website is now online for registration and/or poster abstract
submission and/or hotel accomodation booking in nearby Stratford
(special reduced rate).
The symposium has generated a lot of interest so we strongly advise
early booking - the symposium is limited to 100 participants.
Best regards,
Alan McElligott
Alex Mesoudi
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
CEE 2010 Symposium - Integrating Genetic and Cultural Approaches to
Language
Date: Friday, 26th February 2010 (9am-5pm)
Location: The Octagon, Queen Mary University of London
Description:
This symposium will ask how the diverse and complex languages of today
evolved from a non-linguistic ancestral state, encompassing both
genetic evolution (of the language faculty) and cultural evolution (of
languages themselves). Topics to be addressed include comparative
studies of vocal communication in birds, ungulates and primates, the
genetic and neurobiological basis of human speech and language,
cognitive influences on language evolution, and phylogenetic analyses
of language history.
Speakers and talk titles:
Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna - Language Evolution: Testing the
Hypotheses with Comparative and Genetic Data
Simon Fisher, University of Oxford - Molecular windows into speech and
language
Chris Petkov, University of Newcastle - Communication and the primate
brain: Insights from comparing the neuroimaging evidence in humans,
chimpanzees and macaques
Gabriel Beckers, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology - Mechanisms of
bird vocal production, perception and learning: a comparison to speech
and language.
Katie Slocombe, University of York - Primate vocal communication: links
to human language?
Mark Pagel, Reading University - Language as a Culturally Transmitted
Replicator
Kenny Smith, Northumbria University - Language evolution in the lab
Fiona Jordan, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Kinship
terminology and the evolution of semantic systems
Nick Chater, University College London - Cultural Evolution and
Language Acquisition
Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - Are languages
really independent from genes? If not, what would a genetic bias
affecting language diversity look like?
http://sites.google.com/site/cee2010symposium/
Conference support:
The Centre for Ecology and Evolution
The Galton Institute
The Genetics Society
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, QMUL
Department of Linguistics, QMUL
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Dr. Alan McElligott
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
Tel. + 44 (0)20 7882 8883
Fax + 44 (0)20 8983 0973
http://sites.google.com/site/alanmcelligott/
http://www.sbcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/alanmcelligott.html
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