Tuesday 9th May Carel ten Cate
2 p.m.
Song in Songbirds: A Window on Language?
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Ten Cate Abstract [pdf] (10 KB)
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Tuesday 2nd May
Robert van Rooij
The evolution of conventional meaning and conversational principles
2 p.m.
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van Rooij Abstract [pdf] (8 KB)
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Tuesday 25th April Wouter Kusters - "Prehistoric Language in Oblivion"
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Abstract [pdf] (9 KB)
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Tuesday 18th April
Arie Verhagen - "Is linguistic meaning an evolutionary miracle?"
4 p.m.
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Abstract [pdf] (10 KB)
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Tuesday 11th April Beppie van den Bogaerde and Victoria Nyst
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Abstract "The Kajana Sign Language of Surinam" - Beppie van den Bogaerde [pdf] (10 KB)
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Abstract- "The parameter 'Deaf community in sign language evolution ? the case of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana)" -Victoria Nyst [pdf] (36 KB)
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Friday 24 March 2006
Workshop
"The expression of temporality in Restricted Language Systems and beyond"
Participants:
Philip Baker,
Christine Dimroth,
Wolfgang Klein,
Daniel Véronique
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Program and Abstracts [pdf] (81 KB)
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Tuesday 14th March Riny Huybregts "Development and evolution of human language: an argument from design"
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Abstract [pdf] (13 KB)
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Tuesday 24th January
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14:00 Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam)
"The grammaticalization of auxiliaries in sign languages"
15:00 Asli Özyürek (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen)
" From gesture to language: Emergence of a new (sign) language in Nicaragua"
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Abstract, Roland Pfau "The Grammaticalization of Auxiliaries in Sign Languages" [pdf] (11 KB)
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Abstract, Asli Özyürek "From gesture to language: How did a new (sign) language emerge in Nicaragua?" [pdf] (0 B)
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Friday 9th December 2005
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Workshop: "Evidence for Evolution from Genetics and Cognitive Neuroscience"
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Program [pdf] (10 KB)
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Abstract: Peter de Knijff et al, "Language and Genes of the Greater Himalayan Region: mapping and correlating linguistic-, genetic- and geographic barriers" [pdf] (20 KB)
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Abstract: Ivan Toni, " On the mirror neuron system and the cerebral basis of communication" [pdf] (8 KB)
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Thursday 8th December 2005
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"How did they talk? Reconstructing Early Language"
Lecturers: Bernd Heine, Professor Emeritis of African Linguistics, University of Cologne and
Christa Koenig, lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the University of Frankfurt.
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Information [pdf] (10 KB)
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Wednesday December 7th 2005
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Stephen Mithen: "The Cognitive Origins of Music and Language"
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10am
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Herengracht 182, Amsterdam
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Lecture at 8pm in CREA Theatre, Turfdraagsterpad 17, Amsterdam
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Tuesday 22nd November 2005
"Child Language in Language Evolution"
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2pm
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Lecturer: Dan I. Slobin, Professor of the Graduate School
Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics,
Univeristy of California, Berkeley
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"From Ontogenesis to Phylogenesis: What can child language tell us about language evolution?", Dan I. Slobin (To appear) [pdf] (956 KB)
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Thursday 17 November 2005
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2pm
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Lecturer: Ulrike Zeshan, Project Director,
Sign Language Typology Reseach Group,
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Information [pdf] (66 KB)
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Tuesday 15th November 2005
"Typological Diversity in Sign Languages"
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The Sign Language Window on Language Genesis
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Seminar with Anne Baker and Bencie Woll
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4pm
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Information [pdf] (14 KB)
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The Sign Language Window on Language Genesis - Powerpoint Presentation [pdf] (545 KB)
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