WORKSHOP PROGRAM
DAY 1
MAY 25
17:00 - 18:15
Invited Speaker:
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Prof. Ann Senghas
"The rise and fall of analogical aspects of meaning in language creation"
18:15 - 18:30
Break
18:30 - 20:00
Paper Session 1
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"Evaluating models of referring expression production on an emerging sign language"
by Leyla Kürşat, Brandon Waldon, Rabia Ergin, and Judith Degen
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"Amplifying the bias to order Nouns before Adjectives in language: Evidence from emerging sign language and silent gesture studies"
by Monica L. Do, Simon Kirby, and Susan Goldin-Meadow
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"Cognitive biases differ in improvisation and learning of noun phrase word order"
by Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, and Jennifer Culbertson
20:00 - 20:15
Break
20:15 - 21:30
Invited Speaker:
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Prof. Simon Kirby
"From Item to System: how cultural evolution creates linguistic structure in an iconic modality"
DAY 2
MAY 26
17:00 - 18:15
Invited Speaker:
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Prof. Ray Jackendoff
“What can you say without syntax? A hierarchy of grammatical complexity.”
18:15 - 18:30
Break
18:30 - 20:00
Paper Session 2
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"Computational modelling of contact languages: the emergence and spread of creole and its lexical entries on complex language ecology and sociolinguistic context"
by Ching-Yat Cheung and Christophe Coupé
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"Correlations between Grammatical and Sociopolitical Complexity: Some Empirical Studies"
by David Gil
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"Cognitive and genetic correlates of a single macro-parameter of crosslinguistic variation"
by Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Candy Cahuana, David Gil, Ljiljana Progovac, Jana Reifegerste, and Tatiana Tatarinova
20:00 - 20:15
Break
20:15 - 21:30
Invited Speaker:
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Prof. Adele Goldberg
"Accessibility and emergent generalizations: how uncles and aunts became aunts and uncles"
21:30 - 21:40
Break
21:40 - 22:30
Flash Talks
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"Z numeracy"
by John B. Haviland
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"Cognitive and social factors in agent-based models of conversational priming in repetitional responses"
by Peter Dekker, Sonja Gipper, and Bart de Boer
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"How to Scale up Models of Language Emergence and Evolution"
by Remi van Trijp
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"Co-evolutionary links between linguistic alignment and cooperation –an experimental study"
by Theresa Matzinger, Marek Placiński, Adam Gutowski, Mariusz Lewandowski, Przemyslaw Zywiczynski, and Sławomir Wacewicz
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"Pointing modes in gesture and sign. An analytic framework"
by Olivier Le Guen
DAY 3
MAY 27
17:00 - 18:30
Paper Session 3
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"The role of cross-cultural differences in the emergence of referential strategies in artificial sign languages"
by Danielle Naegeli, David Peeters, Emiel Krahmer, Marieke Schouwstra, Yasamin Motamedi, and Connie de Vos
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"Evidence of an emergent classifier system in Zinacantec Family Homesign"
by Austin German
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"Reiterative codeswitching in Cena as emergent Agent-Marking"
by Diane Stoianov, Anderson Almeida-Silva, and Andrew Nevins
18:30 - 18:45
Break
18:45 - 20:30
General discussion with invited speakers
20:30 - 20:40
Break
20:40 - 21:30
"The Signed Origin of Language"
Documentary featuring Central Taurus Sign Language
21:30 - 21:40
Closure