Screen LibraryThe Evolution of Language : proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9), Kyoto, Japan, 13 - 16 March 2012 /
This volume contains the proceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8449#t=toc |
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This volume contains the proceedings of Evolang IX, the 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. The Evolang conferences are the leading international conferences for new findings in the study of the origins and evolution of language. They attract a multidisciplinary audience. The proceedings are an important resource for researchers in the field. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii,580pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789814401500 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | H0-05 |
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Evolutionary parallels between language and tool use / Michael A. Arbib -- Cortico-cortical and cortico-cerebellar computations in language change / Giorgos P. Argyropoulos -- Towards language acquisition by cognitive developmental robotics / Minoru Asada -- Protolanguage, discrete infinity and interfaces: investigating the evolution of the language and music faculty within the minimalist program / Rie Asano -- Language and friendships: a co-evolution model of social and linguistic conventions / Martin Bachwerk & Carl Vogel -- Campbell's monkeys alarm calls are not morpheme-based / Lluis Barcelo-Coblijn & Antoni Gomila -- On the inference 'Neanderthals had FOXP2 = they had complex language' / Antonio Benitez-Burraco & Victor M. Longa -- The impact of L2 speakers on the evolution of case marking / Christian Bentz & Bodo Winter -- Introducing pressure for expressivity into language evolution experiments / Aleksandrs Berdicevskis -- The evolution of the Greenbergian word order correlations / Jeremy Collins -- Semiotic investigations into early forms of symbolism and language / Christophe Coupe -- Sea crossings are an unreliable indicator of language ability in hominids / Cory Cuthbertson & Luke McCrohon -- Overgeneralization of verbs - the change of the German verb system / Marisa Delz ... [et al.] -- Was the introduction of writing an evolutionary transition? / Jan Terje Faarlund -- Medium and long-run properties of linguistic community evolution / Michael J. Fox, Georgios Piliouras & Jeff S. Shamma -- Scales, salience and referential safety: the benefit of communicating the extreme / Michael Franke -- Non-human primates cannot decontextualize and objectify the actions of their conspecifics / Tom Froese, Takashi Ikegami & Mike Beaton -- How did predication evolve? / David Gil -- Individual and social effects on linguistic diffusion / Tao Gong, Monica Tamariz & Gerhard Jager -- Ontogeny of two communicative tools: distance encoding & multimodality in deictic pointing / Chloe Gonseth, Anne Vilain & Coriandre Vilain -- Speech development in previously aphonic children after airway reconstruction recapitulates evolution of spoken language / Caroline N. Green ... [et al.] -- Syntax evolved gradually / James R. Hurford -- The case for Neanderthal language - how strong is it? / Sverker Johansson -- Meanings of touching object parts in pointing / Harumi Kobayashi & Tetsuya Yasuda -- The evolution of morphology and the diversity of grammatical systems / Anja Latrouite -- What's the scope of the Naming Game? Constraints on semantic categorization / Andy Lucking & Alexander Mehler -- The origins of linguistic predicate/argument structure / Erkki Luuk -- The voice of things: the revolution of human language and its origin from sound imitation / Giuseppe Maiorano. Empirical approaches to recursion / Mauricio Martins & W. Tecumseh Fitch -- Outgroup: the study of chimpanzees to know the human mind / Tetsuro Matsuzawa -- A modulation-demodulation model for speech communication and its emergence / Nobuaki Minematsu -- Signaling conventions: who learns what where and when in a social network? / Roland Muhlenbernd & Michael Franke -- Hominin cooperation and language evolution / Albert F. H. Naccache -- Morphing social communication networks from chimpanzee to human type / Sara A. Najem, Jihad R. Touma & Albert F. H. Naccache -- Gesture and the origins of language / Dillon Niederhut -- Ambiguity resolution and evolution of word order / Mieko Ogura & William S.-Y. Wang -- When recursion collapses: evidence from discourse interaction / Toshio Ohori -- Cognitive construal, mental spaces and the evolution of language and cognition / Michael Pleyer -- Spatial dynamics of language / Archishman Raju -- Are web search queries an evolving protolanguage? / Rishiraj Saha Roy, Monojit Choudhury & Kalika Bali -- Language change in socially structured populations / Ruth Schulz, Matthew Whittington & Janet Wiles -- Language lateralization, categorical perception and language evolution / Lan Shuai & Tao Gong -- Potential stages in the cultural evolution of spatial language / Michael Spranger -- Visual artificial grammar learning: comparative research on humans and birds / Nina Stobbe & Tecumseh W. Fitch -- Syntax of mind - Semantics of mind: two frameworks for comparative approaches to the evolution of language and music / Sun Xiaoxia & Seifert Uwe -- Displacement in communication / Kaori Tamura & Takashi Hashimoto -- The emergence of morphosyntactic case systems / Remi van Trijp -- Holistic or synthetic protolanguage: evidence from iterated learning of whistled signals / Tessa Verhoef, Bart de Boer & Simon Kirby -- The information rate of modern speech and its implications for language evolution / John Villasenor ... [et al.] -- Robustness as a design feature of speech communication / Bodo Winter & Morten H. Christiansen -- The cooperative nature of conversation: evidence from conversational exchanges / Przemyslaw Zywiczynski & Slawomir Wacewicz -- Postnatal acquirement of the ability to discriminate culturaly shared song syntax in songbirds / Kentaro Abe -- A simple integrated framework for investigating genetic and cultural evolution of language / Tsubasa Azumagakito, Reiji Suzuki & Takaya Arita -- An adaptationist approach to the audience design hypothesis / Rachael Bailes -- The exponent of Zipf's law in language ontogeny / Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho & Brita Elvevag -- Reconciling the diversity of languages with the biological uniformity of their speakers / Andrea Baronchelli ... [et al.] -- Homo combinans / Cedric Boeckx. The effects of modified variables on an iterated learning model of linguistic evolution by cultural transmission / Jon William Carr -- Is pantomime a likely stage in language evolution? Evidence from human and primate gesture / Erica A. Cartmill & Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Is And a fossil?: coordination and the origin of compositionality / Wayne Cowart ... [et al.] -- The first word was not a noun / Cory Cuthbertson -- Iconicity in structured form and meaning spaces / Bart de Boer -- Neither nature nor nurture: coevolution, devolution, and universality of language / Terrence W. Deacon -- Comparative histological data between the vocal folds of humans and bonobo / Didier Demolin & Sergio Hassid -- On some parallels between the vocal apparatus and musical instruments, and their consequences for the evolution of language and music / Jose Roberto do Carmo Jr. -- Topographic learning and the arbitrary, categorial lexicon / T. Mark Ellison -- Social interaction is critical to the evolution of human communication systems (and why) / Nicholas Fay, Bradley Walker & Alan Bailey -- Searching for substance in the Baldwin Effect: when learning causally affects genetic adaptation / Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith -- Molecular windows into speech and language / Simon E. Fisher -- Me to we: cooperation, conflict, and the evolution of language / Jacob G. Foster -- A search for metacognition in avians / Kazuo Fujita -- Simulating the coevolution of language and joint attention / Tao Gong & Lan Shuai -- Neutral models for language evolution / Thomas L. Griffiths -- Paleogenomics and the vocal auditory channel in archaic humans / John Hawks -- Infants' own-cry perception for language acquisition / Reiko Hoshi-Shiba ... [et al.] -- Evolution of symbolic communication in the perceptual crossing experiment / Hiroyuki Iizuka ... [et al.] -- Recent archeological evidence suggests much earlier emergence of human UG / Masayuki Ike-uchi -- Sound symbolism helps infants' word learning / Mutsumi Imai ... [et al.] -- Male gibbons change the note order according to the behavioral situations / Yoichi Inoue ... [et al.] -- Triadic niche construction: a scenario of human brain evolution realizing tool-use and language / Atsushi Iriki -- Phase theory and the role of cognitive constraints in the maximal expansion of syntactic trees / Aritz Irurtzun -- Modelling the evolution of creoles / Fredrik Jansson, Mikael Parkvall & Pontus Strimling -- Innate template difference could induce signal complexity: a comparison of song features under auditory isolation between wild and domesticated finches / Hiroko Kagawa ... [et al.] -- The role of STS in mimetic-word processing: sound symbolism or biological motion? / Junko Kanero ... [et al.]. A parsimonious representation with hidden states for birdsong syntax: an implication to human syntax evolution / Kentaro Katahira ... [et al.] -- Expression analysis of language-related genes in the common marmoset brain / Masaki Kato ... [et al.] -- Song memory including sequential information in male Bengalese finches auditory area / Yoko Kato, Masaki Kato & Kazuo Okanoya -- Pitch intervals in relation to the origin of language / Ai Kawakami, Kiyoshi Furukawa & Kazuo Okanoya -- Minimization of Universal Grammar, reliance on third factor principles, and feasibility of inquiry into evolutionary origins / Hisatsugu Kitahara -- Why language has structure: new evidence from studying cultural evolution in the lab and what it means for biological evolution / Simon Kirby -- How is pragmatic grounding formed in symbolic communication systems? / Takeshi Konno, Junya Morita & Takashi Hashimoto -- The evolution of morphological agreement / Richard Littauer -- Re-dating the loss of laryngeal air sacs in Homo sapiens / Richard Littauer -- On the origin of the hierarchy of color names / Vittorio Loreto, Animesh Mukherjee & Francesca Tria -- The meaning of nonsense words / Gary Lupyan & Daniel Casasanto -- Nonhuman primates do declare! Declaratives as evidence for mental time-travel in apes / Heidi Lyn ... [et al.] -- Building a language-competent species: contributions of brain and environment to cognition and communication in apes and monkeys / Heidi Lyn ... [et al.] -- Dynamic expression of cadherins controls vocal learning / Eiji Matsunaga ... [et al.] -- Simulating the effects of cultural coadaptation on rates of endogenous and exogenous language change / Luke McCrohon -- The Drosophila FoxP gene is required for operant self-learning: implications for the evolution of language / Ezequiel Mendoza ... [et al.] -- The evolution of miscommunication / Gregory J. Mills -- The Gricean intentional structure of ape gestural communication / Richard Moore -- Cerebral laterality for prosody processing in human neonates: evidence from multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy / Nozomi Naoi ... [et al.] -- The irreducible semantic communicative drive: imagination and culture beyond the hands / Rafael Nunez -- Structural reanalysis of responses to musical tonality: commonality with the neural processing of emotion in language / Hidefumi Ohmura ... [et al.] -- Failure of operant discrimination learning of simple algebraic concept in a songbird / Kazuo Okanoya, Kenta Suzuki & Yoshimasa Seki -- Rodent ultrasonic vocalization as a model of human speech: a molecular and cellular view / Noriko Osumi -- Parrots as models for language evolution / Irene M. Pepperberg -- A model of the evolution of frequent social communication / Justin Quillinan. Recursivity is a by-product of associative learning and working memory constraints: evidence from baboons (Papio papio) / Arnaud Rey, Pierre Perruchet & Joel Fagot -- A bottom-up approach to language evolution / Sean G. Roberts -- The nature of coordination: evidence from Russian / Tatiana Romanchishina & Kathryn H. Thompson -- No words without syntax no syntax without words / Joana Rossello ... [et al.] -- Out of the brains of babes: domain-general learning mechanisms and domain-specific systems / Jenny Saffran -- Evolution of 'small-world' birdsong syntax: an implication for language evolution / Kazutoshi Sasahara, Martin L. Cody & Charles E. Taylor -- How do communication systems emerge, and what does this tell us about language? / Thomas C. Scott-Phillips -- The origin of the learning system of sequential vocalizations: neural activity of basal-ganglia in singing behavior and a cognitive task in songbirds / Yoshimasa Seki, Neal A. Hessler & Kazuo Okanoya -- Simulating language convergence / Lan Shuai, Tao Gong & Umberto Ansaldo -- Linguistic replicators: a wild goose chase? / Andrew D. M. Smith -- Iterated learning in populations: learning and evolving expectations about linguistic homogeneity / Kenny Smith & Bill Thompson -- Regularization of linguistic variation in populations / Kenny Smith, Elizabeth Wonnacott & Amy Perfors -- Abductive inference and insight in the evolution of symbolic communication / Justin Sulik -- Grammaticalization, light verbs, and the origins of complex language / John D. Sundquist -- Divergence and convergence in vocal cultures / Miki Takahasi ... [et al.] -- Replication and emergence processes in language evolution / Monica Tamariz -- The effects of generation turnover and interlocutor negotiation on linguistic structure / Monica Tamariz ... [et al.] -- Cultural evolution renders linguistic nativism implausible / Bill Thompson, Kenny Smith & Simon Kirby -- Naming a structured world: a cultural route to duality of patterning / Francesca Tria, Bruno Galantucci & Vittorio Loreto -- Neural correlates of song perception during Zebra finch song learning as shown by bold fMRI / Anne van der Kant & Annemie van der Linden -- Human non-lexical vocal events and prosody in the perspective of language evolution / Anne Vanpe & Didier Demolin -- Biased copying in the evolution of human communication systems / Bradley Walker, Nicolas Fay & T. Mark Ellison -- Emotion, approach-avoidance motivation, and blending in the evolution of language / Paul A. Wilson & Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk -- The myth surrounding the ban by Societe de Linguistique de Paris / Hajime Yamauchi, Terrence W. Deacon & Kazuo Okanoya -- Why language evolved only once / Charles Yang -- Intersubjectivity as the key precondition for language: its evolution (and possible devolution) / Jordan Zlatev. |