Author Archives: Kenny
Catriona Silvey will be talking about her plans for the next stage of her PhD research: “The communicative origin of structured meanings: an experimental paradigm for testing the shareability hypothesis”, Tuesday 23rd October, 11am, DSB 1.17.
LEC meeting Monday 15th October: talk by Caroline Heycock and Joel Wallenberg
By Kenny | October 11, 2012
Note unusual day, time, venue. Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh) and Joel Wallenberg (Newcastle) will present their joint work on “Acquisition, Ambiguity and Diachronic change: a case study from Germanic syntax”. Monday 15th December, 4pm, 7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 3.
Bart de Boer (http://ai.vub.ac.be/members/bart) is in town and will give a talk on “Is unbiased learning possible?”, abstract below. Wednesday 10th October, 11am, Medical School, Doorway 4, Room G.16 (that’s approximately here: http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/buildings/medical-school). “Is unbiased learning possible?” In the literature on Bayesian iterated learning, two different methods of going from a sample of observations to [...]
Talk by Sean Roberts, “The ability to learn two languages evolved before the ability to learn one”. Tuesday 9th October, 11am, DSB 1.17.
Keelin Murray will be previewing at talk she’ll be giving at the Fitch lab in Vienna, titled “Language, music, and cognitive fitness: an evolutionary interaction”. Tuesday 25th September, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17.
We’ll kick off the new semester with a talk by Alan Nielsen, “Systematicity and the structure of the lexicon: Implications for learning and the evolution of language”, Tuesday 18th September, 11am, DSB 1.17.
Simon Kirby will be previewing a 30-minute talk he’ll be giving at an upcoming Wenner-Gren Symposium: “Cultural transmission explains why language and other human behaviours have structure”, Monday 3rd September, 11am, DSB 1.17. Note unusual day and time!
Keelin will be previewing a 45-minute talk she’ll be giving later in the day at the Institute for Music in Human Social Development: ”Did Music precede language in human evolution? Empirical Tests”, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17.
Katja, who is a visiting MSc student from the University of Amsterdam, will be talking about the work she’s been doing in her time here: “From Gestures to Signs: Iconicity, Regularization, Embodiment”, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17.