Author Archives: Kenny
Bill Thompson will be leading a discussion of a recent paper by Laland et al, titled “Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr’s Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?”. Tuesday 3rd, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17
We have two LEC sessions on 20th and 21st March, featuring four dry-runs of EHBEA presentations. The details are: Tuesday 20th, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17 Kenny Smith, “Regularization of linguistic variation in populations” Keelin Murray, “Musical learning as a signal of cognitive fitness: A sequential signalling precursor to language?” Wednesday 21st, 1pm-2.30pm, DSB 1.17 Hannah Cornish, [...]
Prof. Simon Kirby has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh – congratulations Simon!
Thom Scott-Phillips and Justin Sulik will be running through their evolang presentations (see below for titles). After the talks (which should take us up to 12ish) we will have a poster session where people who want to preview their evolang posters can do so – I think we have the room till 1pm, which should [...]
Sean Roberts and Justin Quillinan will be running through their talks for Evolang: 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17, talk titles below. Justin Quillinan: A model of the evolution of frequent social communication Sean Roberts: Constructing Knowledge: Nomothetic Approaches to Language Evolution
We’re taking a week off before getting into the mood for Evolang.
Catriona Silvey, who is a 1st year PhD student in the LEC, is giving the next LEC talk. Room G06, DSB, from 11:00-12:30 on Tuesday February 14th. Talk title is “Context effects on meaning space structure”, Catriona says “I will argue that the conceptual structure of a given meaning space is not determined solely by [...]
Our next LEC talk will by James Thomas, who is a PhD student here in the LEC. It’ll be in room G06, DSB, from 11:00-12:30. The talk title is ”Self-domestication and language evolution: an overview”, James says “I will present an overview of the argument that human self-domestication played a role in laying the biological foundations [...]