Author Archives: Kevin
Tue 11th January, 11.00-12.30, M3 (room no. 1.05) Appleton Tower Ashley Micklos (UCLA) & Yasamin Motamedi Gestural communication in the laboratory Homesign systems and emerging sign languages offer insight into linguistic systems in their earliest stages of development. Recent research on Nicaraguan Sign Language and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language have allowed an understanding of the [...]
Tue 28th January, 11.00-12.30, M3 (room no. 1.05) Appleton Tower Vanessa Ferdinand On the coevolution of culture and cognition Human behavioral artifacts, such as language, music, institutions, laws, and technologies, all change over time. Why do we use different slang than our parents, why don’t we all know the same songs, and why do we update our software? One [...]
Tue 14th January, 11-12.30, M3 Appleton Tower The lexicon as a dynamical system: Lexical competition and the evolution of phoneme inventories Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) All human languages make use of small systems of signal categories, such as the sounds [p] and [b], in combination to compose meaningful lexical categories, such as the words ‘pat’ [...]