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Note unusual venue. Joint LEC/P-workshop talk by Morgan Sonderegger (University of Chicago), on “Longitudinal phonetic and phonological dynamics on reality television”. Abstract below. Tuesday 8th May, 11am-12.30, DSB 3.10/3.11. Morgan Sonderegger (University of Chicago) “Longitudinal phonetic and phonological dynamics on reality television” There has been much recent interest in to what extent an individual’s phonetics [...]
We will discuss a Nisbett & Miyamoto paper on cultural influences on perception (full details below). Tuesday 1st May, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17. Nisbett, R. E. & Miyamoto, Y. (2005). The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 467-473. Available here.
Alan Nielsen will be leading a discussion of a recent paper by Monaghan et al, titled “The arbitrariness of the sign: Learning advantages from the structure of the vocabulary” (full details below). Tuesday 24th, 11am-12.30, DSB 1.17. Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H., & Fitneva, S.A. (2011). The arbitrariness of the sign: Learning advantages from the structure [...]
Sean Roberts and Justin Quillinan will discuss a side-project they have been working on, comparing working memory in chimps and humans (see http://www.replicatedtypo.com/the-qhimp-qhallenge-working-memory-in-humans-and-chimpanzees/4947.html for background). Tuesday 17th, 11am, DSB 1.17.
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 [...]