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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
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 [...]
Katie Slocombe (University of York) is giving a short series of guest lectures next week, on animal communication (vocal and gestural communication in the wild, referential communication, signal combinations). These lectures are primarily intended for students on the Masters in the Evolution of Language and Cognition, but all are welcome to attend. The times and [...]
For our last meeting of the year, Kenny Smith will be giving a talk on his work on regularisation entitled: “Regularization of unpredictable variation”. 1.17 DSB, 11:00-12:30 See you all there, if you’re still around! Simon P.S. For bonus points, see if you can spot the unpredictable variation within this message.
Our next LEC talk will be from George Athanasopoulos, a PhD student in the Department of Music. George is particularly keen to see if there are points of contact between his work and ours in the LEC. It’ll be in room 1.17, DSB, from 11:00-12:30 as usual. His title is: “Does literacy makes a difference? [...]
For tomorrow’s LEC talk, Justin Quillinan will be talking about: “Modelling the Evolution of Gossip”. For this talk (and the next two) we’ll be back in 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building. Usual time: 11.00-12.30 See you there! Simon
***NOTE (EVEN MORE) UNUSUAL ROOM*** For next week’s talk, in his last week at the LEC, Nic will lead a presentation of the work he has been doing in collaboration with Monica and me while he’s been here on his sabbatical. The title is: “Evidence for selection in the evolution of human communication systems”. B21, [...]
After a couple of weeks’ break, we’re back with a talk from Hannah Rohde, our new pragmatics lecturer. ***NOTE UNUSUAL VENUE!*** Nov 22nd, 11:00-12:30, 8.16 David Hume Tower Conventionalizing ambiguity: Testing predictions of a game-theoretic model of pragmatic inference Hannah Rohde (joint work with Brady Clark, Gerhard Jaeger, Stefan Kaufmann, & Scott Seyfarth) Abstract: In order [...]