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Hi Everyone, Tomorrow, our visiting PhD student Maria Grazia Rossi will be giving the LEC talk. Tuesday 1st November, 11.00-12.30 DHT Conference Room Against Identification of Language Change and Language Evolution The idea that learnability, cultural stability and transmissibility of languages are basic constraints to understanding the issues of the evolution and origins of the [...]
*** NOTE: UNUSUAL VENUE *** This week’s LEC talk will be from our brand-new PhD student, Alan Nielsen. He’ll be talking about his previous work on evaluating sound-symbolism (particularly the takete-maluma or bouba-kiki phenomenon, where certain non-words are said to universally match to particular novel shapes). Time: Tuesday 25th October, 11.00 – 12.30 Place: DHT [...]
We’ve got a real treat for you tomorrow. In our usual slot, we have our academic visitor Andy Wedel, and then another talk in the afternoon from the MSc external examiner, Bart de Boer! 11:00 – 12:30, 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building: Andy Wedel 14:00 – 15:00, S37 7 George Square: Bart de Boer. Andy’s talk [...]
We have a visiting speaker who, at the last minute, is able to give us a talk which is likely to be interesting to LEC people. It will be tomorrow (Friday) from 2.00-3.00 in Appleton Tower room 2.05. Language viewed from Mars:A statistical universal of human languages and their psychological implications Fermin Moscoso del Prado [...]
Kenny Smith has been chosen amongst the first members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. The RSE said: “A rigorous selection procedure resulted in 68 young academics, entrepreneurs and professionals being chosen to be the first members in Scotland. The Young Academy will be launched at a ceremony in Edinburgh in [...]
The next LEC talk will be given by Bill Thompson on “Evolutionary Arguments Against Linguistic Nativism“. It will be on Tuesday 4th October, 11.00-12.30, Room 1.17 DSB. Hope to see you all there! Simon
Tomorrow (Tuesday), Nic will be giving a short talk about on an in press paper that examines the transmission of information in different types of transmission chains (non-interactive, interactive). Tan, R., & Fay, N. (in press). Cultural transmission in the laboratory: Agent interaction improves the intergenerational transfer of information. Evolution & Human Behavior. We’ll be in [...]
Our first LEC meeting of the new academic year is next Tuesday in DSB 1.17 at 11.00-12.30. Sean will be giving us a talk about his current PhD topic. — “The implications of Bilingualism for Language Evolution” Children are good at learning multiple languages simultaneously. However, learning an extra language leaves the speaker potentially no [...]
Next week, Keelin will be giving a dry run of her talk of the Protolang conference, summarising the results from her recent experiments on correlations between rhythmic learning and fitness. The title is: “Musical protolanguage put to the test” Keelin Murray DSB 1.17, Tuesday 30th August, 11:00 See you all there! Simon
Two talks from two Simons next Tuesday at the LEC! —- “Linguistic structure is the adaptive compromise between communication and learning: new evidence from simulation and experiments” Simon Kirby, 11.00-12.30, 1.17 DSB This will be a summary a bunch of new computational and experimental results that touch on issues such as the role of horizontal [...]