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Elizabeth Wonnacott (BA postdoc in Experimental Psychology at Oxford) is in town next week, she is giving a talk on “Constraining generalisation in artificial language learning“, Thursday 9th June, 11am, DSB 1.17. She’ll also be around Friday, let Kenny know if you’d like to meet with her while she’s here.
On Tuesday 7th June from 11-12.30 in room 1.17 DSB, Erin Brown will give a talk on her thesis work: Where do symbols come from? A central issue in language origins is the emergence of symbolic communication. Recognizing the problems associated with establishing symbolic reference, many authors have proposed that nonarbitrary communication must have preceded [...]
Dan Yurovsky (PhD student in the Cognitive Development Lab in Indiana, working with Chen Yu & Linda Smith) is visiting next week and will be giving the LEC talk: “Learning words in the lab and in the world: the role of statistical information”, Tuesday 31st May, 11am, DSB 1.17. He’s here Monday to Thursday, so [...]
Tommorow’s LEC talk will be given by Anna Martowicz, “The last step in the evolution of modern language – some findings and thoughts”, abstract below. Tuesday 24th, 11am, DSB 1.17 The last step in the evolution of modern language – some findings and thoughts In this talk I summarize the findings of my cross-linguistic PhD [...]
Sean will be giving a talk this week about a paper he’s working on with James Winters on the relationship between social structure and language structure. As he puts it: “Expect to hear about: – The effect of second language learners on morphological complexity – Degeneracy and variation – Why the only other Evolutionary theory [...]
Our next LEC talk, on Tuesday 12th April in 1.17 DSB from 11:00-12:30, will be from Jim Hurford. He will be talking about: Reconciling linguistic jerks and biological creeps. We will be going to Nile Valley for lunch afterwards (their proper lunch menu is great, varied and cheap!). Hope to see you all there, Simon
This coming Tuesday 5th at 11-12.30, David White will give us a talk on the ideas that have developed during the first months of his PhD. The title is: Do language evolution and language change produce waste? Now teaching is over, we can move back into our usual room: 1.17, Dugald Stewart Building. See you [...]
We’re back on schedule for our LEC talks next week, with a guest lecture from Dorit Bar-On, visiting Edinburgh very briefly. This is a great opportunity to hear about Dorit’s work, which is extremely relevant to many of us in the LEC! We’ll be going out to lunch afterwards, so please do join us. NOTE [...]
Hi Everyone, Tomorrow’s LEC meeting will be a dry run of Thom’s plenary lecture for this year’s EHBEA conference. The title is: ‘Communication, Cognition and the Origins of Language‘. 11-12.30, G.16, Teviot quad, doorway 4. See you there! Si
For my public Inaugural Lecture, I will be trying to give a broad accessible summary of the importance of some of the recent research in the LEC. There will be a reception with drinks and canapes afterwards to celebrate – all welcome! 22nd March 5.15pm, Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 5 The Language Organism: evolution, culture, [...]