第 八 届 演 化 语 言 学 国 际 研 讨 会

8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Schedule for Monday, August 8

Location:
Woodburn Hall Room 100
  Morning session chair: P. Thomas Schoenemann
Time Event Speaker Talk Title
9:00-9:10 AM Welcome P. Thomas Schoenemann Welcome
9:10-10:10 AM Keynote 1 William S.-Y. Wang Exaptation
10:10-10:30 AM Tea/coffee break
10:30-11:30 AM Keynote 2 Daniel Everett Homo erectus and the semiotic progression
11:30 AM:12:00 PM Invited talk Robert Port How confusing spoken and written language undermines linguistic thought
12:00-12:30 PM Invited talk David Pisoni Cochlear implants and hearing loss: A new look at the "Forbidden Experiment" in language development and the evolution of spoken language
12:30-1:00 Conference group photo
1:00-2:30 PM Lunch Break (conference attendees have lunch on their own)
  Afternoon session chair: Robert Port
2:30-3:30 PM Keynote 3 Salikoko Mufwene The co-evolution of speech and pragmatics
3:30-4:00 PM Tea/coffee break
4:00-4:15 PM Talk Fenk-Oczlon Gertraud Commonalities between vowel systems and musical scales from an evolutionary perspective
4:15-4:30 PM Talk Ivan Yifan Zou, Steve Ka Hong Wong & William Shi-Yuan Wang The role of language and music in dementia among the Chinese population
4:30-4:45 PM Talk Yang Ruoxiao Learning to read in traditional and simplified Chinese scripts shape adult readers’ perception of Chinese characters and visual attention
4:45-5:00 PM Talk Xia Quansheng, Gong Wenxiao & Ly Yong Syntactic category of constituent components in the processing of compounds: evidence from noun compounds in Mandarin
5:00-5:15 PM Talk Manson Cheuk-Man Fong, Ivan Yifan Zou, Patrick Chunkau Chu & William S.-Y. Wang Do FN400 potentials index conceptual priming during old/new judgment?
5:15-5:30 PM Talk Ahmet Naim Çiçekler Genitive case licensing in the subject of compound clauses in Old Anatolian Turkish
5:30-6:30 PM Free time
6:30-9:30 PM Reception at Stone Age Institute (bus leaves from circle at IMU Hotel entrance at 6:30 sharp)