第 八 届 演 化 语 言 学 国 际 研 讨 会

8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Schedule for Tuesday, August 9

Location:
Woodburn Hall Room 100
  Morning session chair: Shen Zhongwei
Time Event Speaker Talk Title
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote 4 Kong Jiangping A preliminary study on the evolution of vocal tract
10:00-10:20 AM Tea/coffee break
10:20-10:50 AM Invited talk Rob Shumaker Vocal fold control beyond the species-specific repertoire in an orang-utan
10:50-11:20 AM Invited talk Peng Gang The influence of speech variation on L2 tone learning
11:20-11:50 AM Invited talk Tyler Marghetis Where is tomorrow? How high is a year? Space-time metaphors emerge from individual biases, social interaction, and cultural transmission
11:50 AM-12:20 PM Open discussion Conference participants  
12:20-2:00 PM Lunch Break (conference attendees have lunch on their own)
Location:
Woodburn Hall Room 100
Woodburn Hall Room 101
  Afternoon session chair: Colin Allen Afternoon session chair: Yang Ruoxiao
2:00-3:00 PM Keynote 5 Jared Taglialatela What can the socio-communicative behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos tell us about the origins of human spoken language?  
3:00-3:15 PM Talk Lana Ruck The value of praxis-based studies for understanding language evolution Li Zhen [no show] 最佳关联交际理论的神经认知学理据剖析
3:15-3:30 PM Talk Guo Chunjie A cognitive account for co-evolution of the stone tools making and word classes Chu Hangjun [no show] 语言的进化与自然选择——语言进化适应论的发展历程及相关争议
3:30-4:00 PM Tea/coffee break
4:00-4:15 PM Talk Dong Hongyuan Historical sources of alveolar-velar correspondences in Chinese Dialects Wang Hao 西南官话仁富小片方言来源与形成研究
4:15-4:30 PM Talk [Cancellation] [Cancellation] Lu Xiaoyu 通过临海方言“以=”看tɕ-类近指词在吴语区的分布与演变
4:30-4:45 PM Talk Valentyna Skybina What it takes to become a pluricentric language Xu Xin [no show] 基于语料库的“在N 的V 下”历时研究
4:45-5:00 PM Talk Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon & August Fenk Language evolution and systemic typology Lin Zhu 中国英语学习者的语音数据分析：基于语音语料库的建设
5:00-5:15 PM Talk Nicholas Toth & Kathy Schick Stone tools and cognition He Ren 先秦汉语“V+N”式定中结构研究
5:15-5:30 PM Talk P. Thomas Schoenemann The evolution of Broca's area Li Guilan 汉语东南方言和壮侗语状语后置构式的比较研究
5:30-5:45 PM Talk Colin Allen, Hongliang Luo, Jaimie Murdock, Jianghuai Pu, Xiaohong Wang, Xiaoliang Wang, Wenjing Yuan, Kun Zhao & Yanjie Zhai Topic modeling the Hàn diăn (汉典)
 
5:45-8:25 PM Free time (conference attendees have dinner on their own)
8:25-9:30 PM Art Museum tour (everyone wishing to attend must be at the Art Museum no later than 8:25)