第 八 届 演 化 语 言 学 国 际 研 讨 会

8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Schedule for Wednesday, August 10

Location:
Woodburn Hall Room 100
Woodburn Hall Room 101
  Morning session chair: Robert Port Morning session chair: Xia Quansheng
Time Event Speaker Talk Title Speaker Talk Title
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote 6 Wu Yicheng Constructionality and hidden complexity - The diachronic evolution of non-canonical [V+NP] expressions  
10:00-10:20 AM Tea/coffee break
10:20-10:50 AM Invited talk Shen Zhongwei Language transmission, language acquisition, and dialect formation Shi Feng 关于汉语普通话语音的调查和实验的分析和思考
10:50-11:20 AM Invited talk Charles Lin Typological and processing origins of aesthetic prescriptivism in language Hu He 阿尔泰语系语言元音声学空间分布特征比较研究
11:20-11:50 AM Invited talk Rachel Edwards The evolution of language, creativity and narrative Li Dandan 北方官话“自个儿”等“A个儿”代词的来源
11:50 AM-12:20 PM Invited talk Ljiljana Progovac A reconstruction of early human (and Neanderthal) grammars Liu Juan & Lin Jiayi 子尾词在山东淄博方言中的内部变化试析
12:20-2:00 PM Lunch Break (conference attendees have lunch on their own)
  Afternoon session chair: Charles Lin Afternoon session chair: Shi Feng
2:00-3:00 PM Keynote 7 Jackson Gandour Lexical tone, neuroplasticity and language evolution  
3:00-3:15 PM Talk Andrew Feeney Language evolution, dual processing and the Representational Hypothesis: a unified account of the emergence of language Peng Zeyun 词 中 的 语素义 类似 字 中 的 形旁——符号 理据 和 价值 的 区别
3:15-3:30 PM Talk Mohammad Salehi Ambiguity and garden path sentences    
3:30-4:00 PM Tea/coffee break
4:00-4:15 PM Talk Zhou Changyin Sustained anterior positivity related to the complexity of argument structure: An ERP experiment on the comprehension of Chinese applied-object structures  
4:15-4:30 PM Talk Weng Chuan-Hui Synchrony-diachrony interaction of the permissive, causative and passive Rang in Chinese Li Yanzhi On the constructionalization of [NP1+Vi+le (了)+NP2] in Mandarin Chinese
4:30-4:45 PM Talk Lin Chia-Hua How can the developments in linguistics benefit neurolinguistics? An Instrumentalist approach Hsu Yu-Yin & Charles Lin Lexical Effects on Quantifier Scope Processing in Chinese
4:45-5:00 PM Talk Khadeejah Alaslani A glottochronological Guess on Al-Fayfiyah’s position in Semitics    
5:00-6:00 PM Closing addresses Peng Gang, Shi Feng, Larry Singell, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Summary of CIEL8, preview of CIEL9 to be held at Yunnan Nationalities University in Kunming, China, Closing remarks  
6:00-7:00 PM Free time
7:00-9:30 PM Closing reception dinner (Georgian Room, Indiana Memorial Union)