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<div align="center"><h1><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Evolution of
Language: <br>
Fifth International Conference, 2004.<br><br>
</b></font></h1><h2><b>Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.<br><br>
Wednesday March 31st --- Saturday April 3rd, 2004.<br><br>
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<h3><b>Call for abstracts</b></h3>One-page abstracts are now solicited.
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<b>CONTENT:</b> The conference welcomes substantive contributions
relating to the evolution of human language from any relevant discipline,
including Anthropology, Genetics, Population Biology, Linguistics,
Psychology, Primatology, Ethology, Paleontology, Archeology, Artificial
Life, Mathematical Modelling. Normal standards of academic quality apply.
Thus, submitted abstracts should aim to make clear their own substantive
claim, relating this to relevant scientific literature, and briefly
setting out the method by which the claim is substantiated, the nature of
the relevant data, and/or the core of the theoretical argument concerned.
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<b>DEADLINE:</b> Abstracts should be submitted by October 31st, 2003.
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<b>FORMAT:</b> Each abstract should conform to the following
specifications:
<ul>
<li><b>Length:</b> a single page of A4, single-spaced, font size 12pt or
larger, with 2.5cm margins all round. Any diagrams must fit on this
single page.
<li><b>Head material:</b> Give:
<li>Title of paper,
<li>Author name(s),
<li>Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line),
<li>Email address of principal author.
<li>(This head material must be at the top of the single A4 page.)
</ul><br>
<b>METHOD:</b> Email your abstract to evolang5@ling.ed.ac.uk, as an
ATTACHMENT (i.e.not included in the message) in PLAIN TEXT (i.e. NOT as a
MSword document or similar). <br><br>
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<h3><font size=4><b>Further information</b></font></h3>Further
information, about plenary speakers, accommodation, conference fees, etc.
will be forthcoming from time to time by email, and by updating of the
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<h3><font size=4><b>Extra attraction</b></font></h3>As an "extra
treat" for participants, Mike Tomasello has promised a guided tour
of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center (aka
"Pongoland"), a joint facility of the Max Planck Institute and
Leipzig Zoo investigating the behavior and cognition of the great apes.
(See <a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/files/apes.html">here</a> for
further information.)<br><br>
<font size=2>Conference Organizing Committee:<br>
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)<br>
Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications,
Paris)<br>
Tecumseh Fitch (Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; University of St
Andrews)<br>
James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)<br>
Chris Knight (University of East London)<br>
Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories)<br>
Maggie Tallerman (University of Durham)<br>
Alison Wray (Cardiff University) </font>
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