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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Conference
announcement: 'Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change'<br>
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Place: University of Texas at Austin<br>
All are welcome to attend the talks listed below. There is no
registration fee.<br>
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Program: For updates, locations, etc. please see
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/linguistics/events/dhglc/</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Thurs March
26</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">9:30-10:15 Jane Hill
(University of Arizona): Becoming Hunter-Gatherers? Uto-Aztecans in
California and the Great Basin<br>
10:30-11:15 John Ives (University of Alberta): Archaeological,
Linguistic and Genetic Evidence for Apachean Migration from the
Canadian Subarctic</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">11:15-12:00 Patience
Epps and Cynthia Hansen (U</font><font color="#000000">niversity
of<font face="Times New Roman"> T</font>exas at<font
face="Times New Roman"> Austin): Amazonian numeral systems: language
contact and socio-economic parameters</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">3-3:45 Claire Bowern
(Yale University) Flora and fauna reconstruction from Dampier land
languages</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Fri March
27</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">9:45</font><font
color="#000000">-10:45<font face="Times New Roman"> Keith Hunley
(University of New Mexico): Genetic and linguistic coevolution in
Native America and Island Melanesia and implications for prehistoric
reconstruction</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2-2:45 Russell Gray
(University of Auckland): What does evolutionary biology have to offer
historical linguistics?</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Sat March
28</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">9:</font><font
color="#000000">0<font face="Times New Roman">0-</font>9:45<font
face="Times New Roman"> Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS/Australian National
University): Marriage patterns, kinship systems and language
maintenance and shift: western Pama-Nyungan, Athapaskan and northern
Uto-Aztecan</font></font></div>
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