Workshop: HUMAN DIALECTS AND ANIMAL COMMUNICATION, 4/5 March 2013, Grenoble, France

Wed Feb 20 20:54:48 UTC 2013

International Workshop

HUMAN DIALECTS AND ANIMAL COMMUNICATION: COMMON PRINCIPLES AND DIFFERENCES 

March 4/5, 2013, Grande salle des Colloques of Stendhal University, Grenoble, France

Website: http://dialectworkshop.u-grenoble3.fr/index.php?pg=1&lg=en

Gipsa-Lab and Lidilem (University of Grenoble) are organizing a joint international workshop on the topic Human Dialects and Animal Communication. 

Although comparisons of communication systems of different animal species and human languages show numerous similarities, this comparative approach has never been systematically applied to the concept of dialect. Within the vocalizations of certain species, as within the same human language, we find varieties to which the generic term of dialect can be applied. This comparative perspective compels us to investigate dimensions of individual variation and dialectal variation within a collectivity of individuals, as well as the evolution of communication systems and the biological and social functions of differentiation. 

These questions are of concern both to linguists studying variation in human language (dialectologists and sociolinguists) and to biologist specializing in varieties of animal communication (ethologists and zoologists). The answer to these questions requires that these two scientific communities meet. Apart from scattered individual contacts, to our knowledge, no scientific event has ever been devoted to organizing such a meeting. This is the goal of the two-day workshop that we are organizing in Grenoble on 4 and 5 March, 2013.

List of speakers and titles (to be completed)

- Thierry Aubin, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage, de la Mémoire et de la Communication : Microdialects and group signatures in the territorial songs of birds. 

- Elisabetta Carpitelli, Laboratoire Bases, Corpus, Langage : Microvariation dialectale et instabilité des systèmes sonores d'aires marginales.

- Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Lidilem et IUF et Didier Demolin, Gipsa-Lab: Human Dialect and Animal Communication: a preliminary note

- Michel Contini, Gipsa-Lab : Principes de dialectologie humaine.

- Dan Dediu, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Some quantitative approaches to analyzing language dialects.

- Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Université Libre de Bruxelles : Interindividual variability in group living organisms.

- Hervé Glottin, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes et IUF: De la mécanique à la phylogenèse bioacoustique de cétacés: biosonar multipulsé d'odontocètes et évolution de chants de mysticètes.

- Martine Hausberger & Laurence Henry, Laboratoire Ethologie Animale et Humaine: Human dialects and animal communication: more than a metaphor 

- Jean-Marie Hombert, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage : Dialectal comparison and linguistic classification in the languages of North West Bantu.

- Hans Van de Velde, Universiteit Utrecht: Regional variation in the dynamics of vowels

- Jeffrey Podos, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Production constraints and the evolution of bird vocalizations.

- Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow: Human communication - or not? Experiencing speech without the possibility for interaction.

- Cyril Trimaille, Lidilem : La sociolinguistique, décrire les variations, comprendre l'hétérogénéité 

Scientific contact

Jean-Pierre Chevrot, LIDILEM, Université Stendhal, BP 25, 38040 GRENOBLE cedex 9, France - Tél.: 33 (0)4 76 82 68 13 / 33(0)6 74 61 36 21 - Mail : jean-pierre.chevrot_at_u-grenoble3.fr

Didier Demolin, Gipsa-Lab, Université Stendhal, BP 25, 38040 GRENOBLE cedex 9, France
Tél.: 33 (0)4 76 82 41 27 - Mail : didier.demolin_at_gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr

Administrative Support

Jessica Réolon, Gipsa-Lab, Université Stendhal, BP 25, 38040 GRENOBLE cedex 9, France
Tél. : 33 (0)4 76 82 43 37 
Fax : 33 (0)4 76 82 43 35
Mail : jessica.reolon_at_gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr 

Registration

The registration includes conference program and papers summary, coffee-breaks. 

Registration fee: 50 euros 

Fee for students: 20 euros 

Access to the workshop is free of charges for the members and students of Stendhal University, Gipsa-Lab and Lidilem.

Organizing Committee

Laurence Buson, Université Stendhal, Lidilem 

Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Université Stendhal, Lidilem & Institut Universitaire de France 

Didier Demolin, Université Stendhal & CNRS, Gipsa-Lab 

Giovanni Depau, Université Stendhal & CNRS 

Isabelle Rousset, Université Stendhal, Lidilem 

Jessica Réolon, Université Stendhal & CNRS, Gipsa-Lab 

Scientific Committee

Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Université Stendhal, Lidilem & Institut Universitaire de France 

Didier Demolin, Université Stendhal & CNRS, Gipsa-Lab 

Paul Foulkes, University of York 

Martine Hausberger, Université de Rennes 1 & CNRS, Ethos 

Jérôme Mars, Grenoble-INP & CNRS, Gipsa-Lab 

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Grenoble-INP & CNRS, Gipsa-Lab 

Partners

Association Française de la Communication Parlée

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Gipsa-Lab

Institut Universitaire de France

Lidilem

Pôle Grenoble Cognition

Région Rhône-Alpes

Université Stendhal

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Jean-Pierre Chevrot 
Université Grenoble 3 - Institut Universitaire de France
Laboratoire Lidilem - BP 25, 38040, Grenoble cedex
France
http://w3.u-grenoble3.fr/lidilem/labo/membre/membre_plus.php?mem_login=chevrot
Tel (bureau) : 04 76 82 68 13
Tel (personnel) : 06 74 61 36 21  

Site de la revue Lidil
http://www.revues.org/index644.html
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