29.4281, Calls: Linguistic Theories/Portugal

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Subject: 29.4281, Calls: Linguistic Theories/Portugal

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 02:05:37
From: Nathalie Gontier [Protolang6 at gmail.com]
Subject: Protolang 6

 
Full Title: Protolang 6 
Short Title: Protolang 6 

Date: 09-Sep-2019 - 12-Sep-2019
Location: Lisbon, Portugal 
Contact Person: Nathalie Gontier
Meeting Email: Protolang6 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for
scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of
human beings.

The 2019 edition will have plenary talks given by, amongst others, Roslyn
Frank, Tania Kouteva, Rafael Núñez, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Catherine
Hobaiter, and Klaus Zuberbühler as well as several invited symposia organized
by scholars from around the world.


Call for Papers:

We call for satellite events, 2-hour long symposia, individual talks and
posters. 

We invite scholars from A(rcheology) to Z(oology) to contribute data,
experimental and theoretical research.

The 2019 conference additionally calls out for contributions on the following
5 themes:

1. Paleolithic Cosmologies: How Early Hominins conceptualized Matter,
Space/Ecology, Time, Words & Number
2. Defining Protolanguage and the Biological, Cognitive, and Cultural
Mechanisms and Processes whereby it evolves
3. History, Philosophy and Methodologies to Study Primate and Human Cognition,
Communication & Culture
4. Multimodal Theories in Primate Communication and (Proto)Language
5. Modelling of Language Evolution (trees, networks, agent and population
dynamics)

Timelines to submit:

Satellite events & symposia by January 15, 2019;
Individual talks & posters by February 1, 2019

Abstract Submission:

https://sites.google.com/view/protolang-6/calls-submission?authuser=0

About Protolang:

The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical,
neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological
requirements for evolving (proto)language. Sign use, tools, cooperative
breeding, pointing, vocalisation, intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis, planning
and navigation are among many examples of such possible factors through which
hominins have gained a degree of specificity that is not found in other forms
of animal communication and cognition. We aim at identifying the proximate and
ultimate causes as well as the mechanisms by which these requirements evolved;
evaluating the methodologies, research tools and simulation techniques; and
enabling extended and vigorous exchange of ideas across disciplinary borders.

Organizers & Sponsors:

Protolang 6 is organized by the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab and the
Primate Cognition Research Group of the Center for Philosophy of Science of
the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon; the William James Center
for Research of the University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life
Sciences; the Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social
Well-Being of the Catholic University of Lisbon; and the Portuguese
Association for Archaeological Investigation.

Protolang 6 is additionally sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation;
SEAC - the European Society for Astronomy; the Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology; FCiências.ID, the Association for the Investigation
and Development of the Sciences of the Faculty of Science of the University of
Lisbon; and the Philosophy of Formal Sciences, Epistemology and Methodology
division of the Center for Philosophy of Science.

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