29.4418, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Switzerland

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Subject: 29.4418, Calls: Anthro Ling, Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Socioling/Switzerland

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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:12:02
From: Fabienne Leuenberger [fabienne.leuenberger at uzh.ch]
Subject: The Evolution of Language: Bridging the Natural and Cognitive Sciences

 
Full Title: The Evolution of Language: Bridging the Natural and Cognitive Sciences 

Date: 04-Mar-2019 - 05-Mar-2019
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Fabienne Leuenberger
Meeting Email: fabienne.leuenberger at uzh.ch
Web Site: https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/ISLE-inaugural-workshop.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

Inaugural workshop of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language
Evolution (ISLE)

The evolution of language:  Bridging the natural and cognitive sciences

The newly established Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language
Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, invites submissions
for presentations at its inaugural workshop. The workshop will take place
March 4-5, 2019.

The aim of the workshop, and the mission of ISLE, is to bridge between
different approaches working on language evolution, specifically between the
natural and cognitive sciences. Although much progress has been made in the
past two decades, comparative research on animal communication and work on
human language have traditionally been undertaken in isolation, a division
often reinforced by how departments and faculties are typically organized. We
aim at breaking this tradition and bring the full force of each discipline,
its theories and methods, to bear on all questions relating to the phylogeny,
ontogeny, and dynamics (cultural evolution and variability) of language and
animal communication.

Confirmed keynote speakers (alphabetical order):

Morten Christiansen, Cornell University
Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh

Organizers:

Marta Manser
Sabine Stoll

Organizing Committee:

Balthasar Bickel
Martin Meyer
Carel van Schaik
Simon Townsend
Klaus Zuberbühler


Call for Papers:

We invite contributions that shed light on the evolution of language, speech
and communication via empirical or modeling research in animal and human
communication including:

- communication and cognition in individual species
- cross-species comparison
- biological and genetic foundations
- social and ecological conditions
- vocal learning and language acquisition
- cultural evolution and language change
- language/communication and population diversity
- phylogenetic brain plasticity

Please send your 300-word abstract for presentations (20 minutes) by December
3, 2018.

Please submit your abstract by email as a pdf (anonymized) to:
fabienne.leuenberger at uzh.ch

For the full Call for Papers, please visit us here:
https://www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/ISLE-inaugural-workshop.ht
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