The Evolution of Language : Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6) Rome, Italy 12-15 April 2006.
This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6). The biennial EVOLANG conference focuses on the origins and evolution of human language, and brings together researchers from many disciplines including anthropology, arc...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Papers -- The Mirror System Hypothesis: From a Macaque-like Mirror System to Imitation -- Bootstrapping Communication in Language Games. Strategy Topology and All That -- Language Learning Power Laws and Sexual Selection -- The Baldwin Effect Works for Functional but not Arbitrary Features of Language -- On the Emergence of Compositionality -- Towards a Fixed Word Order in a Society of Agents: A Data-driven Baseline Perspective -- Simulation Model for the Evolution of Language with Spatial Topology -- Mostly Out of Africa but What Did the Others Have to Say? -- A Comparison of the Articulatory Parameters Involved in the Production of Sound of Bonobos and Modern Humans -- Generalised Signalling: A Possible Solution to the Paradox of Language -- Innateness and Culture in the Evolution of Language -- Early Human Language was Isolating-Monocategorial-Associational -- Computational Simulation on the Coevolution of Compositionality and Regularity -- An Epistemological Inquiry into the "What is Language" Question and the "What Did Language Evolve For" Question -- Minimalist Foundations of Language Evolution: On the Question of Why Language Is the Way It Is -- Why Has Ambiguous Syntax Emerged? -- Proto-propositions -- Convex Meanings and Evolutionary Stability -- Natural-language "Cheap Talk" Enables Coordination on A Social-dilemma Game in a Culturally Homogeneous Population -- Constraining the Time When Language Evolved -- Working Backwards from Modern Language to Proto-grammar -- Language Co-evolved with the Rule of Law -- A Saltationist Approach for the Evolution of Human Cognition and Language -- Interaction of Developmental and Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence of Spoken Language -- Labels Facilitate Learning of Novel Categories -- Emergence of Communication in Teams of Embodied and Situated Agents. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A Language Emergence Model Predicts Word Order Bias -- Talking to Oneself as a Selective Pressure for the Emergence of Language -- Learning Models for Language Acquisition -- Simulating the Evolutionary Emergence of Language: A Research Agenda -- Evolving the Narrow Language Faculty: Was Recursion the Pivotal Step? -- From Mouth to Hand -- Diffusion of Genes and Languages in Human Evolution -- Differences and Similarities between the Natural Gestural Communication of the Great Apes and Human Children -- The Evolution of Language as a Precursor to the Evolution of Morality -- Modelling the Transition to Learned Communication: An Initial Investigation into the Ecological Conditions Favouring Cultural Transmission -- Towards A Spatial Language for Mobile Robots -- Why Talk? Speaking as Selfish Behaviour -- Semantic Reconstructibility and the Complexification of Language -- The Protolanguage Debate: Bridging the Gap? -- How to do Experiments in Artificial Language Evolution and Why -- The Implications of Bilingualism and Multilingualism for Potential Evolved Language Mechanisms -- Selection Dynamics in Language Form and Language Meaning -- A Statistical Analysis of Language Evolution -- Evolutionary Games and Semantic Universals -- Overextensions and the Emergence of Compositionality -- Grammaticalisation and Evolution -- Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU) -- 2 Abstracts -- Alarm Calls and Organised Imperatives in Male Putty-nosed Monkeys -- Perception Acquisition as the Causes for Transition Patterns in Phonological Evolution -- The Evolution of Syntactic Capacity from Navigational Ability -- The Subtle Interplay between Language and Category Acquisition and How it Explains the Universality of Colour Categories -- The Evolution of Meaningful Combinatoriality -- The Adaptive Advantages of Knowledge Transmission. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Determining Signaler Intentions -- Use of Multiple Gestures in Captive Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) -- Nuclear Schizophrenic Symptoms as the Key to the Origins of Language -- Articulator Constraints and the Descended Larynx -- Evolutionary Support for a Procedural Semantics for Generalised Quantifiers -- The Evolution of Spoken Language: A Comparative Approach -- Allee Effect on Language Evolution -- Rapidity of Fading and the Emergence of Duality of Patterning -- Reconsidering Kirby's Compositionality Model Towards Modelling Grammaticalisation -- The Interrelated Evolutions of Colour Vision Colour and Colour Terms -- A Little Bit More A Lot Better: Language Emergence from Quantitative to Qualitative Change -- Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language -- Modelling Unidirectionality in Semantic Change -- The Origin of Music and Its Linguistic Significance for Modern Humans -- Co-evolution of Language and Behaviour in Autonomous Robots -- Iconic versus Arbitrary Mappings and the Cultural Transmission of Language -- Mother Tongue: Concominant Replacement of Language and MtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran -- What can Grammaticalization Tell Us about the Origins of Language? -- Bootstrapping Shared Combinatorial Speech Codes from Basic Imitation: The Role of Self-organization -- How Language Can Guide Intelligence -- The Roles of Segmentation Ability in Language Evolution -- Primate Social Cognition and the Cognitive Precursors of Language -- Agonistic Screams in Wild Chimpanzees: Candidates for Functionally Referential Signals -- An Individual-based Mechanism for Adaptive Semantic Change -- A Holistic Protolanguage Cannot Be Stored Cannot Be Retrieved -- Recombinance in the Evolution of Language -- Ape Gestures and Human Language -- Prehistoric Handedness: Some Hard Evidence. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Lateralization of Intentional Gestures in Non Human Primates: Baboons Communicate with Their Right Hand -- Emergence of Grammar as Revealed by Visual Imprinting in Newly-hatched Chicks -- Beyond the Argument from Design -- Author Index. | |
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