Last update: 05/09/2021
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Day 1: Monday, 06.09.
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Theme session: Electronic book launch of the Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, edited by Nathalie Gontier, Andy Lock & Chris Sinha | ||
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| 9.00 – 9.10 | Opening | |||
| 9.10 – 10.25 | Plenary: Asifa Majid Does language reflect an evolutionary trade-off between olfaction and vision? | |||
| 10.25 – 11.00 | Break | |||
| Chair: Stefan Hartmann | Chair: Karim Baraghith | |||
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Antonio Benítez-Burraco and Ljiljana Progovac Self-domestication might have tied together (taming of) aggression with cross-modality, facilitating the evolution of languages | Aleksandra Poniewierska, Aleksandra Szczepańska, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Michael Pleyer The Representation of Language Evolution Research in Introductory Linguistics Textbooks | Nathalie Gontier, Chris Sinha & Andy Lock Introduction | |
| 11.35 – 12.05 | Antonio Benítez-Burraco, David Gil, Ljiljana Progovac, Candy Cahuana and Tatiana Tatarinova Correlating declarative/procedural memory with language variation | Marco Gamba, Chiara De Gregorio, Daria Valente, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Teresa Raimondi, Olivier Friard, Valeria Torti and Cristina Giacoma Rhythm and combinations of vocal signals: insights from the ‘singing primates’ | Nick J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell Intersubjectivity is activity plus accountability | |
| 12.10 – 12.40 | Yannick Becker, Olivier Coulon and Adrien Meguerditchian The Arcuate Fasciculus disentangled: Different conceptions are depicting different evolutionary trajectories | Rie Asano Evolution of cognitive control underlying language syntax and musical rhythm | Camilla Power, Ian Watts, and Chris Knight The symbolic revolution: A sexual conflict model | |
| 12.45 – 13.15 | Claudio Brozzoli, Simon Thibault, Veronique Boulenger and Alice Roy Tool use and syntactic skills improve each other via shared neural patterns in the basal ganglia neurolinguistics | David Gil Simple and Relational Compositionality | Antonis Iliopoulos and Lambros Malafouris Symbols and material signs in the debate on human origins | |
| 13.15 – 14.30 | Break | |||
| Chair: Monika Pleyer | Chair: Marcel Ruland | |||
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Cristina Barés Gómez and Matthieu Fontaine Mirativity and the lack of evidence | Tatiana Bortolato, Roman Wittig, Cédric Girard-Buttoz and Catherine Crockford Vocal sequences emerge slowly in chimpanzee development | Luís Tirapicos, Fabio Silva, Fernando Pimenta Symbolism and archaeoastronomy in prehistory | |
| 15.05 – 15.35 | Alejandro M. Andirkó, Juan Moriano and Cedric Boeckx Building a timeline for the evolution of language subcomponents | Catherine Crockford, Cedric Girard-Buttoz, Emiliano Zaccarella, Tatiana Bortolato, Cornelius Eichner, Alfred Anwander, Carsten Jaeger, Tobias Graessle, Pawel Fedurek, Liran Samuni, Kamilla Pleh, Roman Wittig, Nik Weiskopf, Angela Friederici The patterning and ontogeny of chimpanzee vocal sequences and brain pathways | Lana M. Ruck & Natalie T. Uomini Artifact, praxis, tool, and symbol | |
| 15.40 – 16.10 | Rayn Epremian, Jonas Nölle, Christine Cuskley and Matthew Spike True story: Narrative as an adaptation for the communication of social survival information | Lola Rivoal, Leonard Samain-Aupic, Konstantina Margiotoudi, Maud Champagne-Lavau and Adrien Meguerditchian Are Baboons Able to Consider the Other’s Knowledge State When Pointing? Theory of Mind & Neuroanatomical Correlates within the Superior Temporal Sulcus | April Nowell and Amanda Cooke Culturing the Paleolithic body: Archaeological signatures of adornment and body modification | |
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Sverker Johansson How many protolanguages were there? | Natalie Uomini, Larry Barham, Michal Paradysz and Georg Meyer Lateralised and bilateral brain networks for speech and stone tool-use: a neuroarchaeology study | Elisabeth V. Culley and Iain Davidson Art, sign, and representation | |
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Break | |||
| Chair: Stefan Hartmann | Chair: Marcel Ruland | |||
| 17.15 – 17.45 | Elsa Addessi, Claire Farrow, Charlotte Webber, Francesca Bellagamba, Flavia Chiarotti, Jacqueline Blissett, Amy T. Galloway, Laura Shapiro, Valentina Focaroli, Melania Paoletti, Giulia Pecora, Barbara Caravale, Corinna Gasparini and Serena Gastaldi Is a baby-led weaning style related to motor and language development? Preliminary evidence from two cultures | Tim Sainburg, Anna Mai and Timothy Gentner Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition | ||
| 18.00 – 19.15 | Plenary: Michel DeGraff Does Creole formation recapitulate the emergence of human language? Notes on the origins and evolution of linguists’ most dangerous myth | |||
| 19.15 – | (Gathertown room will be open for anyone who wants to join) | |||
Day 2: Tuesday, 07.09. ↑
| Session 1 | Session 2 | Theme session in memory of Bernard Bichakjian (Natalie Uomoni & Henny Hettema) | |
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| 9.00 – 10.15 | Plenary: Asli Özyurek Not only the past but also the future of language is likely to be multimodal | ||
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Break | ||
| Chair: Michael Pleyer | Chair: Karim Baraghith | ||
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Austin Howard Sound Symbolism in the Turkish Tongue: Ideophone Identification or the Iconicity of a Myth? | David Leavens Proto-declaratives in the Lab and in Nature | Ad Foolen Bernard Bichakjian’s evolutionary view on language change |
| 11.05 – 11.35 | Shiri Lev-Ari, Ivet Kancheva, Louise Marston, Hannah Morris, Teah Swingler and Madina Zaynudinova ‘Big’ sounds bigger in more widely-spoken languages | Bart Geurts Normative evolutionary pragmatics | Tatiana Chernigovskaya Biology, Environment, and Culture: From Animal Communication to Human Language and Cognition |
| 11.40 – 12.10 | Konstantina Margiotoudi and Friedemann Pulvermüller Grounding sound symbolism in hand actions | Fredrik Stjernberg The use of questions in the evolution of language | Gábor Győri The evolution of language as a categorizing device |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Greg Woodin and Marcus Perlman The iconic impetus of language: From sensorimotor simulation to the lexicon | Marek Placiński Structural alignment and cooperation | Christer Johansson Is the loss of superior visual processing linked to the emergence of language? |
| 12.45 – 14.00 | Break | ||
| Chair: Sverker Johansson | Chair: Marcel Ruland | ||
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Michael Pleyer, Sławomir Wacewicz and Przemysław Żywiczyński Shared Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Pretence and Pantomime | Theresa Matzinger, Eva Specker, Nikolaus Ritt and W Tecumseh Fitch Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a potential factor in the cultural evolution of language | |
| 14.35 – 15.05 | Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marta Sibierska, Sławomir Wacewicz, Joost van de Weijer, Francesco Ferretti, Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera and Valentina Deriu Between universality and conventionality: a cross-cultural study of pantomimic enactments of transitive events | Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Nikolaus Ritt Linguistic markers of group affiliation increase trust as much as other biological and cultural tags | |
| 15.10 – 15.40 | Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Sławomir Wacewicz Predictors of communicative success in pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events | Madeleine McGrath, Gregory Mills and Gareth Roberts Turn-taking and the identification of humanness in a highly restricted interactive task | |
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Monika Pleyer, Michael Pleyer and Sławomir Wacewicz Towards an Evolutionary and Naturalistic Approach to the Pragmatic Concept of Face | Andrew Feeney Can pragmatics account for unleashed expression? | |
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Break | ||
| Chair: Nathalie Gontier | Chair: Michael Pleyer | ||
| 16.45 – 17.15 | Filipe Martone How philosophy of language can contribute to understanding protolanguage | Jonas Nölle, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Chaona Chen, Meng Liu, Robin A. A. Ince, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack Understanding the semiotic affordances of human facial expressions using data-driven methods | |
| 17.20 – 17.50 | Corina Strößner Natural concepts in conceptual spaces | Viktor Martinovic Loanpy – A Framework for Computer-aided Borrowing Detection | |
| 18.00 – 19.15 | Plenary: Cailin O’Connor Evolution and Vagueness | ||
| 19.15 – | Social gathering (Gathertown) |
Day 3: Wednesday, 08.09. ↑
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
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| 9.00 – 10.15 | Plenary: Albert Newen Central roots of concepts in situated social interaction and their informational organization | |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Break | |
| Chair: Stefan Hartmann | Chair: Marcel Ruland | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Gregory Mills The emergence of conventions in a turn-taking task | Rabia Ergin, Limor Raviv and Simon Kirby How word order conventions emerge in the manual modality |
| 11.05 – 11.35 | Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Danielle Naegeli, Marieke Schouwstra and Simon Kirby Regularisation, harmony and naturalness in a silent gesture learning task | Wim Pouw & Susanne Fuchs Biomechanics as the primordial basis for the emergence of co-speech gesture |
| 11.40 – 12.10 | Julia Trzeciakowska and Elizabeth Qing Zhang The emergence of words from iterated sound imitations | Olga Vasileva, Senay Cebioglu and Tanya Broesch Co-evolution of handedness and gesture: Evidence from a non-industrial society |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Giorgio Papitto, Angela D. Friederici and Emiliano Zaccarella A behavioral pilot study on the retrieval of hierarchical information in mental representations of action and its segregation from language | Michael Pleyer Processes of Entrenchment and Conventionalisation in the Evolution of Language |
| 12.45 – 14.00 | Break | |
| Chair: Corina Strößner | Chair: Jonas Nölle | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Andres Karjus, Richard Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang and Kenny Smith Colexification and communicative need in lexical evolution | J. Benjamin Falandays and Paul Smaldino The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Informational Bottlenecks at Multiple Scales Support Collective Cognitive Alignment |
| 14.35 – 15.05 | Roland Mühlenbernd, Slawomir Wacewicz and Przemyslaw Zywiczynski The Evolution of Ambiguity in Communication Systems | Kristian Tylén, Riccardo Fusaroli, Sergio Rojo, Katrin Heimann, Nicolas Fay, Niels N. Johannsen, Feix Riede and Marlize Lombard Investigating the cultural evolution of the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings |
| 15.10 – 15.40 | Rachael Bailes, Christine Cuskley, Anton Ingason and Joel Wallenberg Linguistic planning for information uniformity is an adaptation for noise resistance | Kristian Tylén, Zahra Alinam and Cordula Vesper The cultural route to conceptualization of space |
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Aliki Papa, Mioara Cristea, Nicola McGuigan and Monica Tamariz The effect of verbal instruction vs modelling on transmission fidelity of causally (ir)relevant actions | Limor Raviv and Cedric Boeckx Complexity and Simplicity in the evolution of languages across species |
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Break | |
| 16.45 – 18.00 | Plenary: Katja Liebal What primate gestures can (and cannot) tell us about language evolution | |
| 18.00 | Closing of the conference, announcement of Protolang 8 |