The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006,9789812566560

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006

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ISBN13: 9789812566560
ISBN10: 9812566562
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Pub. Date: 2006-05-31
Publisher(s): World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Summary

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, archaeology, artificial life, biology, cognitive science, computer science, ethology, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology, and psychology. The collection presents the latest theoretical, experimental and modeling research on language evolution, and includes contributions from the leading scientists in the field, including T Fitch, V Gallese, S Mithen, D Parisi, A Piazza & L Cavali Sforza, R Seyfarth & D Cheney, L Steels, L Talmy and M Tomasello.

Table of Contents

Preface v
Part I: Papers
The Mirror System Hypothesis: From a Macaque-like Mirror System to Imitation
3(8)
Michael A. Arbib, James Bonaiuto & Edina Rosta
Bootstrapping Communication in Language Games: Strategy, Topology and All That
11(8)
Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Luca Dall'Asta & Alain Barrat
Language Learning, Power Laws, and Sexual Selection
19(8)
Ted Briscoe
The Baldwin Effect Works for Functional, but not Arbitrary, Features of Language
27(8)
Morten H. Christiansen, Florencia Reali & Nick Chater
On the Emergence of Compositionality
35(8)
Joachim de Beule & Benjamin K. Bergen
Towards a Fixed Word Order in a Society of Agents: A Data-driven Baseline Perspective
43(8)
Guy de Pauw
Simulation Model for the Evolution of Language with Spatial Topology
51(8)
Cecilia Di Chio & Paolo Di Chio
Mostly Out of Africa, but What Did the Others Have to Say?
59(8)
Dan Dediu
A Comparison of the Articulatory Parameters Involved in the Production of Sound of Bonobos and Modern Humans
67(8)
Didier Demolin & Véronique Delvaux
Generalised Signalling: A Possible Solution to the Paradox of Language
75(8)
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Innateness and Culture in the Evolution of Language
83(8)
Mike Dowman, Simon Kirby & Thomas L. Griffiths
Early Human Language was Isolating-Monocategorial-Associational
91(8)
David Gil
Computational Simulation on the Coevolution of Compositionality and Regularity
99(8)
Tao Gong, James W. Minett & William S.-Y. Wang
An Epistemological Inquiry into the "What is Language" Question and the "What Did Language Evolve For" Question
107(8)
Nathalie Gontier
Minimalist Foundations of Language Evolution: On the Question of Why Language Is the Way It Is
115(8)
Wolfram Hinzen
Why Has Ambiguous Syntax Emerged?
123(8)
Stefan Hoefler
Proto-propositions
131(8)
James R. Hurford
Convex Meanings and Evolutionary Stability
139(6)
Gerhard Jäger
Natural-language "Cheap Talk" Enables Coordination on A Social-dilemma Game in a Culturally Homogeneous Population
145(7)
Mark Jeffreys
Constraining the Time When Language Evolved
152(8)
Sverker Johansson
Working Backwards from Modern Language to Proto-grammar
160(8)
Sverker Johansson
Language Co-evolved with the Rule of Law
168(8)
Chris Knight
A Saltationist Approach for the Evolution of Human Cognition and Language
176(8)
Susan J Lanyon
Interaction of Developmental and Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence of Spoken Language
184(6)
John L. Locke
Labels Facilitate Learning of Novel Categories
190(8)
Gary Lupyan
Emergence of Communication in Teams of Embodied and Situated Agents
198(8)
Davide Marocco & Stefano Nolfi
A Language Emergence Model Predicts Word Order Bias
206(8)
James W. Minett, Tao Gong & William S-Y. Wang
Talking to Oneself as a Selective Pressure for the Emergence of Language
214(8)
Marco Mirolli & Domenico Parisi
Learning Models for Language Acquisition
222(8)
Shashi Mittal & Harish Karnick
Simulating the Evolutionary Emergence of Language: A Research Agenda
230(9)
Domenico Parisi
Evolving the Narrow Language Faculty: Was Recursion the Pivotal Step?
239(8)
Anna R. Parker
From Mouth to Hand
247(8)
Dennis Philps
Diffusion of Genes and Languages in Human Evolution
255(12)
Alberto Piazza & Luigi Cavalli Sforza
Differences and Similarities between the Natural Gestural Communication of the Great Apes and Human Children
267(8)
Simone Pika & Katja Liebal
The Evolution of Language as a Precursor to the Evolution of Morality
275(8)
Joseph Poulshock
Modelling the Transition to Learned Communication: An Initial Investigation into the Ecological Conditions Favouring Cultural Transmission
283(8)
Graham Ritchie & Simon Kirby
Towards A Spatial Language for Mobile Robots
291(8)
Ruth Schulz, Paul Stockwell, Mark Wakabayashi & Janet Wiles
Why Talk? Speaking as Selfish Behaviour
299(8)
Thom Scott-Phillips
Semantic Reconstructibility and the Complexification of Language
307(8)
Andrew D.M. Smith
The Protolanguage Debate: Bridging the Gap?
315(8)
Kenny Smith
How to do Experiments in Artificial Language Evolution and Why
323(10)
Luc Steels
The Implications of Bilingualism and Multilingualism for Potential Evolved Language Mechanisms
333(8)
Daniel A. Sternberg & Morten H. Christiansen
Selection Dynamics in Language Form and Language Meaning
341(7)
Monica Tamariz
A Statistical Analysis of Language Evolution
348(8)
Marco Turchi & Nello Cristianini
Evolutionary Games and Semantic Universals
356(8)
Robert van Rood
Overextensions and the Emergence of Compositionality
364(8)
Paul Vogt
Grammaticalisation and Evolution
372(7)
Henk Zeevat
Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU)
379(10)
Jordan Zlatev & The SEDSU Project
Part II: Abstracts
Alarm Calls and Organised Imperatives in Male Putty-nosed Monkeys
389(2)
Kate Arnold & Klaus Zuberbühler
Perception Acquisition as the Causes for Transition Patterns in Phonological Evolution
391(2)
Ching-Fong Au
The Evolution of Syntactic Capacity from Navigational Ability
393(2)
Mark Bartlett & Dimitar Kazakov
The Subtle Interplay between Language and Category Acquisition and How it Explains the Universality of Colour Categories
395(2)
Tony Belpaeme & Joris Bleys
The Evolution of Meaningful Combinatoriality
397(2)
Jill Bowie
The Adaptive Advantages of Knowledge Transmission
399(2)
Joanna J. Bryson
Determining Signaler Intentions; Use of Multiple Gestures in Captive Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)
401(2)
Erica Cartmill & Richard Byrne
Nuclear Schizophrenic Symptoms as the Key to the Origins of Language
403(2)
Timothy J. Crow
Articulator Constraints and the Descended Larynx
405(2)
Bart de Boer
Evolutionary Support for a Procedural Semantics for Generalised Quantifiers
407(2)
Samson Tikitu de Jager
The Evolution of Spoken Language: A Comparative Approach
409(2)
W. Tecumseh Fitch
Allee Effect on Language Evolution
411(2)
José F. Fontanari & Leonid I. Perlovksy
Rapidity of Fading and the Emergence of Duality of Patterning
413(2)
Bruno Galantucci, Theo Rhodes & Christian Kroos
Reconsidering Kirby's Compositionality Model Towards Modelling Grammaticalisation
415(2)
Takashi Hashimoto & Masaya Nakatsuka
The Interrelated Evolutions of Colour Vision, Colour and Colour Terms
417(2)
David J.C. Hawkey
A Little Bit More, A Lot Better: Language Emergence from Quantitative to Qualitative Change
419(2)
Jinyun Ke, Christophe Coupé & Tao Gong
Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language
421(2)
Simon Kirby
Modelling Unidirectionality in Semantic Change
423(2)
Frank Landsbergen
The Origin of Music and Its Linguistic Significance for Modern Humans
425(3)
Steven Mithen
Co-evolution of Language and Behaviour in Autonomous Robots
428(2)
Sara Mitri & Paul Vogt
Iconic versus Arbitrary Mappings and the Cultural Transmission of Language
430(2)
Padraic Monaghan & Morten H. Christiansen
Mother Tongue: Concominant Replacement of Language and MtDNA in South Caspian Populations of Iran
432(2)
Ivan Nasidze & Mark Stoneking
What can Grammaticalization Tell Us about the Origins of Language?
434(2)
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Bootstrapping Shared Combinatorial Speech Codes from Basic Imitation: The Role of Self-organization
436(2)
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
How Language Can Guide Intelligence
438(2)
Leonid I Perlovsky & José F. Fontanari
The Roles of Segmentation Ability in Language Evolution
440(2)
Kazutoshi Sasahara, Bjorn Merker & Kazuo Okanoya
Primate Social Cognition and the Cognitive Precursors of Language
442(1)
Robert Seyfarth & Dorothy Cheney
Agonistic Screams in Wild Chimpanzees: Candidates for Functionally Referential Signals
443(2)
Katie Slocombe & Klaus Zuberbühler
An Individual-based Mechanism for Adaptive Semantic Change
445(2)
Daniel W. Smith
A Holistic Protolanguage Cannot Be Stored, Cannot Be Retrieved
447(2)
Maggie Tallerman
Recombinance in the Evolution of Language
449(3)
Leonard Talmy
Ape Gestures and Human Language
452(1)
Michael Tomasello
Prehistoric Handedness: Some Hard Evidence
453(2)
Natalie Uomini
Lateralization of Intentional Gestures in Non Human Primates: Baboons Communicate with Their Right Hand
455(2)
Jacques Vauclair & Adrien Meguerditchian
Emergence of Grammar as Revealed by Visual Imprinting in Newly-hatched Chicks
457(2)
Elisabetta Versace, Lucia Regolin & Giorgio Vallortigara
Beyond the Argument from Design
459(2)
Willem Zuidema and Timothy O'Donnell
Author Index 461

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