{"id":3943,"date":"2024-09-09T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=3943"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:27:56","slug":"elle-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/elle\/elle-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLE 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

20th February 2017, 10am – 5pm, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh
<\/strong>FULLY BOOKED (but free space may be available on the day).<\/p>\n\n\n

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In addition to two lectures from our guest lecturer as part of this day-long event, there will also be presentations showcasing work from the world-leading Centre for Language Evolution, as well as plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our guest lecturer for 2017 is Professor Morten Christiansen<\/a>. Morten is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University, as well as Senior Scientist at the Haskins Labs, Professor of Child Language at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, and Professor in the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on the interaction of biological and environmental constraints in the evolution, acquisition and processing of language. He employs a variety of methodologies, including computational modeling, corpus analyses, statistical learning, psycholinguistic experiments, and neuroimaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Programme of Events<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10:00<\/strong>  Coffee (provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15<\/strong>  Morten Christiansen,<\/em> Creating Language: From Milliseconds to Millennia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15<\/strong>  Coffee (provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30<\/strong>  Olga Feh\u00e9r, <\/em>Communication systems are shaped by interaction and transmission: insights from atypical birdsong and artificial languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:15<\/strong>  Marieke Schouwstra, <\/em>The emergence of word order conventions in natural and artificial sign languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00<\/strong>  Lunch (provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:00<\/strong>  Richard Blythe, <\/em>The curious parallels of biological and language evolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45<\/strong>  Isabelle Dautriche, <\/em>Learning homophones in context: the easy cases are favored in the lexicon of natural languages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30<\/strong>  Coffee (provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:45<\/strong>  Morten Christiansen,<\/em> Creating Language: Balancing Arbitrariness and Systematicity in Vocabulary Structure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00<\/strong>  Finish<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone is encouraged to attend for the full day if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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