Dan Dediu<\/a> (MPI Nijmegen)<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday 11 October 2016, 11:00\u201312:30 Lately, there are several strands of evidence emerging that seems to suggest that language is also shaped by non-linguistic factors, and I will explore in this talk several such proposals, focusing on a particular subtype, namely biases with a biological component. I will give a glimpse of work-in-progress exploring the link between vocal tract anatomy and physiology and phonetic\/phonological diversity and discuss the relevance of such “biased cultural evolution” for understand language evolution, language change and the present-day linguistic diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vocal tract anatomy and language: Non-linguistic factors may influence language diversity and evolution Dan Dediu (MPI Nijmegen) Tuesday 11 October 2016, 11:00\u201312:30 1.17 Dugald Stewart Building Lately, there are several strands of evidence emerging that seems to suggest that language is also shaped by non-linguistic factors, and I will explore in this talk several such … Continue reading 11 October: Dan Dediu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.17 Dugald Stewart Building<\/p>\n