Programme
Inscriptions
(Lundi, 21 juin 2010)
Séance d’ouverture - Activité ouverte au public
(Lundi, 21 juin 2010)
- What is Language?
Ray Jackendoff
Tufts University
1. Introduction
(Mardi, 22 juin 2010)
- Historical debates and experiments
Henri Cohen
Université Paris Descartes, Paris
- The origin of language in eighteenth-century philosophy
Sylvain Auroux
Laboratoire d'histoire des théories linguistiques, CNRS, Université Paris 7
- Biological evolution
David Sloan Wilson
Binghamton University
- Genetics of language
Karin Stromswold
Rutgers University
- The evolution of language
Maggie Tallerman
University of Newcastle
2. Animal communication and language
(Mercredi, 23 juin 2010)
- Animal communication
Stephanie White
University of California at Los Angeles
- Primate communication
Klaus Zuberbühler
University of St Andrews
- What has ape language research taught us about human language?
Duane M. Rumbaugh and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Great Ape Trust Research Center and The Language Research Center, Des Moines, Iowa
- Cognitive determinants of language
Pierre Jacob
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
- Sound patterns and conceptual content of the first words
Peter MacNeilage
University of Texas, Austin
3. Embodiment of language
(Jeudi, 24 juin 2010)
- Anatomical determinants of speech and language
David Poeppel
New York University
- Prediction of the ability of reconstituted vocal tracts of fossils to reproduce speech. Ontogenetic and polygenetic considerations for origin of speech
Louis-Jean Boë
Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble, Université Stendhal, Musée national d’Histoire naturelle
- Brain evolution
Terrence Deacon
University of California at berkeley
- Brain lateralization and the emergence of language
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer
Université de Caen
- Mice, chimpanzees and the molecular basis of speech
Wolfgang Enard
MPI EVA, Leipzig
4. Anthropological perspectives
(Vendredi, 25 juin 2010)
- Paleontological foundations of language 1
Ian Tattersall
American Museum of Natural History
- Paleontological foundations of language 2
Jean-Jacques Hublin
MPI EVA, Leipzig
- Language and material culture: relating the middle Stone Age in Southern Africa to the origins of language
Christopher Henshilwood
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and University of Bergen, Norway
- Cognitive capacities of fossil hominids
Francesco D’Errico
CNRS, Paris
- Populations and languages
Jean-Marie Hombert
Université de Lyon 2
Journée d’activités libres
(Samedi, 26 juin 2010)
5. Philosophical, social and psychological perspectives
(Dimanche, 27 juin 2010)
- Philosophical view points on the origins of language
Kim Sterelny
Victoria University of Wellington
- A pragmatic account of the origin of language
Dan Sperber
CNRS, Paris
- Co-evolution of language and culture
William Durham
Stanford University
- Origins of human communication,
Michael Tomasello
MPI EVA, Leipzig
- On the origins of meaning
James Hurford
University of Edinburgh
6. Theories of language origin
(Lundi, 28 juin 2010)
- Cognitive and social aspects of language origins
Alan Barnard
University of Edinburgh
- Musical proto-language: Darwin’s theory of language
W. Tecumseh Fitch
University of St Andrews
- Symbol grounding and the origin of language
Stevan Harnad
Université du Québec à Montréal
- Gestural theory
Michael Corballis
University of Auckland
- On the nature of linguistic computations
Luigi Rizzi
University of Siena
7. Computational modeling of language
(Mardi, 29 juin 2010)
- Language as a culturally evolving system: from computer simulation to the experiment lab
Simon Kirby
University of Edinburgh
- Brains, Genes and Language Evolution
Morten Christiansen
Cornell University
- How language emerges in situated embodied interactions
Luc Steels
Free University of Brussels
- Artificial life modeling of language evolution
Domenico Parisi
CNR, Rome
- Mirror systems: evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
Michael Arbib
University of Southern California
8. Linguistic perspectives
(Mercredi, 30 juin 2010)
- What do linguists have to say about the evolution of language?
Bernard Comrie
MPI EVA, Leipzig
- On the origin of grammar
Bernd Heine
University of Cologne / Universität Köln
- On the relevance of pidgins and creoles in the debate on language origins
Claire Lefebvre
Université du Québec à Montréal
- Arbitrary signs and the emergence of language
Denis Bouchard
Université du Québec à Montréal
Séance de clôture
- Bernard Comrie
MPI EVA, Leipzig
