Programme
Toutes les activités auront lieu dans la salle DS-R510, sauf la conférence d'ouverture (Studio-Théâtre Alfred Laliberté, J-M400).
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Inscriptions
(Lundi, 21 juin 2010)
Séance d’ouverture - Activité ouverte au public
(Lundi, 21 juin 2010)
- What is Language?
Ray Jackendoff
Tufts University
Notez que la conférence de Ray Jackendoff est publique et ne nécessite donc pas d'inscription. Pour les horaires, le lieu et toute autre information, consultez le site de l'Institut des Sciences cognitives.
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
Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lettres Sciences Humaines - Biological evolution
David Sloan Wilson
Binghamton University - Genetics of language
Karin Stromswold
Rutgers University - The evolution of language
Maggie Tallerman
University of Newcastle - Discussant: Bernard Comrie
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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 - Discussant: Rudiger Krahe
McGill University
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 - Biological constraints and sound patterns
Lucie Ménard
Université du Québec à Montréal - Brain lateralization and the emergence of language
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer
CNRS-CEA - Mice, chimpanzees and the molecular basis of speech
Wolfgang Enard
MPI EVA, Leipzig - Discussant: Henri Cohen
Université Paris Descartes
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
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Benoît Dubreuil
Université du Québec à Montréal - Cognitive capacities of fossil hominids
Francesco D’Errico
CNRS, Paris - Brain evolution
Terrence Deacon
University of California at Berkeley - Discussant: Ariane Burke
Université de Montréal
Journée d’activités libres
(Samedi, 26 juin 2010)
5. Philosophical, social and psychological perspectives
(Dimanche, 27 juin 2010)
- A pragmatic account of the origin of language
Dan Sperber
CNRS, Paris - Populations and languages
Jean-Marie Hombert
Université de Lyon 2 - 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 - Discussant: Benoît Dubreuil
Université du Québec à Montréal
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 - Discussant: Denis Bouchard
Université du Québec à Montréal
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
Stafano Nolfi
CNR, Rome - Mirror systems: evolving imitation and the bridge from praxis to language
Michael Arbib
University of Southern California - Discussant: Stevan Harnad
Université du Québec à Montréal
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 - Discussant: Laura Gonnerman
McGill University
Séance de clôture
- Bernard Comrie
MPI EVA, Leipzig