Workshop on the Evolution of Language

in Belgium and the Netherlands

November 17, 2000 - Atomium, Brussels

PROGRAM

Session Grammar




• 9:00 Invited talk 1: Gerard Kempen


• 9:40 Coffeebreak


• 9:55 Introduction Luc Steels
• 10:00 Bernard H. Bichakjian Language evolution: evidence, acceptance and future research
• 10:20 Guy De Pauw, Walter Daelemans Data-Driven GRAEL: a distributed, evolutionary computing approach to grammar induction and optimization
• 10:40 Tania Kuteva Bickerton's ""bio-program"", and the evolutionary point of view: New evidence from grammaticalization studies
• 11:00 Niels A. Taatgen Evolution of language: the balance between rules and exceptions


• 11:20 Invited talk 2: Luc Steels From language games to grammar
• 12:00 Discussion


• 12:15 Lunch



Session Phonology




• 13:45 Introduction Bart de Boer
• 13:50 Daniel Livingstone Computational Models of Language Change and Diversity
• 14:10 Holger Mitterer Are connected-speech processes selected for communicative consequences?
• 14:30 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer Cultural self-organisation of syllable systems
• 14:50 Discussion



Session Meaning




• 15:05 Introduction Paul Vogt
• 15:10 Bart Geurts Symbolic Beginnings
• 15:30 Petra Hendriks, Esther Stiekema Cognitive Embedding of Language in Autonomous Agents


• 15:50 Coffeebreak


• 16:05 Erik Myin Two theories of perception, meaning and language
• 16:25 George van Driem The Language Organism: A symbiotic theory of language
• 16:45 Joris Van Looveren Emergence of Adjective and Noun Concepts
• 17:05 Willem H. Zuidema Language evolution: establishing conventions and exploiting constraints
• 17:25 Discussion


• 17:40 Closing


• 18:00 Dinner in the Atomium