Program
3/10 (Wed)
| 12:00-13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00-13:10 | Opening remarks |
| 13:10-14:40 | "The evolution of language: Cognitive phylogenetics and the comparative approach" |
| Tecumseh Fitch (U Wien) | |
| 14:55-16:25 | "Biolinguistic minimalism and language evolution" |
| Koji Fujita (Kyoto U) | |
| 16:25-16:55 | Coffee Break |
| 16:55-18:25 | "Prosody and recursion in primate vocalizations" |
| Didier Demolin (ULB) | |
| 19:00-21:30 | Banquet |
3/11 (Thu)
| 09:30-11:00 | "Meaning coordination, semantic construals, and bodily action: implication for language evolution" |
| Rafael Núñez (UC San Diego) | |
| 11:15-12:45 | "Constructive approach to language evolution" |
| Takashi Hashimoto (JAIST) | |
| 12:45-14:45 | Lunch |
| 14:45-16:15 | "The human language faculty evolving" |
| Cedric Boeckx (ICREA/UAB) | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 16:45-18:15 | "Cognitive mechanism of language and cultural evolution" |
| Yoshihisa Nakamura (Kanazawa U) |
3/12 (Fri)
| 09:30-11:00 | "Biological preadaptations for language" |
| Kazuo Okanoya (RIKEN BSI) | |
| 11:15-13:15 | Panel discussion |
| 13:15-13:20 | Closing remarks |