ABACUS symposium: speech from an evolutionary perspective

Attendance is free, but registration is required. You can register here: http://www.mpi.nl/events/abacus/registration 

Registration deadline: December 15th 2016

The ABACUS symposium presents a series of lectures by invited speakers from a wide range of disciplines, and aims to discuss how we can further advance the study of speech from an evolutionary perspective. The evolutionary perspective entails trying to understand how linguistic signals, as well as the cognitive and anatomical machinery to use them, came to be the way they are. The symposium is held in the context of the end of the ERC project ABACUS led by Prof. Bart de Boer.

Dan Dediu – Language & Genetics (MPI Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Tecumseh Fitch – Cognitive Biology (University of Vienna, Austria)

Marco Gamba – Primatology & Bioacoustics (University of Turin, Italy)

Odette Scharenborg -Human and automatic speech processing (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Marieke Schouwstra – Simulating conventionalization in the lab (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Tessa Verhoef – Evolution of linguistic structure (UC San Diego, USA)

Anne Warlaumont – Emergence of communication (UC Merced, USA)

Andy Wedel – Language change (University of Arizona, USA)

Sabine van der Ham, sabine@ai.vub.ac.be