Confrontational scavenging as a possible source for language and cooperation
New language/cooperation paper by Bickerton and Szathmáry today. What a dream team. The best news is that it’s open access. WOO! GO OPEN ACCESS! Here’s the abstract: The emergence of language and the...
View ArticleNeural Language Networks at Birth
I haven’t had chance to read this paper, but it throws up some interesting discussion points relating to this blog. In particular, it relates to a hypothesis I put forward last year on Domain-General...
View ArticleNew Blog: A Rare Bite of Linguistics
Being someone who likes to welcome new academics blogs on the scene, particularly ones of a linguistic tilt, I urge you to go over, visit, read and maybe even leave a comment at A Rare Bite of...
View ArticleLanguage Evolution Session at EHBEA 2012
H/T: Evolutionary Linguistics. Call deadline: 25 November 2011 Event Dates: 15-28 March 2012 Event Location: Durham, UK Event URL: http://www.dur.ac.uk/jeremy.kendal/EHBEA2012/Welcome.html Dear...
View ArticleDeictic Gestures in Ravens
Guys! Guys! Guys! Ravens can point. It’s scary how clever birds can be. People keep sending me this paper so I thought I’d link to it here so that people know I’ve seen it and stop bothering me (I...
View ArticleAdvances in Visual Methods for Linguistics (AVML2012)
Some peeps over the the University of York are organising a conference on the advances in visual methods for linguistics (AVML) to take place in September next year. This might be of interest to...
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