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The 3rd Linguistic Conference for Doctoral Students will take place at Heidelberg University, Germany from 05.-06. April 2013. The overarching topic of the conference will be: "Interdisciplinar...

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As I mentioned in my previous post, the 2012 Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) features a thematic section on “Theory and evidence in language evolution research .” This section's invited...

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Today James Winters  of Replicated Typo  and I are giving a talk at the Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM) on “Integrating Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution Research .”  It’s ...

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The first plenary talk at this year’s Poznań Linguistic Meeting was by Dirk Geeraerts , who is professor of linguistics at the The first plenary talk at this year’s Poznań Linguistic M...

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>>  Evolang  is busy this year - 4 >>  parallel sessions and over 50 posters. We'll be positing a series >>  of previews to help you decide what to go and see. I...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2012/03/evolang-preview-cognitive-construal.html

Over at replicated typo, Sean has recorded what very likely is the first song ever about language evolution: "You'll never teach a monkey how to sing " Go and listen to it, it's fantastic! On ...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-ever-song-about-language.html

As I wrote in my last post , three kinds of behaviours are most often discussed in debates about animal consciousness and cognition: > “1. MIRROR SELF-RECOGNITIOn >  2. TESTS OF MET...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2012/01/animal-cognition-consciousness-ii.html

Darwin made a mistake. At least that is what Derek Penn and his colleagues (2008) claim in a recent and controversial paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences . Darwin (1871) famously argued that t...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2012/01/nimal-cognition-consciousness-i-mirror.html

The Annual Review of Psychology for the year 2012 is now available. From a language evolution/evolution of human cognition point of view, there are two articles that look particularly interestin...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/12/annual-review-of-psychology-2012.html

Yesterday I watched the second episode of Stephen Fry's four-part documentary series Planet Word which dealt with Identity and also had a short tidbit about Linguistic Relativity featuring an int...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/10/accent-forecasts-in-uk-and-germany.html

Today marks the 4th Birthday of this Blog, and although I haven't managed to post anything in quite a while, I thought I'd use this happy occasion to point out some interesting links: First, Ja...

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The current issue of First Language features some interesting articles on the evolution of language: It includes a book review of Michael Tomasello 's "Origins of Human Communication " by Evan...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/07/communication-in-bonobos-chimpanzees.html

From Perlman & Miller (2009): > Powerful people are not very good at comprehending other people's > point of view and taking their perspective: "If you ask powerful > peop...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/06/power-and-perspective-taking.html

I just stumbled across this interesting website called "On The Human." Its > "an online community of humanists and scientists dedicated to > improving our understanding of persons...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/06/on-human-terrence-deacon-rethinking.html

Edmund Blair Bolles over at Babel's Dawn discusses a very interesting review of "FOXP2 and the role of cortico-basal ganglia circuits in speech and language evolution " by Wolfgang Enard . Be s...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-of-foxp2-and-its-role-in-brain.html

It looks like Terrence Deacon, famed author of The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (1997), the second most cited text in the Language Evolution and Computation Bib...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/05/terrence-deacon-incomplete-nature.html

Does the language we speak influence or even shape the way we think? Last December, there was an interesting debate over at The Economist website with Lera Boroditsky defending the motion, and ...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/05/does-language-shape-thought-different.html

From the current issue of the Journal of Child Language : "The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Du...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-do-children-learn-difference-betwen.html

The December 2010 issue of 'Developmental Review' features a nice meta-analysis of of studies on pointing and language development by Cristina Colonnesia, Geert Jan J.M. Stamsa, Irene Kostera, ...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/03/relation-between-pointing-and-language.html

Barbara King points to a very interesting article in press at Animal Behaviour . In their essay "The language void: the need for multimodality in primate communication research" Katie Slocombe...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/03/need-for-multimodality-in-primate.html

John Hawks has posted a fascinating discussion of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (here ) by Bedny et al. that shows that in congenitally blind adult...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/03/john-hawks-how-language-eats-brains-and.html

In the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences there is an interesting (and free!) review of the linguistics of birdsong and its similarities and differences to human language: > Unl...

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/2011/02/linguistics-of-birdsong-review-in.html

The latest edition of the Four Stone Hearth #112 is out over at Anthropology in Practice and contains a number of very interesting links. For example, they link to a very interesting post by...

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Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies | Video on TED.com "At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to t...

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One of the most hotly debated issues in the study of language acquisition is whether the abstract syntactic principles of a language can be learned by children > 1. by using domain-general�...

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