September 5th - 8th, 2022
Joint Conference on Language Evolution
Co-organized by Evolang, Protolang, and Evolinguistics
at Kanazawa, Japan & Online
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Scientific research on language evolution has been making remarkable progress for some decades now, leading to a rapid growth of interdisciplinary research communities with diverse thematic and methodological foci. In 2022, for the first time, we will hold a joint conference co-organized by Evolang, Protolang, and Evolinguistics.
Scientific research on language evolution has been making remarkable progress for some decades now, leading to a rapid growth of interdisciplinary research communities with diverse thematic and methodological foci. In 2022, for the first time, we will hold a joint conference co-organized by Evolang, Protolang, and Evolinguistics.
Evolang
Evolang
Evolution of Language International Conferences
Protolang
Protolang
Ways to (proto)language conference series
The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings, with a thematic focus on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language.
The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings, with a thematic focus on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language.
Evolinguistics
Evolinguistics
Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative communication
Evolutionary linguistics to study past, present, and future of co-creative linguistic communication. Supported by MEXT, Japan, 2017-2022.
Evolutionary linguistics to study past, present, and future of co-creative linguistic communication. Supported by MEXT, Japan, 2017-2022.
This conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to bring together all the language evolution research communities, enabling a global platform for interdisciplinary discussion.
This conference will provide an unprecedented opportunity to bring together all the language evolution research communities, enabling a global platform for interdisciplinary discussion.
Keynote Presenters
Keynote Presenters
Cedric Boeckx
Cedric Boeckx
University of Barcelona, Spain
Kazuo Okanoya
Kazuo Okanoya
Teikyo University, Japan
Carol Padden
Carol Padden
University of California, USA
Simone Pika
Simone Pika
Osnabrück University, Germany
Invited Presenters
Invited Presenters
Limor Raviv
Limor Raviv
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands
Koji Fujita
Koji Fujita
Kyoto University, Japan
Zanna Clay
Zanna Clay
Durham University, UK
Takashi Hashimoto
Takashi Hashimoto
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Yasuo Ihara
Yasuo Ihara
University of Tokyo, Japan
Judith Burkart
Judith Burkart
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Aniruddh Patel
Aniruddh Patel
Tufts University, USA
Harumi Kobayashi
Harumi Kobayashi
Tokyo Denki University, Japan
The Venue
The Venue
Address: 15-1 Takaokamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0864, Japan
Address: 15-1 Takaokamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-0864, Japan
The conference will take place as a hybrid online & on-site conference in Kanazawa, Japan.
The conference will take place as a hybrid online & on-site conference in Kanazawa, Japan.
Supported by
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