The workshop will take place on Tuesday 14th April, 2020, 9am - 1pm.

You can download a pdf of the schedule and all the abstracts on our OSF page.

09:00 - 09:10 Workshop introduction

Yasamin Motamedi

09:10 - 09:35 Can emotional communication be semantically rich? The case of titi monkeys

Melissa Berthet, Juan Benjumea, Juliette Millet, Cristiane Cäsar, Klaus Zuberbühler and Ewan Dunbar

09:35 - 10:00 Biomechanics as the primordial basis for the emergence of co-speech gesture

Wim Pouw

10:00 - 10:25 The contribution of partner dance communication to the demarcation of language

Monica Tamariz

10:25 - 10:50 The cultural evolution of collateral signals

Mark Dingemanse and Marieke Woensdregt

10:50 - 11:10 BREAK

11:10 - 11:35 What non-manuals can add to the puzzle of conventionalisation: insights from two micro-community sign languages

Rehana Omardeen and Hannah Lutzenberger

11:35 - 12:00 Gesture versus sign: moving beyond the binary

Adam Schembri and Kensy Cooperrider

12:00 - 12:25 Length of time with a writing system predicts greater morpho-syntactic complexity

Charles Torres and Andrew Wedel

12:25 - 12:35 BREAK

12:35 - 13:00 Discussion