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Microsoft Word - Irurtzun_named.doc Some Maladaptive Traits of Natural Language Aritz Irurtzun CNRS-IKER One of the biggest issues in current biolinguistics concerns the discussion of the putative adaptive nature of human language. Thus, a range of authors defend the view that language is an eminently adaptive tool that evolved for communication purposes (cf. Pinker and Bloom (1990); Pinker and Ja
Working Papers 55. 2015 Linguistics Lund University ISSN 0280-526X Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature General Linguistics Phonetics Working Papers 55. 2015 Proceedings from Fonetik 2015 Lund, June 8–10, 2015 Lund University Centre for Languages and Literature General Linguistics Phonetics Working Papers 55. 2015 Proceedings from Fonetik 2015 Lund, June 8–10, 2015 Edited by Malin S
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Microsoft Word - Book of Abstracts - ILL12.docx BOOK OF ABSTRACTS The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12) 3-5 May 2019 Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University The 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature | 3-5 May 2019 2 Table of contents Table of contents .............................................................
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What insights can we draw from universal and language-specific sound symbolism with regards to the Symbol Grounding Problem? Mutsumi Imai Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa The role of iconicity in language acquisition: The case of sound symbolism Mutsumi Imai Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa imai@sfc.keio.ac.jp Important thesis of language • The relation between word form and meaning is arbitra
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GLOW submission In Defense of the Merge-Only Hypothesis Koji Fujita / Kyoto University In this presentation I defend and further consolidate the “Merge-only” hypothesis of current minimalism (Chomsky 2008, 2010, Berwick 2011, Berwick & Chomsky 2011, inter alia) by proposing a theory of language evolution according to which it was Merge that gave rise to other major components of the human language
Kjær_etal_mod The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden The context of scholarship of teaching and learning: identification and understanding of different microcultures C. Kjær, and R. Troelsen, University of Southern Denmark and K. Mårtensson, and T. Roxå, University of Lund ABSTRACT: Scholarship of teaching and learning takes place in contexts. These contexts or microcultures in w
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1 ÖVDALIAN – A BRIEF BACKGROUND 1. Research history and standardization Övdalian is spoken in the northern parts of Dalecarlia, in the parish of Älvdalen (Övdaln), by about 3000 speakers (the parish has 5200 inhabitants, roughly, but estimates of the number of speakers vary; see http://www.alvdalen.se/alvdalska2005.htm). There are 21 villages in the parish, with minor dialectal differences, mainly
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Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward Movement Jason Overfelt, University of Massachusetts Amherst 1. Introduction. The existence of rightward movement faces at least two serious challenges. First, Ross (1967) argued that it is subject to stricter locality conditions than, for instance, wh- movement. Second, Akmajian (1975) argued that rightward movement is not obviously successive- cyclic in the
Alignment of tonal targets: 30 years on Alignment of tonal targets: 30 years on Bob Ladd University of Edinburgh Bruce, Gösta (1977). Swedish Word Accents in Sentence Perspective. (Lund). Ladd, D. Robert (1978, published 1980). The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English. (Cornell). Pierrehumbert, Janet (1980). The Phonology and Phonetics of English Intonation. (MIT). Gösta or Bob
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A universal Information concept? CAN COGNITIVE SEMIOTICS BE A “SCIENCE” IF ITS PURPOSE IS TO BE A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE NATURAL, SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES? IS THERE A TRANSDISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE? Søren Brier 1 Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not Enough, Toronto University Press 2008, 2010, 2013. Google book and Kindle. Cybersemiotics.com, Facebook and YouTube 2 NATURE (UNIVERSE) CULTURE (SOCIETY
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parketal_REV The 2nd EuroSoTL conference, June 8-9 2017, Lund, Sweden Learning by doing: Going mobile in the field J. Parkb , D. Francea, A. Mauchlineb, and B. Whalleyc a) Department of Geography and Development Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK; b) School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, UK; c) Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Shef
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CBL abstract GLOW PROSPECTS FOR A COMPARATIVE BIOLINGUISTICS CEDRIC BOECKX, WOLFRAM HINZEN, ANTONIO BENITEZ-BURRACO Variation thoroughly pervades language. The human faculty for language FL (i.e. our capacity for acquiring and using a language) manifests itself in the form of many different languages, which are in turn slightly diverse across diverse social groups, interactional contexts, geograph
TSVGLOW 1 The historical reality of biolinguistic diversity Giuseppe Longobardi, Cristina Guardiano^, Luca Bortolussi°, Andrea Sgarro°, Giuseppina Silvestri°*, Andrea Ceolin° Univ. York, ^Univ. Modena e Reggio Emilia, °Univ. Trieste, *Univ. Pisa Goals. Arguing that the historical application of the biolinguistic model can complement molecular antrhopology to model out a ‘grammatical anthropology
Duanmu Prosody and word length in Chinese San Duanmu, University of Michigan The eminent Swedish sinologist Bernhard Karlgren (1918) made an insightful observation of an unusual property of Chinese: Many Chinese words have two synonymous forms, one short (monosyllabic) and one long (disyllabic), such as jian ‘see’ and kan-jian ‘look-see’. The long form is made by adding another morpheme to the sho
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Dia 1 Reflexivity without reflexives: What does it tell us? Eric Reuland & Anna Volkova Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS e.reuland@uu.nl | a.volkova@uu.nl http://eric.reuland.nl GLOW 36 Lund, April 2-6, 2013 The current lay of the land • Challenges to the consensus (UG, the role of hierarchical structure in language) • Cross-linguistic variation: Where is the unity in the diversity? • Data-dri
GLOW 2013 Workshop II April 2 SYNTACTIC VARIATION AND CHANGE Organizers: David Håkansson (Uppsala), Ida Larsson (Stockholm), Erik Magnusson Petzell (Stockholm) Contact: ida.larsson@nordiska.su.se Invited speaker: Marit Westergaard, University of Tromsø Deadline for submission: November 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2013 Submission of abstracts: https://www.easychair.org/conferen
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Document1 Tractometry and the search for the missing link Derek Jones School of Psychology, University of Cardiff In this 'works in progress' / brainstorming talk, I will begin by motivating the need for more meaningful quantitative metrics of white matter 'connectivity' and use this to introduce 'Tractometry' – the automated quantification of biologically-meaningful metrics along specific white m
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