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Social/population structure Evolution of phonology (duality of patterning) Language universals: Case systems Constraints on movement/binding Simplicity/compressibility and linguistic evolution The Baldwin effect and language Mathematical models: Inductive bias and emergence
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Social/population structure Evolution of phonology (duality of patterning) Language universals: Case systems Constraints on movement/binding Simplicity/compressibility and linguistic evolution The Baldwin effect and language Mathematical models: Inductive bias and emergence Environment structure and evolvability of language Game theory Iterated learning and adaptation Coevolution of meanings and syntax Iterated learning models of musical evolution/creativity Cultural computation Origins of neural architecture Simpler ontology for meanings (formal semantics) Evolutionary plausibility of syntactic theories Evolution of moral systems Some current research topicshttp://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/lec/http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/amag/langev/
Three shameless plugs… International Conference on the Evolution of Language Leipzig March 31st – April 3rd 2004 Abstracts: October 31st