DILE2023 – Directions in Language Evolution

Collegium Maius, address: Fosa Staromiejska 3, Old Town in Toruń

DAY 1 – Wednesday 19 April 2023
room 307 Sala Kolankowskiego, second floor
10:00 – 10:15: Opening remarks
10:15 – 11:00: Gareth Roberts: “Competition for semantic resources in artificial languages”
11:00 – 11:45: Elizabeth Qing Zhang: “The Contribution of Chinese to Language Evolution Research”
11:45 – 1:00: Lunch break
1:00 – 2:30: Roundtable discussion – THE INSTITUTIONAL FUTURE OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

DAY 2 – Thursday 20 April 2023
room 119, ground floor
10:00 – 10:15: Opening remarks
10:15 – 11:00: Molly Flaherty: “Young Languages and Young Learners: Taking Child Learning Seriously”
11:00 – 11:45: Felicia Bisnath: “Deconstructing notions of morphological complexity: lessons from signed and spoken languages”
11:45 – 1:00: Lunch break
1:00 – 1:45: Mara Moita: “Organization and annotation of signed corpora”
1:45 – 2:30: Ana Mineiro: “Research on Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language Emergence”
2:30 – 2:50: Coffee break
2:50 – 4:20: Roundtable discussion – DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

DAY 3 – Friday 21 April 2023
room 119, ground floor
research presentations by Centre for Language Evolution Studies (CLES)
11:00-11:20 Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska: “When pointing doesn’t point any more: on the development of gesture in children” (to be confirmed)
11:20-11:40 Vojtech Fiala: “Mapping associations between phenotypic variation in the human eye and face perception: A pilot study”
11:40-12:00 Sławomir Wacewicz: “The adaptive significance of human irido-scleral colouration – project presentation”
12:00-12:20 Theresa Matzinger: “Interactional correlates of cooperation in corpus data – project presentation”
12:20- 12:40 Marek Placiński, Przemysław Żywiczyński: “Sign simplification in dyadic interaction”
12:40-13:00 Michael Pleyer: “Metaphor and Semiotics in (Inter)Action”

This workshop received funding from the Polish National Science Centre under grant agreements UMO-2019/34/E/HS2/00248 and 2021/43/P/HS2/02729.