THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LANGUAGE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH APRIL 1-4 1996
SPONSORS: The University of Edinburgh, the Royal Anthropological
Institute, and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain.
INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (U.Hawaii), Paul Bloom
(U.Arizona), Robert Boyd (UCLA), Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
(U.Canterbury, N.Z.), Dan Dennett (Tufts U.), Paul Fletcher (U.Hong
Kong), Myrna Gopnik (U.Montreal), Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis U.), Philip
Lieberman (Brown U.), Bjorn Lindblom (U.Stockholm), Frederick Newmeyer
(U.Washington), Johanna Nichols (U.C.Berkeley), Merritt Ruhlen (ex
Stanford), Leon Stassen (U.Nijmegen), Chris Stringer (Natural History
Museum, London), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs).
FOCUSSED THEMES:
1. LANGUAGE ORIGINS AND THE EMERGENCE/DISPERSAL OF MODERN
HUMANS
2. CONTINUITY/DISCONTINUITY OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY WITH OTHER
HUMAN AND NONHUMAN SYSTEMS.
PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE DEC.15 1995) TO:
Professor James R Hurford, Dept. of Linguistics, University of
Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, 40 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL,
or by email to: jim@ling.ed.ac.uk