Dan Dediu -

Presentations

Some of my presentations and talks:

• Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages [BEDLAN] (University of Turku, Finland, Sept 2011). Invited talk: Are some structural features of language more stable than others and if so, why?.
• Computational Historical Linguistics (International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, Japan, Jul 2011): Invited talk: The stability of typological features.
• Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit (University of Edinburgh, UK, Jan 2011): The stability of typological features.
• Conference on Phonetic Universals (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, Oct 2010): Genetic biasing in language diversity and universals.
• Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages [BEDLAN] (University of Turku, Finland, Sept 2010). Invited talk:Language diversity and its relationships with genes, history and space.
• EVOLANG8 (Models of Language Evolution: Does the Math Add Up?: a workshop of the Evolution of Language Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Apr 2010): Bayesian Models of Language Evolution & Change.
• CEE 2010 Symposium - Integrating Genetic and Cultural Approaches to Language (Queen Mary University of London, 26 Feb 2010). Invited talk: Are languages really independent from genes?
• 150 years since the first edition of "The Origin of Species" (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 24 Nov 2009): The Origin of Species.
• Workshop on Iterated Language Learning (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 20 Apr 2009). Invited talk: Genetic biasing & Bayesian Iterated Language Learning.
• DARWIN's 200th Anniversary (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 12 Feb 2009): Darwin's anniversary 2009.
• EVOLANG7 (The Evolution of Language Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Mar 2008): Genetically biased language transmission: The mechanism of gradual language evolution?
• ALT7 (Association for Linguistic Typology Conference, Paris, France, Sept 2007; with Prof. D. Robert Ladd): Statistical approaches to linguistic typology: Delineating the roles of geography and common descent.
• ISHE Human Ethology Summer School (Max Planck Institute, Andechs, Germany, July 2007): Relationships between Genetic and Linguistic Diversities: The Case of Tone.
• Tone:  mind,  brain,  evolution (Konstanz, Germany, Oct 2006; with Prof. D. Robert Ladd): Genetic Influences on Tonogenesis and the Geographical Distribution of Tone Languages.
• EVOLANG6 (The Evolution of Language Conference, Rome, Italy, Apr 2006): Mostly Out of Africa, but what did the Others have to say?