Presentations

Dunn, M. (2011). Language networks and reconstructed protolanguages. Talk presented at Bridging Disciplines: Evolution and Classification in Biology, Linguistics and the History of Sciences. Ulm University, Wissenschaftszentrum Schloss Reisensburg, Germany. 2011-06-24 - 2011-06-26. more >
Dunn, M. (2011). Men's and Women's Dialects. Talk presented at The Expression of Gender. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2011-03-04.
Kolipakam, V., Jordan, F., Dunn, M., & Kayser, M. (2011). Modelling sex-biased migration in the Pacific. Poster presented at 7th International Society for Applied Biological Conference on Forensic, Anthropologic and Medical Genetics, Bol, Croatia. more >

Dunn, M. (2010). Language diversification under contact. Talk presented at The LCHES Seminar in Human Evolution. Cambridge, UK. 2010-10-20.
Dunn, M. (2010). Lantern in the darkness or Will 'o the Wisp? Phylogenetic alternatives to the cognitive reality of language universals. Talk presented at The 1st European workshop of the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci). Pilzen, Czech Republic. 2010-09-22 - 2010-09-24. more >
Dunn, M., & Jordan, F. (2010). Centrifugal forces in language change under contact. Talk presented at Languages in Contact. Wrocław, Poland. 2010-05-22 - 2010-05-23. more >
Dunn, M., & Jordan, F. (2010). Spatial and demographic determinants of language change. Talk presented at Cultural Evolution in Spatially Structured Populations [AHRC CECD 2010 Conference]. London, UK. 2010-09-13 - 2010-09-15. more >
Dunn, M., & Jordan, F. (2010). What to think about the neighbors: Assimilation and dissimilation in language and culture. Talk presented at 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. Albuquerque. 2010-02-17 - 2010-02-20. more >
Dunn, M., & Jordan, F. (2010). Why are languages different?. Talk presented at Surprise workshop in honour of Prof. Pieter Muysken's 60th birthday. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2010-04-14.

Dunn, M. (2009). Evolutionary processes in language. Talk presented at International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Nijmegen. 2009-08-10 - 2009-08-14. more >
Dunn, M. (2009). The evolution of language structures. Talk presented at Classification and Evolution in Biology, Linguistics and History of Science. Düsseldorf. 2009-06-11 - 2009-06-12. more >
Dunn, M., & Greenhill, S. (2009). The evolution of phonological complexity in Austronesian. Talk presented at The 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Aussois, France. 2009-06-22 - 2009-06-26. more >
Dunn, M., Burenhult, N., Kruspe, N., Tufvesson, S., & Bekker, N. (2009). Quantifying lexical diversity in the Aslian languages. Talk presented at Quantifying lexical diversity in the Aslian languages. Siem Reap, Cambodia. 2009-01-07 - 2009-01-10. more >
Dunn, M., Reesink, G., & Singer, R. (2009). Admixture models and the linguistic diversity of Sahul. Talk presented at Languages in Contact Colloquium. Radboud University Nijmegen. 2009-05-20. more >

Dunn, M., & Majid, A. (2008). Language phylogeny trumps geography in lexical semantic variation. Talk presented at the 20th Annual Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference. Symposium “Cultural phylogenetics: Cultural evolution”. Kyoto University, Japan. 2008-06-04 - 2008-06-08. more >

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