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2011

  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). A revolution in the language sciences?. Talk presented at The ALEAR workshop on The future of Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain. 2011-01-23 - 2011-01-25.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Cross–cultural universals and communication structures. Talk presented at the Ernst Strungmann Forum: Language, Music and the Brain. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-13. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Inferring Speech acts. Talk presented at Workshop on Post-Gricean Pragmatics and Meaning. University of Cambridge, UK. 2011-05-20.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Multi-action turns. Talk presented at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference [IPrA 2011]. University of Manchester, UK. 2011-07-03 - 2011-07-08. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Obstacles and options for cross–disciplinary cooperation in the cognitive sciences [Panel discussion]. Talk presented at the ZiF Conference on The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition. Bielefeld University, Germany. 2011-10-13 - 2011-10-14.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Origins of cross–cultural diversity. Talk presented at the Workshop of the Max Planck Research Group for Comparative Cognitive Anthropology. Schloss Ringberg, Germany. 2011-12-14 - 2011-12-17.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Recursion in pragmatics. Talk presented at The International Conference on Language and Recursion. Mons, Belgium. 2011-03-14 - 2011-03-16. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2011). Vocal tract, speech, genes and language typology. Talk presented at Workshop on Co-variation in vocal tract anatomy, speech perception, genes and language typology. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2011-02-25.

2010

  • Janzen, G., Haun, D. B. M., & Levinson, S. C. (2010). Neural correlates of relative and intrinsic frames of reference. Poster presented at HBM 2010 - The 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). Action in interaction. Talk presented at the Action Ascription in Social Interaction Workshop. University of California. Los Angeles. 2010-10-07 - 2010-10-11. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories: A review of the issues. Talk presented at the International workshop: Hunter-gatherers and semantic categories. Neuwied, Germany. 2010-05-31 - 2010-06-04.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). Landscape: A crossroads for language, culture and cognition. Talk presented at Space and Time across Languages, Disciplines and Cultures [STALDAC 2010]. Cambridge, UK. 2010-04-08 - 2010-04-10.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). Linguistic diversity and the interaction engine. Talk presented at The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain [Henry Sweet Lecture 2010]. Leeds, UK. 2010-09-01 - 2010-09-02. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). Speech acts in action (and interaction). Talk presented at Sentence Types, Sentence Moods and Illocutionary Forces: An International Conference to honor Manfred Bierwisch. Berlin. 2010-11-04 - 2010-11-06.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2010). The evolutionary revolution in the language sciences. Talk presented at the Symposium on Evolutionary Perspectives on the Human Sciences. Turku, Finland. 2010-05-21 - 2010-05-22. more >
  • Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2010). The language of perception across cultures. Talk presented at the XXth Congress of European Chemoreception Research Organization, Symposium on "Senses in language and culture". Avignon, France. 2010-09-14 - 2010-09-19. more >
  • Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2010). The shaping of language of perception across cultures [Keynote lecture]. Talk presented at the Humanities of the Lesser-Known Conference [HLK 2010]. Lund, Sweden. 2010-09-11. more >

2009

  • Levinson, S. C. (2009). Linguistic diversity and its implications for the language sciences [Ken Hale Lecture]. Talk presented at the 2009 Linguistic Institute. University of California, Berkeley. 2009-07-30. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2009). Rethinking the language sciences. Talk presented at the Symposium on 'Why aren't the social sciences Darwinian?'. Cambridge, UK. 2009-05-15. more >
  • Levinson, S. C. (2009). The island of time. Talk presented at the Time in Space Workshop. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2009-04-14.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2009). The language sciences in the Darwin centenary. Talk presented at Seminar at the University of Münster. Münster, Germany. 2009-04-04.
  • Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2009). An overview of the senses across languages and cultures. Talk presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. 2009-12-02 - 2009-12-05. more >

2008

  • Majid, A., Haun, D. B. M., Rapold, C. J., Call, J., Janzen, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2008). Cognitive Inheritance and Cultural Override in Human Spatial Cognition. Talk presented at the 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting. 90-Minute Symposium. “Thinking with and without language”. Boston, MA. 2008-02-15. more >

2007

  • Majid, A., & Levinson, S. C. (2007). Quantifying semantic regularity across languages. Talk presented at the Workshop Semantic Maps: Methods and Applications. CNRS, Paris. 2007-09-29.

2008

  • Levinson, S. C. (2008). Semplates - Implicit conceptual templates in language - and their origin. AAA, San Francisco, November.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2008). Levels of distinction: On the regimentation and lamination of linguistic levels. Panel discussion, AAA, San Francisco, November.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2008). From landscape to grammar. Talk given at the meeting of the Philological Society, Manchester, November 7.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2008). The elements of motion. Talk given at the workshop on Human locomotion across languages. MPI, June 6.

2007

  • Levinson, S. C. (2007). Towards principles of primate social life. Workshop Competition meets cooperation, Radboud University and MPI, October.
  • Majid, A. & Levinson, S. C. (2007). Quantifying semantic regularity across languages. ALT VII International conference, Paris, September.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2007). Guugu Yimithirr narrative as multimodal interaction. Talk given at the Cape York workshop, MPI, January.

2006

  • Levinson, S. C. (2006). The ‘interaction engine’: A core ethology and its diverse manifestations. Presidential symposium. San Jose, CA: American Anthropological Association conference, November.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2006). Reciprocals in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island. Talk given at the Reciprocals workshop, MPI Nijmegen, April.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2006). Questions about questions. Talk given at the workshop: Questions and their responses, MPI Nijmegen, March.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2006). Enrolling other sciences in language documentation: Describing an isolate language, Yélî Dnye, in Papua New Guinea. Plenary at the meeting of the 28th DGfS conference, Bielefeld, February.

2005

  • Levinson, S. C. (2005). Spatial relationships in Oceania: Language, mind and culture. Talk given at the AAA Annual meeting, Washington, DC, December
  • Janzen, G., Haun, D. B. M. & Levinson, S. C. (2005). Neural correlates of intrinsic and relative frames of reference. Poster presented at the 13th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, Leiden, August 31st –September 3rd.

2004

  • Levinson, S. C. (2004). Diversity in human spatial cognition: where prehistory, culture, language and biology meet. Influential Thinkers Series, Department of Anthropology, UCLA. March 1.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2004) Living with Manny's dangerous idea. Talk given at the Symposium: Theories and Models of Language, Interaction and Culture UCLA. February 27-8.

2003

  • Levinson, S. C. (2003). The evolution of human spatial cognition: Or how we nearly lost our bearings. Talk given at the Founding conference ‘From brain to behaviour: The evolution of human cognition’. Leverhulme Center for Human evolutionary studies. Univ. of Cambridge, November.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2003). Rossel and Sudest. Conference Pioneers of Island Melanesia. King’s College, Cambridge. April.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2003) Thoughts on notions of projection. Workshop on Projection in Interaction. MPI Nijmegen, March.
  • Levinson, S. C. (2003). Evolutie en taal. Course given at the University of Nijmegen, Honours Program, April 3.

2002

  • Brugman, H., Wittenburg, P., Levinson, S. C. & Kita, S. (2002). Multimodal annotations in gesture and sign language studies. Paper presented at the LRECC conference, Las Palmas, May.

  • Levinson, S. C. (2002). Prospects for a new field: Semantic typology. Paper presented at the International Linguistics Conference ‘Reviewing linguistic thought: Perspectives into the 21st century’. Athens, May 21-24

  • Meira, S. & Levinson, S. C. (2002) Patterns of semantic discrimination in spatial adpositional systems. International Conference on Adpositions of Movement, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, January 14-16.

2001

  • Levinson, S. C. (2001) ‘Diversity in spatial language and cognition’. Lectures to the Linguistic Society of America, Linguistics Institute, Santa Barbara, July-August.

2000

  • Levinson, S. C. (2000) ‘Color and culture’. Symposium at the College de France, Paris, March 30.

1998

  • Levinson, S. C. (1998) 'Language as nature and language as art'. Plenary session at the Pontifical Academy "Changing concepts", Vatican City, October 28.

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