2nd Nijmegen Gesture Center (NGC) Spring Workshop: Language Evolution in our Hand

Language Evolution in our Hand

Program:

tea & coffee

09:30-09:45   Opening

09:45-10:30   The co-evolvement of hands and mouth in utterance construction: Implications for Language Origins Theories - Adam Kendon, University of Pennsylvania

10:30-11:15    Early Links between iconic gestures and sound symbolic words: Evidence for multimodal protolanguage - Sotaro Kita, University of Birmingham

tea & coffee

11:30-12:15    From Gesture to Sign: Conventionalization of  spatial expressions - Asli Ozyurek, Inge Zwitserlood, & Pamela Perniss, Radboud University Nijmegen & MPI

lunch

14:00-14:45    Homesign to Language in Nicaragua: A Case Study of Language Genesis - Marie Coppola, University of Connecticut

14:45-15:30    The emergence and evolution of Nicaraguan spatial and number signs - Ann Senghas, Barnard College NY

tea & coffee 

15:45-16:30    Language acquisition after prolonged linguistic isolation: Insights for language evolution - Rachel Mayberry & Naja Ferjan, University of California, San Diego

16:30-17:00    Closing discussion

Please register by sending an e-mail to:

Connie de Vos connie.devos@mpi.nl

Asli Ozyurek asli.ozyurek@mpi.nl

Where and when:

09:00-17:00 Apr 19, 2010

Conference room 163, Max Planck Institute

Organizers:

Connie de Vos, Asli Ozyurek