Presentations

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., & Raviv, L. (2026). Facial visibility and the emergence of communication systems: Insights from behavioral measures and facial signals. Talk presented at the International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG XVI ). Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 2026-04-07 - 2026-04-10.

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., Woensdregt, M., & Raviv, L. (2025). The role of face-to-face communication in language evolution. Poster presented at the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 2025), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., Woensdregt, M., & Raviv, L. (2025). The role of the face in language emergence. Talk presented at the MEDAL Conference: New Challenges, Novel Approaches. Tartu, Estonia. 2025-10-09 - 2025-10-10.

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., Woensdregt, M., & Raviv, L. (2025). Do facial signals support language emergence during communication? An experimental approach. Talk presented at Protolang 9. Vienna, Austria. 2025-09-15 - 2025-09-17.

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., Woensdregt, M., & Raviv, L. (2024). The role of facial expressions signalling confidence or doubt in language emergence. Poster presented at the IMPRS Conference 2024, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Dona, L., Özyürek, A., Holler, J., Woensdregt, M., & Raviv, L. (2024). Communicating confidence and doubt through the face: Implications for language emergence. Poster presented at the Highlights in the Language Sciences Conference 2024, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Bosscha, S. A. M., Haagen, T. E., Koetschruyter, R. A., Dona, L., & Castro, B. Z. (2022). Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Identifying Verb-Subject Dependencies Using a Probe Model. Poster presented at the 32nd Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN 32), Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Dona, L., & Schouwstra, M. (2022). Modelling the Emergence of Linguistic Conventions for Word Order: The Roles of Semantics, Structural Priming, and Population Structure. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2022), Toronto, Canada.