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Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

Program

Day 1 - Thursday 13 March

Time Title, click for abstract (tba)
Authors, Presenter
09:15-09:30 Welcome
09:30-10:45

Plenary 1: Title tba

Dan Dediu

10:45-11:30 ---   Coffee Break   ---
11:30-12:00

The comparative method cannot tell us how languages evolve
Steven Moran, Tiena Danner 

12:00-12:30

Traditional ODE models of language change driven by individual-level interactions are often not accurate, but we can still learn something from them
Andreas Baumann 

12:30-14:00 ---   Lunch Break   ---
14:00-14:30

Agent-based simulations as process models of linguistic dynamics
Frederik Hartmann

14:30-15:00

Evolutionary dynamics of maximal syllable complexity reveal lineage-specific trends

Laura C. Dees, Shelece M. Easterday, Bathasar Bickel, Paul Widmer, Chundra A. Cathcart

15:00-15:30

Modeling language history as a graph: an exploratory paper

Florian Wandl, Julia Ulrich

 

15:30-16:15 --- Coffee Break ---
16:15-16:45

Uncovering variation in the reality of morphosyntactic features in Africa: A Bayesian approach

Miri Mertner

16:45-17:15

Writing does not impact the evolutionary dynamics of syntax
Carlo Y. Meloni, Chundra A. Cathcart, Jessica K. Ivani, Taras Zakharko, Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel

18:00 ---   Conference Dinner (for authors)   ---

 

Day 2 - Friday, 14 March

Time Title
Authors, Presenter
10:00-10:30 Concept embeddings: Applying graph embedding techniques to colexification networks
Arne Rubehn
10:30-11:00

Modeling the dynamics of societal multilingualism in the MULTILING-HIST project

Amy Anderson, Bartłomiej Chromik, Joanna Maryniak

11:00-11:45 ---   Coffee Break   ---
11:45-12:15 Opening the garden: Modelling variation between South Slavic redactions of Church Slavonic and early vernacular-based Balkan Slavic literature
Barbara Sonnenhauser, Ivan Šimko
12:15-12:45 Less is poor. When could the reducing effect lead to chaos?
Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde
12:45-14:00 ---   Lunch Break  ---
14:00-14:30

Population genetics as a window on macro-evolutionary effects of contact and isolation on language structure

Anna Graff, Erik Ringen, Kentaro Shimizu, Chiara Barbieri, Balthasar Bickel

14:30-15:00

The impact of morphology-external factors on Germanic preterite regularization: converging evidence from historical language data, population size and agent-based simulations

Dirk Pijpops, Isabeau De Smet, Freek Van de Velde

15:00-15:30

Macro- and micro-approaches to language and linguistic evolution

Balthasar Bickel

15:30-16:15 ---   Coffee Break   ---
16:15-17:30

Plenary 2: Title TBA

Henri Kauhanen

17:30-18:15 Round table discussion on major workshop themes; closing