The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG 10)

Hardcover, xx + 570 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Issued without a dust jacket. Weight 970g. -- This volume comprises refereed papers & abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language EVOLANGX 2014. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting brings together researchers from many subject areas, including anthropology, archaeology, biology, cognitive science, computer science, genetics, linguistics, neuroscience, palaeontology, primatology and psychology. - Contents: Perspectives on EVOLANG: Evolution; Papers: - Diachronic processes in language as signaling under conflicting interests; Syntactic development in phenotypic space; Finding the underpinnings: last quarter century; Strategies for the emergence of first-order phrase structure; What were we talking about? Exchanging social models as a route to language; Why might SOV be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? A theoretical framework; Linguistic animals: Understanding language through a comparative approach; Creative compositionality from reinforcement learning in signaling games; Overlapping & synchronization in the song of Indris (Indri indri); Matter of perspective: Viewpoint phenomena in evolution of grammar; Constructionist approach to the evolution of morphological complexity; Language evolved for storytelling in a super-fast evolution; What iconicity can & cannot do for proto-Language; Did language evolve incommunicado?; Hunter-gatherer egalitarianism enabled grammar to evolve; Grasping compositional patterns in an artificial language by Chinese participants; Emergence of compound signals; Modality switch in human language evolution; Broadcasting to the enemy: Deception as a solution in evolution of language; Recursion is not language domain-specific: Interim results of a research program; On the emergence of bilingualism in a communication "ALL" task as a result of competition between social conformism & language simplification; Establishing a communication system: Miscommunication drives abstraction; On reliability of unreliable information: Gossip as cultural memory; Homo praedicans; Phonatory culture hypothesis; Evolution of tense & aspect; Orofacial gestures in language evolution: Auditory feedback hypothesis; Iconicity & ape gesture; Iterative vocal charades: Emergence of conventions in vocal communication; Constructions, construal & cooperation in the evolution of language; Female philopatry & egalitarianism as conditions for the emergence of intersubjectivity; Role of coordination in regularization; Psychology of biological clocks: A new framework for the evolution of rhythm; Paradox of linguistic complexity & community size; Social interaction influences the evolution of cognitive biases for language; Understanding linguistic structure & evolution of web search queries; Role of iconicity in evolution of linguistic structure; Linearisation of adjectives: Grammatical face of perceptual/conceptual biases?; Supporting evidence for language polygenesis from Neanderthal-Human interbreeding; Language emergence in the laboratory: A method suitable to dynamical systems analysis; Is the syntax rubicon more of a mirage?; Symbol extension & meaning generation in cultural evolution for displaced communication; Fitness landscapes in cultural language evolution: A case study on German definite articles; Social word learning strategies in different cultures; Mental synthesis theory: Dual origin of human language; Cognitive factors motivating the evolution of word meanings: Evidence from corpora, behavioral data & encyclopedic network structure; Magic number 4: Evolutionary pressures on semantic frame structure; -- 98 Abstracts (pp 369-566, each 2 pages long, English language).