Program

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SUNDAY 15

SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 16 SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER

WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER

THURSDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
    Background lectures

9:00 – 10:00

 

Luc Steels

Creativity in Cultural Language Evolution

Gunther Knoblich 

Cognitive Mechanisms of Joint Action

Kazuo Okanoya

Bird song as a musical protolanguage

Eva Jablonka

Evolution in Four Dimensions

Eörs Szathmáry

Evolution in the Brain and what it might entail

10:00 – 11:00

 

Francois Pachet

Style Manipulation as a Creative Device 

Vyv Evans

Linguistically Mediated Meaning Construction

Freek Van de Velde

How Syntactic Structure Emerged in Indo-European Languages

Martin Hilpert

Constructional Change

PRAISE consortium
 

Stimulating musical creativity through on-line tutoring. 

    Coffee Break
   

 Strategies for language grounding

Grounded Cognitive Semantics

Construction Grammar

Case studies in Language Grounding

Concluding Session

11:30-12:15

 

Pieter Wellens

Lexical Strategies for Language Games

Danica Kragic

The Interplay between perception and action 

Mirjam Fried

Construction Grammar and Language Change

Katrien Beuls, Emilia Garcia and Luc Steels

Emergence of Syntax


Results of technical ateliers

12:15-13:00

 

Vittorio Loreto

The dynamics of correlated novelties

Michael Spranger

Computational Embodied Semantics on Real Robots

Remi van Trijp

Computational Construction Grammar

Simon Pauw and  Remi van Trijp

Evolution of Grammar

Concluding Panel: Creativity in Music and Language
  Lunch
   

Technical Ateliers

14:30-17:30


Arrival and preparation.
Software installation
Strategies in Language Games Grounded Compositional Semantics Computational construction grammar Focus groups in language evolution
    Coffee Break

Jean-François Perrot

Synthesis of Skaldic Verse : a Challenge for Flow Machines?

Poster Session

Coffee Break

   

Evening Lecture

18:00-19:00

Opening and Cocktail

Jerome Lewis

Why the Bayaka Sing So Much?

Mark d'Inverno

How Do Jazz Musicians Manage to Play Together?

Bill Croft

A Roadmap for Evolutionary Linguistics

  Dinner

20.00-22.00

 

Artistic Ateliers

Performance of Artistic Ateliers