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