Videos of (most of) the plenary lectures from the conference are now available to view online at the following address:
http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
Plenary lectures of EvoLang9 were given by the following researchers:
- Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Three Models (and a Half) for the Description of Language Evolution - Minoru Asada
Towards Language Acquisition by Cognitive Developmental Robotics - Cedric Boeckx
Homo Combinans - Simon Kirby
Why Language Has Structure: New Evidence from Studying Cultural Evolution in the Lab and What It Means for Biological Evolution - Jenny Saffran
Out of the Brains of Babes: Domain-general Learning Mechanisms and Domain-specific Systems - Simon Fisher
Molecular Windows into Speech and Language - Russell Gray
The Evolution of Language Without Miracles - Rafael Núñez
The Irreducible Semantic Communicative Drive - Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Outgroup: The Study of Chimpanzees to Know the Human Mind - Tom Griffiths
Neutral Models for Language Evolution - Terrence Deacon
Neither Nature nor Nurture: Coevolution, Devolution, and Universality of Language
Enjoy yourself with the videos! Special thanks to the EvoLang9 organization committee for their very nice work!