The international Conference EvoLang9
took place from 13. to 16. March 2012. This conference is held
every two years and was this time in Kyoto, Japan. The main session
included eleven lectures of plenary speakers, five talks of invited
speakers, several talks and poster presentations of the conference
participants. In adittion to this main session, there was five
workshops on the first day. EvoLang9 provided
a very wide view of language evolution by considering topics from
variable research areas of cognitive science. Mainly discussed
topics were:

• Biological evolution vs. Cultural
  evolution
• Different models on language
  evolution: FLN vs. Protolanguages
• Neuroscientific evidences on language
  evolution
• Tool use and language
  evolution
• Comparative research: species
  (human, primate and bird) and domains (language, music and visual
  modalities)
• Language changes

Discussions were carried both from theoretical and
empirical perspectives, so that they had highly interdisciplinary
characters. In this conference, one noticed that the dialogue
between several approaches would be a key development of the
current research on language evolution. Next EvoLang10 will be held
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Homepage of EvoLang9: Here you can get detailed information about
the previous conference!

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