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Wednesday 11 Oct
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09.00
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Welcome
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09.30
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Brigitte Pakendorf
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Keynote: Size does matter: Demography as a trigger of language change
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10.30
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Coffee/tea break
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11.00
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Paul Heggarty
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The non-uniformity of human history — and its impact on the triggers and pace of language change pdf
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11.30
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Alexandra Simonenko, Benoît Crabbé, Sophie Prévost
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Agreement syncretisation as a trigger of null subjects decline in Medieval French pdf
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12.00
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Lunch
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13.30
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Monica Tamariz
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Keynote: What can cultural evolutionary theory tell us about the mechanisms of language change?
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14.30
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Ilja A. Seržant
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Evolution of bound person indexes: the dynamic-typology approach pdf
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15.00
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Coffee/tea break
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15.30
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Panel
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The hardest problems
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16.00
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17.00
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Reception
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Thursday 12 Oct
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09.00
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Michael C. Gavin
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Keynote: Why are there so many languages in some places, but so few in others?
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10.00
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Uriel Cohen Priva
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Relative low informativity licenses lenition pdf
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10.30
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Henri Kauhanen, George Walkden
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Parsing advantage as the determinant of change and stability? Some problems of the variational model of language change pdf
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11.00
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Coffee/tea break
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11.30
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Anna Jon-And
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Learnability as an explanation of language change in contact settings pdf
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12.00
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Arturs Semenuks, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis
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Does morphological simplification increase learnability? pdf
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12.30
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Lunch
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14.00
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Olivier Morin
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Keynote: How do cognitive biases shape cultural changes?
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15.00
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Damián Blasi
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The emergence of creole languages
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15.30
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Coffee/tea break
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16.00
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Limor Raviv
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The role of community size in the emergence of linguistic structure pdf
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16.30
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Peeter Tinits, Stefan Hartmann
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The grammar of knowledge: Investigating the emergence of conventions in the evolution of Wikipedia pdf
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Friday 13 Oct
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09.00
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Sarah Thomason
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Keynote: Can deliberate language changes cause problems for quantitative phylogenetic methods?
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10.00
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Amel Alouache, Imene Bilouk
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Adaptation of English Words in the Algerian Dialect pdf
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10.30
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Mary Walworth
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It does exist! Identifying actuation of language change pdf
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11.00
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Coffee/tea break
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11.30
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Dubi Nanda Dhakal
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Language changes in Baram pdf
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12.00
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Timo B. Roettger, Martine Grice
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The tune drives the text – how intonation drives vowel emergence pdf
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12.30
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Lunch
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14.00
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Márton Sóskuthy
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Keynote: Internal factors and the actuation of sound change
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15.00
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Cormac Anderson, Geoffrey Schwartz
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Prosody and the punctuated evolution of phonological systems pdf
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15.30
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Coffee/tea break
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16.00
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Rikker Dockum
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Tone system diversification: data and trends from dialect surveys of Thailand
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16.30
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Farewell
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