Readers 读者
Report of The 7th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics
第七屆演化語言學國際研討會會議報告
Chen Fei 陳飛; Peng Gang 彭剛
Abstract 摘要
The 7th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-7)* took place in Nankai University (NKU), June 12-14, 2015. Before the main conference, there were a series of lectures and tutorials on June 10-11 around the foundational issues of evolutionary linguistics and its related fields, such as brain imaging studies, human genetic research, complex system research, experimental linguistics and computational modeling. The main conference was jointly organized by Institute of Linguistics and School of Literature of Nankai University. Over 96 registrants, from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Austria, Estonia, Czech Republic, Singapore, and U.S.A. attended and participated in the three day conference. There were seven keynote speeches, 50 oral presentations and 20 poster presentations featuring six major themes: language evolution at the macro-, meso- and microscopic scales, genetic and archaeological evidence for language evolution, language and the brain, diachronic and synchronic study of language, the origins of Chinese, and other language evolution related research (such as child language acquisition and pathological linguistics). Both English and Chinese were working languages of the conference.