The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 14-17 April 2014

Contents
Preface
Program Committee
Perspectives on EVOLANG
	The Evolution of EVOLANG
		Michael Arbib
		Cedric Boeckx
		Michael Corballis
		Bart de Boer
		Jean-Louis Dessalles
		Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
		W. Tecumseh Fitch
		James R. Hurford
		Sverker Johansson
		Simon Kirby
		Chris Knight
		Phillip Lieberman
		Heidi Lyn
		Kazuo Okanoya
		Thom Scott-Phillips
		Luc Steels
		Maggie Tallerman
Papers
	Diachronic processes in language as signaling under conflicting interests
		1. Introduction
		2. Evolutionary Game Theory
			2.1. Signaling Games
			2.2. Evolutionarily Stable Strategies
		3. Conflicting Interests
			3.1. Parametrization
			3.2. Signaling
			3.3. Stability
		4. Diachronic Processes
		5. Concluding Remarks
		References
	Syntactic development in phenotypic space
		1. On networks and language
			1.1. Introduction
			1.2. Pere Alberch’s phenotypic morphospace
			1.3. Syntactic network analyses
			1.4. Procedure
			1.5. Discussion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Finding the underpinnings: The last quarter century
		1. Arousing, the Scientific Imagination
			1.1 Pinker and Bloom: The Ripple Effect
			1.2 Porges and the Polyvagal Theory
			1.3 Schore and the transformation of psychotherapy
		2 Two Noble Domains
			2.1 Music Origins
			2.2 Modern Biosemiotics and a Reconceived Question of Consciousness
		Selected References
	Strategies for the emergence of first-order phrase structure
		1. Introduction
		2. Why do human languages have syntax?
		3. The Grouping Strategy
		4. The Sequencing Strategy
		5. The Pattern Strategy
		6. Conclusions
		References
	What were we talking about? Exchanging social models as a route to language
		1. Introduction
		2. A cognition of social relationships
		3. Sharing social relationships
		4. Conclusion
		References
	Why might SOV be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? A theoretical framework
		1. Introduction
		2. Word order phenomena as a multiconstraint engineering problem
			2.1. The diversity of word orders
			2.2. Languages lacking a dominant word order
			2.3. Word order reversions in evolution
			2.4. Alternative orders with a head at the center
			2.5. Verb last in computer prediction experiments
			2.6. The preference for head last in simple sequences and its loss incomplex sequences
		3. Final remarks
		Acknowledgements
		Appendix: Online memory cost function
		References
	Linguistic animals: Understanding language through a comparative approach
		1. Introduction
		2. Semantics
		3. Syntax
			3.1. Perceptual Syntax: Production
			3.2. Perceptual Syntax: Perception
		4. Theory of mind
		5. Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Creative compositionality from reinforcement learning in signaling games
		1. Introduction
		References
	Overlapping and synchronization in the song of the Indris (Indri indri)
		1. Introduction
		2. Materials & Methods
			2.1. Study sites and subjects
			2.2. Sampling and equipment
			2.3. Acoustic analyses
			2.4. Statistical Analyses
		3. Results
			3.1. Overlapping
			3.2. Synchronization
		4. Discussion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	A matter of perspective: Viewpoint phenomena in the evolution of grammar
		1. Introduction
		2. Viewpoint Phenomena: Subjectivity and Aspectual Framing
			2.1. Aspectual Framing
			2.2. Subjectivity and Subjectification
		3. Evolutionary Origins of Perspectival Construal Operations
		4. Conclusion
		References
	A constructionist approach to the evolution of morphological complexity
		1. Introduction
		2. Morphology in Construction Grammar
		3. The Evolution of Morphological Complexity
		4. Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Language evolved for storytelling in a super-fast evolution
		1. Introduction
		2. Language and time traveling
			2.1 Did language evolve from animal communication?
			2.2 The unique structure of language and its exclusive function
			2.3 Language is adapted to narration
			2.4 The mirror neuron system, gesture, and language
		3. The speed of evolution and the development of unique human traits
		4. Conclusion
		References
	What iconicity can and cannot do for proto-Language
		1. Introduction: Iconicity and Bootstrapping
		2. What Counts as Imagic Iconicity?
			2.1. What is Not Iconic? Ape Gestures
			2.2. Iconicity in Cross-Modal Associations
			2.3. Pantomime and Iconic Gesture
			2.4. Summary: Non-Iconic, Non-Arbitrary Signs
		3. Emergence vs. Development of Languages
		4. Conclusion and Suggestions for Experimental Work
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Did language evolve incommunicado?
		1. Introduction
		2. Arguments for non-communicative language origins
		3. Reasons why incommunicado is implausible
		4. Conclusions
		References
	Hunter-gatherer egalitarianism enabled grammar to evolve
		1.1. Hunter-gatherer social systems
		1.2. Continuity or discontinuity?
		1.3. The need for trust
		1.4. The origins of grammar
		1.5. Conclusion
		References
	Grasping compositional patterns in an artificial language by Chinese participants
		1. Introduction
		2. Methods and Materials
			2.1. Participants
			2.2. Experimental Materials
			2.3. Procedure
		3. Results
		4. Discussions, Conclusions, and Future Work
		Acknowledgements
		References
	The emergence of compound signals
		1. Introduction
		2. Compound signals: uniquely human?
		3. Prerequisites for compound signals: signs, CARC, concatenation
		4. The evolution of syntax
		5. Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Modality switch in human language evolution
		1. Introduction
		2. Biological and Cultural Influences
		3. Simulation Model
			3.1. Motivation
			3.2. The Model
			3.3. Simulations and Results
		4. Conclusion
		References
	Broadcasting to the enemy: Deception as a solution in evolution of language
		1. Introduction
		2. Peer-to-peer or broadcasting?
		3. Hypothesis
		4. Model
		5. Results
		6. Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Recursion is not language domain-specific: Interim results of are search program
		1. Introduction
		2. Is recursion language domain-specific?
		3. Is language necessary to use recursion in non-linguistic domains?
			3.1. Verbal interference studies
			3.2. Developmental studies
			3.3. Brain imaging studies
			3.4. Conclusion
		References
	On the emergence of bilingualism in a communication “ALL” taskas a result of competition between social conformism and languages implification
		1. Motivation
		2. The model
			2.1. Game interaction
			2.2. Learning rule
		3. Modeling of the ALL communication task
			3.1. Description of the ALL task
		4. Numerical experiment
		5. Conclusions and outlook
		References
	Establishing a communication system: Miscommunication drives abstraction
		References
	On the reliability of unreliable information: Gossip as cultural memory
	Homo praedicans
		1. Introduction: “We got Merge…”
		2. “Roots of Predication”
		3. “The Ontogenic Assembly Staircase”
		4. Conclusion: “…because we became caring.”
		References
	The phonatory culture hypothesis
		1. Background
		2. A Different Perspective on Language
		3. Three Necessary Conditions for Learning a Language
		4. Problems Solved by this Paradigm
		5. Predictions and Tests
		6. Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Evolution of tense and aspect
		1. Historical Background
		2. Mental Time Travel
		3. Interaction between Brain and Language
		4. Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Orofacial gestures in language evolution: The auditory feedback hypothesis
		1. The ‘visual modality’ theories of language origins
		2. The problem of modality transition
			2.1. Hypothesis: auditory feedback and the visual-to-vocal modality transition
		3. Orofacial gestures
			3.1. Facial expression in primates
			3.2. Motor theory of speech
		4. The role of auditory feedback
		5. Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Iconicity and ape gesture
		1. Introduction
		2. Iconicity in Ape Gesture
			2.1. Directive Touches
			2.2. Visible Directives
			2.3. Pantomimed Actions
		3. Alternative Theories of Ape Gestures
		4. Directions for Future Research
			4.1. Variability
			4.2. Enculturation
		5. Conclusion
		References
	Iterative vocal charades: The emergence of conventions in vocal communication
		1. Introduction
		2. Method
			2.1. Participants
			2.2. Materials
			2.3. Design and Procedure
			2.4. Analysis
		3. Results
		4. Discussion
		References
	Constructions, construal and cooperation in the evolution of language
		1. Introduction
		2. Construction Grammar and Usage-Based Approaches and the Evolution of Language
			2.1. Cognitive and Communicative Prerequisites for the Emergence of Constructions
			2.2. Sociocognitive Prerequisites for the Emergence of Constructions
		3. Evolutionary Implications: Constructions and Cooperation
		4. Conclusion
		References
	Female philopatry and egalitarianism as conditions for the emergence of intersubjectivity
		1.1. Female philopatry and prosociality
		1.2. Cooperative eyes, ‘deep social mind’ and Machiavellian intelligence
		1.3. Strategies for pair-bonding
		1.4. Ritual: song, dance and prosociality
		References
	The role of coordination in regularization
		Acknowledgements
		References
	The psychology of biological clocks: A new framework for the evolution of rhythm
		1. Timing and Synchronization
			1.1. Timed Signaling
			1.2. Synchronization as One Possible Outcome of Timing
		2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Timing and Rhythm
			2.1. Cooperation and Competition in Timed Interactions
			2.2. Function and Phylogeny of Rhythm and Entrainment
		3. A Framework for Time-dependent Signaling Strategies
		Acknowledgements
		References
	The paradox of linguistic complexity and community size
		1. Introduction
		2. Simulations
			2.1. Implementation and results
		3. Conclusion
		References
	Social interaction influences the evolution of cognitive biases for language
		1. Introduction
		2. Model definition
		3. Results
		4. Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Understanding the linguistic structure and evolution of web search queries
		1. Introduction
		2. Datasets
		3. Perplexity and Entropy of Query Language Models
		4. Complex Network Analysis of Web Search Queries
		5. Word Position Analysis for Queries
		6. Conclusions and Future Work
		References
	The role of iconicity in the evolution of linguistic structure
		References
	Linearisation of adjectives: The grammatical face of perceptual/conceptual biases?
		1. Background on adjectival ‘hierarchies’
		2. Experiments
			2.1. Experiment 1: Reaction times in a visual search paradigm
			2.2. Further steps: Implicit categorisation task
		3. Summary
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Supporting evidence for language polygenesis from Neanderthal-Human interbreeding
		1. Introduction
			1.1. Background Information
			1.2. Relationship between Homo sapiens and other Homo species
		2. Language Capacity of Neanderthals
			2.1. Anatomical evidence
			2.2. Genetic evidence
			2.3. Archaeological evidence
				2.3.1. Stone tool
				2.3.2. Artwork
			2.4. Interim summary
		3. Interaction between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
		4. Implications for Language Evolution
		References
	Language emergence in the laboratory: A method suitable to dynamical systems analysis
		1. Introduction
			1.1. Task overview
		2. Method: Integer Summing Game with Detailed Feedback (ISGDF)
		3. Result 1: Clustering
		4. Result 2: Persistence of idiosyncratic stabilities
		5. Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Is the syntax rubicon more of a mirage?
		1. Minimalist views of language evolution
		2. ‘Conceptual atoms of the lexicon’
		3. Syntactic displacement and externalization of language
		References
	Symbol extension and meaning generation in cultural evolution for displaced communication
		1. Introduction
			1.1. Displacement of Human Language
			1.2. Previous Results
		2. Experiment
			2.1. Experimental Framework for Displaced Communication
			2.2. Experimental Setting
			2.3. Two Types of Drawing Tasks
		3. Results
		4. Discussion: Cultural Evolution of Symbol Systems
		5. Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Fitness landscapes in cultural language evolution: A case study on German definite articles
		1. Introduction
			1.1. Linguistic Selectionism and Fitness Landscapes
			1.2. A Linguistic Puzzle
		2. Experimental Set-Up
			2.1. Processes that Create Variation
			2.2. Linguistic Fitness
		3. Experimental Results
		4. Discussion and Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Social word learning strategies in different cultures
		References
	The mental synthesis theory: The dual origin of human language
		1. The neurological mechanism of mental synthesis
		2. The dual origin of human language
		3. A wish list of experiments
		References
	Cognitive factors motivating the evolution of word meanings: Evidence from corpora, behavioral data and encyclopedic network structure
		1. Semantic Change
		2. Results
			2.1. Mental associations
			2.2. Encyclopedic associations
			2.3. Frequency and cognitive accessibility
			2.4. Textual diversity
		3. Discussion
		References
	The magic number 4: Evolutionary pressures on semantic frame structure
		1. Introduction
		2. Evolutionary pressures on semantic frame structure
		3. Complexity for different classes of transductions
		4. Discussion and conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		References
Abstracts
	Rule learning in humans and animals
	The Putty-nosed monkey ‘Pyow-Hack’ sequence: Compositional or an idiomatic expression?
		1. Introduction
		2. The Pyow-Hack sequence
		3. Playback experiments
		References
	Primate pragmatics: Putty-nosed monkeys use contextual information to disambiguate the cause of alarm calls
		1. Introduction
		2. Male putty-nosed monkey loud calls
		3. Natural observations and playback experiments
	The evolution of human cognitive systems: Comparative approaches to language and music
		References
	Sociocultural determiners of linguistic complexity
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Speaking of language and evolution
		References
	Language disorders as windows on language evolution
		References
	Zipf’s law across languages of the world: Towards a quantitative measure of lexical diversity
		References
	Informational structure of an emerging communication system is shaped by its environment
		References
	Spirals in language evolution
		References
	Sound symbolism and the origins of language
		1. Introduction
		References
	The origins of combinatorial communication
		References
	A proposal concerning the gene network that regulates the shape of the language-ready brain
		1. Globularity as the key autapomorphy
		2. What dos Globularity do?
		3. Molecular basis
		References
	Sign-theory and the origin of language
		References
	Social origins of rhythm? Synchrony and temporal regularity in human vocalization
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Bridging the gap: From bodily mimesis to speech
		References
	The emergence of combinatoriality in the cultural transmission of pop songs in a children’s gameshow
		Acknowledgements
		References
	The cumulative cultural evolution of category structure in an open-ended meaning space
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Do talk to strangers: Maternal and non-maternal interaction in the transmission of primate gesture
		References
	The evolution of polysemy in child language
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Zebra finches can learn to recognize affixations
		References
	Vocal communication in Gibbons
		References
	The dissolution of language & speech following brain damage
		References
	Frequency and stability of linguistic variants
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Biological adaptation to cultural traits
		1. Model
		2. Results
		3. Discussion
		References
	Language and speech are old: A review of the evidence and consequences for modern linguistic diversity
		References
	The role of the human political singularity in the emergence of language
		References
	Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items
		1. Introduction, data and methods
		2. Results and discussion
		References
	Words as unmotivated cues
		References
	Representations are selected: They don’t just drift
		1. Data, Models and Bayes’ Factors
		2. Conclusion
		References
	The cumulative cultural evolution of an instruction language
		References
	Birds tutored with their own developing song produce wildtype-like song as adults
		References
	Regularization in language evolution: On the joint contribution of domain-specific biases and domain-general frequency learning
		References
	The effect of pitch enhancement on spoken language acquisition
	Language from gesture? Emergent transitivity marking in Nicaraguan Sign Language
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Four wrong ideas in evolutionary linguistics
		References
	Artificial grammar learning in infants, adults, and songbirds: What is shared, what is learned?
		References
	A revival of the homo loquens as a builder of labeled structures
		References
	Language development in children with laryngeal abnormalities identifies prerequisites for verbal protolanguage
		References
	Multimodal communication in wild chimpanzees
		1.1. Introduction
		1.2. Method
		1.3. Findings
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Comparative method for determining lexical stress in nonsense words
		1. Goals
		2. Methodology
		3. Results
		4. Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Sound symbolism and arbitrary sound-meaning relationships in language
		References
	Tracing language primitives: Phonosemantic realization of fundamental oppositional pairs
		References
	The origins of regularity in language: Why coordination matters
		References
	Efficient communication and language evolution
		References
	Evolutionary paths to compositional language
		References
	Systems emerge: The cultural evolution of interdependents equential behaviours in the lab
		References
	Formant tuning technique in vocalizations of non-human primates
		References
	Bow-and-arrow technology: Mapping human cognition and perhaps language evolution
		References
	Patterns of variation in language and tool use: An ethnographic and comparative approach
		References
	From grasping to grooming to gossip
		References
	A multimodal perspective on ape communication
		References
	Social structure from language games
		References
		Acknowledgements
	Getting communication started: The superiority of gesture over non-linguistic vocalization
		References
	The effect of size of articulation space on the emergence of combinatorial structure
		References
	Comparative psychology and the evolution of language: Methodology matters
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Pronomial characteristics of an evolved language: Is brevity an evolutionary advantage?
		References
	Culture vs. biology: Adversarial coevolution during the evolution of the lexicon
		References
	From hand to mouth: Fine precision grip during mutual grooming elicited wide lip movements in wild Fongoli chimpanzees
		References
	The nature of language in interaction
		1. Abstract
			1.1. Introduction
			1.2. Methods
			1.3. Analysis
		References
	Dogs need embodied directions: Children but not dogs possess skills needed for communicating with absent interlocutors
		1. Dogs need embodied directions
		2. Results
		References
	Is Gricean communication necessarily cooperative?
		1. Is Gricean communication necessarily cooperative?
		References
	What Dwight L. Bolinger probably would have contributed to evolutionary linguistics
		References
	Motivated vs. conventional systematicity: Implications for language learning and the structure of the lexicon
		1. Motivated vs. Conventional Systematicity
			1.1. Systematicity and Language Learning
			1.2. Sound Symbolism and Motivated Systematicity
			1.3. Motivated vs. Conventional Systematicity
		References
	The role of vocal learning in the acoustic communication of the Egyptian fruit bat
		1. Introduction
		2. Methods
		3. Results
		4. Discussion
		References
	Detecting differences between the languages of Neandertals and modern humans
		References
	The effect of iconicity on the emergence of combinatorial structure: An experimental study
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Accelerated regions and the language faculty
		References
	Chimpanzee food grunts are directed at specific individuals: Precursors for triadic communication?
		References
	About time: Semantic structure in emerging language
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Handicaps are unnecessary for human communication
		References
	The origins of word meaning
		References
	Intentionality in the production of chimpanzee alarm calls
		References
	The cognitive underpinnings of metaphor as the driving force of language evolution
		References
	Prosodic cue weighting by zebra finches
		References
	Minimal requirements for the emergence of learned signalling
		References
	Incremental recruitment language — A formalism for evolutionary semantics
		References
	Momentum-based language change: A non-adaptive model of directional selection
		References
	Symbolisation and cognition
		References
	The evolutionary relations between music and language: A cross-musical idiom approach from the comparative perspective of language and music
		References
	Organization of language: Evaluation of modularity theories
		References
	Culture: Copying, compression and conventionality
		References
	Model fitting and prediction for language evolution
		References
	The effect of communication on category structure
		References
	On the relations between articulatory gestures and manual grasping
		1. Introduction
		2. Methods
		3. Results
			3.1. Experiment 1
			3.2. Experiment 2
		4. Discussion
		References
	Learning speech-like signals from a skewed continuous distribution
		References
	Development of language through shared intentionality and categorization
		References
	Iterated learning of sound systems and the emergence of tone categories
		References
	Selection in the lexicon
		References
	Frequency-dependent bias affects the spread of human communication systems
		1. Background & Aim
		2. Experiment
		3. Simulations
		4. Conclusion
		References
	Adaptive strategies in the origins of semantic categories
		References
	The influence of music on the perception of emotions in voice samples: Evolutionary implications
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Semantic crowding triggers systematically structured sign systems
		1. Non-Compositional Systematicity
		2. Experimenting with a Crowded Semantic Space
		3. Conclusion
		References
	Speech is characterized by robustness, neutrality and evolvability
		References
	Experimentally investigating the role of context in the structuring of the linguistic system over cultural evolution
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	Neural networks, algebraic rules & human uniqueness
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	Modelling language competition without prestige
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	Requirements on scenarios for the evolution of language and cognition
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