12 Jul
1995
12 Jul
'95
2:52 p.m.
11th Annual Meeting
of the
Language Origins Society
July 28 - August 1, 1995
Pecs, Hungary
PROGRAM
July 28:
09.30 - 10.30: Registration
10.30: Opening
10.45 - 12.00: Keynote lecture: Vilmos Csanyi (Hungary): Conceptual
thoughts before language: an ethological analysis of the early
period of human evolution.
12.30: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Duane Quiatt and Richard G. Milo (USA):
Glottogenesis and anatomically modern Homo sapiens: the argument
for cultural selection.
14.45 - 15.30: Zsolt Sovari (Hungary): Theoretical considerations
on the adaptivity of animal communication systems.
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Esteban Rivas (The Netherlands): A current review of
language research with great apes.
16.45 - 17.30: Maria Ujhelyi and Paul Buk (Hungary): Some thoughts
about the origins of grammar.
18.30: Reception
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July 29:
09.00 - 09.45: Robin Allott (England): The Pinker Language
Instinct: Surely some mistakes?
09.45 - 10.30: Jozsef Andor (Hungary): On the relevance of the
language instinct in a lexical perspective.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Andras Bocz (Hungary): Parameters and/or
Constraints: on the nature of linguistic knowledge.
11.45 - 12.30: Christer Johansson (Sweden): Evolution of language
structure and learnability.
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Sightseeing walk of Pecs
18.00: Visit to a champaign cellar with champaign tasting
July 30: Excursion day:
An all-day excursion in a coach to famous sights and places around
Pecs, including lunch and also a dinner with wine tasting in a wine
cellar.
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July 31:
09.00 - 09.45: Bernard Bichakjian (The Netherlands): Language
evolution and lateralization.
09.45 - 10.30: Jurgen Tesak (Germany): Language breakdown in adults
and language origins.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Walburga von Raffler-Engel (USA): A different
approach to foetal communication: From response to request.
11.45 - 12.30: Peter Molnar (Hungary): The first dialogue:
Unexpected inborn capacities might help in explaining language
origins.
13.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Leonard Rolfe (England): Articulations and the
origin of speech.
14.45 - 15.30: Susan Duncan (The Netherlands): Rhythm and human
language.
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Andras Sebestyen Szollosy (Hungary): Approach to the
origin of language.
17.00: Business Meeting
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August 1:
09.00 - 09.45: Achim Oberst (Canada): Martin Heidegger on the
origin of language in Being and Time.
09.45 - 10.30: Gabor Gyori (Hungary): The evolution of language and
languages: a study of origins.
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45: Eric de Grolier (France): Some methodological
problems in linguistic taxonomy and reconstructions.
11.45 - 12.30: Gabor Takacs (Hungary): The Egyptian anatomical
lexicon in an Afroasiatic pespective: New correspondences.
13.00: Lunch
14.00 - 14.45: Robert Davy Green (Tahiti, French Polynesia): The
Indo-European tribal or ethnic name.
14.45 - 15.30: Vaclav Blazek (Czech Republic): Current progress in
a global classification of the world's languages.
15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 - 16.45: Iren Hegedus (Hungary): The role of the Nostratic
hypothesis in paleolinguistic research.
16.45 - 17.30: Gabor Takacs (Hungary): Egyptian material in the
Nostratic lexicon: Addenda et corrigenda.
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