Event
Animal Communication and Human Language Workshop
Friday, September 22, 2017
5:00 p.m.
http://bbiworkshop.umd.edu/
This is a three day conference that will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park from September 22-24, 2017
What can animal communication teach us about human language?
The conference will be of interest to a broad community including linguists, biologists, psychologists, zoologists, audiologists, hearing scientists, behaviorists, artificial language theorists, engineers, and neuroscientists.
Invited Speakers:
Robert Berwick – MIT
Dorothy Cheney – University of Pennsylvania
Bob Dooling – University of Maryland
Tecumseh Fitch – University of Vienna
Tim Gentner – University of California, San Diego
Erich Jarvis – Rockefeller University
Richard Mooney – Duke University
Andreas Nieder – University of Tubingen
Chris Petkov - University of Newcastle
David Poeppel – NYU and Max Planck Institute
Robert Seyfarth – University of Pennsylvania
Katie Slocombe – University of York
Peter Tyack – University of St. Andrews
Sandy Waxman - Northwestern University
Stephanie White – University of California, Los Angeles
Klaus Zuberbuhler – University of St Andrews
Workshop organizers:
Jonathan Fritz - Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Bill Idsardi – Linguistics, University of Maryland
Jerry Wilkinson - Biology, University of Maryland
