Report of the 6th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Autor: Jiang Juan, Gao Tianjun
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Chinese Linguistics. 43:256-264
ISSN: 2411-3484
DOI: 10.1353/jcl.2015.0009
Popis: The 6th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL 6), jointly organized by Overseas Education College of Xiamen University and the Anthropological Society of China, was held in Xiang’an campus of Xiamen University, on November 22-23, 2014. A total of 45 scholars from China, U.S. and Estonia attended the conference. There were 7 keynote speeches, 22 oral presentations and 8 poster presentations featuring five major themes: language as a complex adaptive system; language and the brain; vertical and horizontal transmission of languages; language and population evolution in China; the ancestry of the Chinese Language.
Databáze: OpenAIRE