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Research Seminar - June 28, 2000

Seminar Announcement


Title: Lecture 4: Beyond the Mirror: Biology and History
Speaker: Professor Michael Arbib

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Date: Wednesday 28th June, 2000
Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1.24


Abstract

This lecture will integrate the material in the earlier lectures, first arguing that biological evolution equipped early Homo sapiens with a brain that was "language ready" but did not itself "have" language. We will then analyze data on the possible paths of cultural/historical language change over the last 5,000 to 20,000 years to offer an integrated view of the biological and historical components of the emergence of the modern human capacity for language.

Arbib, M.A., 2000, The Mirror System, Imitation, and the Evolution of Language, in Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, (Chrystopher Nehaniv and Kerstin Dautenhahn, Editors), The MIT Press, to appear.
Dixon, R.M.W., 1997, The Rise and Fall of Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lass, R., 1997, Historical Linguistics and Language Change, (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 81), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Noble, W., and Davidson, I., 1996, Human Evolution, Language and Mind: A Psychological and Archaeological Inquiry
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