CARTA: How Language Evolves

This symposium addresses the question of how human language came to have the kind of structure it has, focusing on three sources of evidence: 1) ways languages get new structure not present in the language of the previous generation(s) of speakers or signers; 2) what contrasts between new and mature languages reveal about how language evolves; and 3) neuroscientific investigations of functional specialization for language in the human brain and its dependence on the linguistic input the language learner gets during cognitive development.

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Programs

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Rachel Mayberry: How the Environment Shapes Language in the Brain (7/4/2016)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: David Perlmutter: Combinatoriality within the Word: Sign Language Evidence (7/6/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Language in The Brain (4/27/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Welcome and Introduction (4/24/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Edward Chang: Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production (4/24/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Wrap-Up, Question and Answer, Closing Remarks (4/24/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Opening Remarks (4/24/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Evelina Fedorenko: Specialization for Language in the Human Brain (4/24/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Contrasts Between New and Mature Languages (4/20/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Mark Aronoff: Co-emergence of Meaning and Structure in a New Language (4/17/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: How Languages Get New Structure (4/13/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ray Jackendoff: What Can You Say without Syntax? (4/9/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Simon Kirby: Language Evolution in the Lab: The Emergence of Design Features (4/3/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Carmel O’Shannessy: How Languages Get New Structure (4/3/2015)

CARTA: How Language Evolves: Ann Senghas: Rethinking Recapitulation: Sources of Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language (4/3/2015)


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