Here is the conference program; note that all talks will be in 103 OXLEY HALL (1712 Neil Avenue), on the OSU campus:
Sunday, February 18, 2018
9:30-10:00 Coffee and doughnuts
10:00-11:00 Keynote 1 – Rebecca Morley: Locality and predictivity
11:00-11:30 Syed-Amad Hussain, Micha Elsner and Amanda Miller: Lexical networks in !Xung and Ju
11:30-12:00 Jeff Parker, Robert Reynolds and Andrea D. Sims: The role of language-specific network properties in shaping inflectional irregularity
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Keynote 2 – Morten Christiansen: Language evolution through the bottleneck: From milliseconds to Millennia
2:30-3:00 Ryan Lepic: Chunking in American Sign Language
3:00-3:30 Ryan King and Natasha Abner: Representation of event structure in the manual modality: Evidence for a universal mapping bias
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:30 Betsy Pillion and Jason Riggle: Paralinguistic clicks may be universal
4:30-5:30 Keynote 3 – Juliette Blevins: Phonological sonority scales as emergent properties of grammar
5:30-6:30 Reception
Monday, February 19, 2018
9:30-10:00 Coffee and doughnuts
10:00-11:00 Keynote 4 – Elliott Moreton and Jeff Mielke: Channel bias, inductive bias, and phonological typology (I)
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Keynote 5 – Jeff Mielke and Elliott Moreton: Channel bias, inductive bias, and phonological typology (II)
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:15 Charlie O’Hara: Soft typology of coda place of articulation distributions requires synchronic constraints
2:15-2:45 William Carter: Preferential attachment in the emergence of phonological grammars
2:45-3:15 Klaas Seinhorst: Phonological conspiracies: independent causes of regularisation in sound systems
3:15-3:45 Yiyun Zhao: Synonyms are lost during cultural transmission without an explicit bias against synonyms
3:45-4:15 Break
4:15-4:45 Coral Hughto: Emergent avoidance of cumulativity and variability in phonological typology
4:45-5:15 Savithry Namboodiripad: Learning and use in multilingual contexts as a partial contributor to linguistic universals
5:15-5:45 Aaron Golish and Anna Patterson: Evolving task-specific languages: A unique opportunity for cross-disciplinary linguistic research and language creation