Readers 读者
Report of The 5th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics
第五届演化语言学国际研讨会会议报告
Guo Li 李果; Quansheng Xia 夏全胜
Abstract 摘要
The 5th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-5) took place in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), August 17-19, 2013. The conference was jointly organized by CUHK Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre, Faculty of Arts, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, and the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK). A total of 77 scholars from China, France, Korea, Japan, Singapore and the U.S. attended the conference. There were 6 keynote speeches, 40 oral presentations and 13 poster presentations featuring four major themes: language and population evolution, language as a complex adaptive system, language and the brain, and diachronic and synchronic study of language. Both English and Chinese were working languages of the conference. (Most materials of CIEL-5 are available on the following website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/ciel5/en_index.html)
第五届演化语言学国际研讨会(CIEL-5)于2013年8月17日至8月19日在香港中文大学召开。来自中国、美国、法国、日本、韩国、新加坡的36所大学和研究机构的77位专家学者参加了此次会议。
本次会议集中讨论的主题包括：语言作为一个复杂适应系统、语言与人类进化、语言的历时与共时研究、语言与大脑。会议共有6个主题报告，40个口头报告和13个海报展示。
会议的6个主题报告是（按发言顺序）：
1. “Some Issues in Language Evolution”（语言演化的若干问题）
William S-Y. Wang 王士元,
香港中文大学;
2. “Language Evolution: Current Controversies and the
Challenges of Multi-disciplinary Research”(语言演化：来自多学科研究的争议和挑战)
Michael A. Arbib,
美国南加州大学;
3. “The Neurobiology of Speech and Reading”（言语和阅读的神经生物学基础）
Kenneth R. Pugh,
美国耶鲁大学哈斯金实验室;
4. “Brain Mechanisms of Reading: Universal or Culture-specific”（阅读的脑神经机制: 是普遍的还是由文化决定的）
谭力海,
香港大学;
5. “Syntactico-semantic Change in Chinese: Processes of Analogy, Reanalysis, External Borrowing”(汉语中的句法语义演变: 类推、重新分析和外借过程)
Alain Peyraube,
法国国家科学研究中心;
6. “Nouns and Verbs: Evolution of Grammatical Forms”（名词和动词：语法形式的演变）
沈家煊,
中国社会科学院语言研究所。
会议有关资料可在 http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/ciel5/en_index.html 下载。
第六届演化语言学会议将于2014年在厦门大学召开。