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Report: The 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics
(August 8-10, 2016), Bloomington, Indiana (USA)
Reported by Thomas P. Schoenemann; Peng Gang 彭刚; Robert Port
Abstract 摘要
The International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics held its 8th annual meeting (CIEL8) at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, August 8-10, 2016. It was the first meeting in this series to be held outside of China. The conference was sponsored by many units on campus, including the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, The College of Arts and Sciences, the Indiana University Ostrom Workshop, the Cognitive Science Program, the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Linguistics, and Anthropology, the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, the East Asian Studies Center, the Australian National University-Indiana University Pan Asia Institute, and the Chinese Flagship Program. In addition, the Stone Age Institute (http://www.stoneageinstitute.org) hosted a beautiful dinner/reception, as well as the closing banquet on the last night. The organizing committee chair was Prof. Thomas Schoenemann, Department of Anthropology at Indiana. A total of 92 papers were submitted from researchers all over the world, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia, Austria, France, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A, of which 53 were accepted for oral presentation and 1 for poster presentation. There were 7 Keynote talks. Papers were presented in both English (37 papers) and in Chinese (17 papers).
Journal of Chinese Linguistics vol.45, no.1 (June 2017): 238-247
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