Lunch Talks + HDR Clément François
B011 LPL 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, FranceThe Rise and Fall of the Franconian Tone
B011 LPL 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, FranceLimburgish is spoken in the north-western 12% of the area in which the Franconian tone is spoken, where Cologne was the medieval centre of prestige. It was there, after the beginning of the construction of the cathedral in 1248, that a remarkable lexical tone contrast arose from the contact between the hundreds of highly qualified […]
David Poeppel
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceRevisiting the origins of meaning
Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, MarseilleKlaus Zuberbuhler The three core properties of language – meaning, syntax and social interaction - have received considerable comparative research attention in recent years, driven by a desire to advance theories of language evolution. Somewhat surprisingly, progress on the origins of meaning has been least remarkable, after the initial pioneering discoveries of referential signals […]
Multimodality in Social Interactions 2.0
FRUMAM 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France2-day workshop on various theoretical and methodological problems confronted in the field of multimodal communication and social interactions in humans and non-humans.