The book of abstracts can be dowloaded here.


08:00 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:30 Main conference

09:30 - 09:45 Opening remarks

09:45 - 10:30 Christian Bentz (invited)

Language models and language complexity

10:30 - 11:00 David Sánchez (contributed)

A stochastic model of phonetic variation: Linguistic distances and geography

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:00 Isabell Landwehr & Arianna Bienati (contributed)

Noun phrases in English scientific writing: The diachronic evolution of information density

12:00 - 12:30 Conor Houghton (contributed)

An experimental study of iterated learning and language evolution

12:30 - 13:00 Elena Callegari (contributed)

Emergent syntax in the left periphery: A complexity-inspired simulation of word order patterns

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Main conference

14:45 - 15:30 De Giuli (invited)

Scaling limit of the random language model

15:30 - 16:00 Takehito Suzuki (contributed)

Derivation of the pattern and length distribution of an English sentence using combinatorial categorical grammar

16:00 - 16:45 Break

16:45 - 17:15 Andrea Simonetti (contributed)

Word co-occurrence SVN topic model: A network approach to analyse textual data

17:15 - 17:45 Deepthi Gopal & Henri Kauhanen (contributed)

Contact helps dispreferred combinations of typological features to survive: Geospatial evidence

17:45 - 18:00 Closing remarks