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Sicily Evolution of Language Summerschool

http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/erice2007/index.html

A summerschool will be held in Erice (Sicily) from 14-19 july 2007,  organised by Luc Steels and Vittorio Loretto. It surveys research on  LANGUAGE EVOLUTION from the viewpoint of complex systems science,  linguistics and computational linguistics.

The main school (http://pil.phys.uniroma1.it/erice2007/index.html)  brings together about 30 lecturers, with linguists including: Ben  Bergen, Bill Croft, Bruno Galantucci, Susan Goldin-Meadow,
Jean-Marie Hombert, Jim Hurford, Laura Michaelis, Bill Wang.
There is a specialised atelier (http://www.csl.sony.fr/erice2007/) on  using computational CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR for modeling language  evolution with exercises and hands-on experience.

Pre-registration is required before April 1 2007.