云山讲座教授龚涛博士系列讲座
题目: 演化语言学跨学科研究
报告人：龚涛博士（耶鲁大学Haskins实验室）
摘要：
此系列报告重点介绍了演化语言学这一复兴学科的基本概念并概述最新的跨学科的研究方法在演化语言学中的应用。
本系列报告共分9个部分，将通过两个学年的时间依次给出。
本学年：
报告一：回顾演化语言学发展脉络，并综述其所涵盖的多个相关学科；
时间：2016年6月30日周四下午2点
地点：八教306演示厅
报告二：介绍演化语言学基本概念，并重点从语言学角度讨论语言演化的相关研究方向和成果；
时间：2016年7月1日周五上午9点
地点：八教306演示厅
报告三：介绍考古学与人类学研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限；
时间：2016年7月5日周二上午9点
地点：八教306演示厅
报告四：介绍动物行为学研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限；
时间：2016年7月7日周四上午9点
地点：八教306演示厅
下学年：
报告五：介绍基因学研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限；
报告六：介绍脑科学研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限；
报告七：综述语言演化的主要理论，论据和正反实例；
报告八：介绍计算机模拟仿真研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限；
报告九：介绍心理学和行为学实验研究语言演化的手段，实例和局限。
本系列报告旨在开拓研究者眼界，归纳未来演化语言学发展方向，并强调跨学科研究方法对语言演化研究的重要性。
报告人简介：
龚涛，男，2007年毕业于香港中文大学，获博士学位，师从国际著名语言学家王士元教授。博士毕业后，龚涛先后在意大利罗马睿智大学、德国莱比锡进化人类学研究所和英国爱丁堡大学分别从事博士后、洪堡学者和英国科学院访问学者工作。在香港大学语言学系任教四年后，龚涛博士目前在美国耶鲁大学Haskins实验室从事研究员工作。龚涛的研究兴趣包括：演化语言学、计算机模拟仿真研究、复杂系统以及心理语言学。龚涛博士著有专著Computational Simulation inEvolutionary Linguistics: A Study on Language Emergence（台湾中央研究院语言研究所），并在很多国际跨学科和语言学期刊如PNAS、PLOS ONE、Proceedings of Royal Society B、Lingua、Language、LanguageSciences、Language and Linguistics、Artificial Life、Biolinguistics等发表论文近50篇，并在很多国际会议如Evolang5-9和IACL-19等做重要报告。
Haskins实验室主页：http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/gong.html
Google scholar主页：http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R3scOF4AAAAJ
Title: Multidisciplinary Research in Evolutionary Linguistics
Speaker: Dr. Tao Gong (Haskins Laboratories, Yale University)
Abstract:
This series lecture introducesevolutionary linguistics, a resurgent discipline in linguistics. I will talk about the basic concepts and theories in this discipline, and survey a varietyof research methods and examples coming from a number of relevant disciplines that contribute to our understanding of language and language evolution.
The whole series consist of 9 lectures,which will be delivered across two academic years during my visit to the National Key Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
This year:
Lecture 1: General Introduction to Evolutionary Linguistics
Time: 2 p.m. Thursday, June 30, 2016
Venue: Room 306, Academic Building 8
Lecture 2: Basic Concepts of Evolutionary Linguistics
Time: 9 a.m. Friday, July 1, 2016
Venue: Room 306, Academic Building 8
Lecture 3: Anthropology and Archaeology Perspectives on Language Evolution
Time: 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 5. 2016
Venue: Room 306, Academic Building 8
Lecture 4: Animal Cognition and Communication
Time: 9 a.m. Thursday, July 7, 2016
Venue: Room 306, Academic Building 8
Next year:
Lecture 5: Genetic Perspectives on Language Evolution
Lecture 6: Neuroscience Perspectives on Language Evolution
Lecture 7: Theories of Language Origin
Lecture 8: Computer Simulation of Language Evolution
Lecture 9: Behavioral Experiments on the Origin of Communication System
This series lecture aims to extend thevision of researchers from various disciplines, summarize major directions of future research in evolutionary linguistics, and emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of studies about language and language evolution.
Speaker's bio:
Tao Gong graduated in 2007 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. William S-Y. Wang, a globally famous linguist. After graduation, he had taken the postdoctoral job at Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, the Humboldt Fellowship at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and the British Academy of Sciences Visiting Fellowship at University of Edinburgh in UK. After teaching for four years in Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong, Dr. Gong is now a research scientist at Haskins Laboratories, Yale University.His research interests include: evolutionary linguistics, computational simulation, complex systems, and psycholinguistics. His publications include amonograph Computational Simulation inEvolutionary Linguistics: A Study on Language Emergence (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei), and about 50 journal papers in many interdisciplinary and linguistics journals, such as PNAS, PLOS ONE, Proceedings of Royal Society B, Lingua, Language,Language Sciences, Language and Linguistics, Artificial Life, Biolinguistics.He also gave several reports in many international conferences such as Evolang5-9 and IACL-19.
Haskins staff page: http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/gong.html
Google scholar homepage: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=R3scOF4AAAAJ
