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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at
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Prof. Dr. Jonathan Kaye
Gastprofessor am Institut fuer Sprachwissenschaft,
Universitaet Wien
SEX, LIES AND LINGUISTICS
In this talk I will try to answer, at least in part, some of
the following questions about human linguistic behaviour.
€ Why do children learn language when they do?
€ Why does language acquisition appear to tail off at puberty?
€ Why do linguistic systems always change?
€ Why do people say such stupid things about language?
My principal hypothesis is the human language derived from the
group recognition system employed by hominids rather than from
any primate communication system. It will be shown that a number
of otherwise mysterious properties of human linguistic systems
may be explained by this hypothesis.
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Zeit: Dienstag, 30. November 2004, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence
FREYUNG 6/6, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl