Program (updated on 28th June)

The workshop took place in the first week of the ESSLLI 2007 in the second morning slot (10:45-12:15). For some of the presentations, slides have been made available below.

The Proceedings are also available.

Monday, 6th August 2007

Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin), Christian Ebert (University of Bielefeld), Robert van Rooij (ILLC Amsterdam)
Introduction to the Workshop
Invited Talk
Simon Huttegger (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research)
Selection-Mutation Dynamics of Signaling Games

Tuesday, 7th August 2007

canceled:
Thom Scott-Phillips, Simon Kirby, Graham Ritchie (University of Edinburgh)
Signalling signalhood: A study into the emergence of communicative intentions
Atle Grønn (University of Oslo)
Horn Strategies and Contextual Optimization in Russian Aspect
Michael Franke (ILLC Amsterdam)
Independence and Decision-Contexts for Non-Interference Conditionals

Wednesday, 8th August 2007

Alexander Mehler (University of Bielefeld)
Evolving Lexical Networks in a Game Theoretical Perspective. A Simulation Model of Lexical Alignment
Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh University), Miriam Bouzouita (King's College London)
Production pressures and syntactic change: Towards a new perspective on language evolution?

Thursday, 9th August 2007

Bernhard Schröder & Philipp C. Wichardt (University of Bonn)
Modelling Semantic Change as Equilibrium Shift in a Signalling Game
Pieter de Bie (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) & Bart de Boer (University of Amsterdam)
An agent-based model of linguistic diversity

Friday, 10th August 2007

Tikitu de Jager (ILLC Amsterdam)
Quantity Implicature and Speaker Expertise in Signalling Games
Invited Talk
Rohit Parikh (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center)
The Pragmatic Approach to Semantics

Alternates

Mark Jeffreys (Utah Valley State College)
Sometimes a signal is just a cigar: methodological challenges to exploiting signaling-games in coordination experiments.
Andrew Stivers (Oregon State University)
Language Regulation and Dissipation in Meaning