Recent and upcoming presentations


July 2024

  • “Communicative factors in the emergence of phonological dispersion.” Poster at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2024), Rotterdam.
  • “Beginnings, endings, and things in the middle: Why language obsolescence matters for language evolution”. Panel: Investigating Obsolescence: Where are we now? at ICLaVE, Vienna.

May 2024

  • “The emergence of non-absolute synonymy: An iterated-learning experiment.” Talk given by Aja Altenhof at the International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang) 2024, Madison.
  • “The evolution of phonological dispersion: New experimental results.”. Talk at the International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang) 2024, Madison.

March 2024

October 2023

  • “The emergence of phonological organization: Evidence from non-linguistic communication games” Invited talk to Language Evolution and Emergence group, Nijmegen.

June 2023

  • “Some thoughts on artificiality and authenticity.” Invited plenary at 2023 ADE-ALD Summer Seminar at Georgetown University.

April 2023

  • “Competition for semantic resources in artificial languages” Centre for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń.

March 2023

  • “Games, Brains, and Novel Ideals: How communication games unlock new vistas for understanding the dynamics of language.” Invited talk at Language Educator Symposium, University of Pennsylvania.
  • “Social meaning in alien languages: Investigating linguistic indexicality in the laboratory.” Invited talk at Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Michigan State University.