Recent and upcoming presentations


October 2023

  • 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.

October 2022

  • “New tales of linguistic conflict: Competition for semantic resources in artificial language games.” Invited talk at “New tales of the human past” workshop on cultural and linguistic evolution, Yale University.

September 2022

April 2022

  • Li, A. and Roberts, G. “Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language.” Talk at iClave 11

March, 2022

February, 2022

  • “Competition for semantic resources: Experiments on the dynamics of variation in language.” Invited talk at Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California Merced.