Gareth Roberts

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

• Altenhof, A. and Roberts, G. “Quality not quantity in synonymy avoidance.” Talk at Joint Conference on Language Evolution.
• Ventura, R. and Roberts, G. “Drift, selection, iconicity and frequency: An experimental study of lexical replacement.” Talk at Joint Conference on Language Evolution.

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

• “Aliwns, arbrofion, ac amrywiad iaith.” Invited talk at Department of Welsh, Cardiff University.
• Li, A. and Roberts, G. “Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: the emergence of indexicality in an artificial language.” Talk at Georgetown University Round Table.

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.