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The cultural self-organisation of cognitive grammar
(CRP 01- JA02)
The cultural self-organisation of cognitive grammar: robotic and computational methods
Project Leader: Luc Steels, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
The cultural self-organisation of cognitive grammar: game-theoretic models
Principal Investigator: Cristiano Castelfranchi, Dept of Communication Sciences, Università di Siena, Italy
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The cultural self-organisation of cognitive grammar: neural network simulation
Principal Investigator: Peter Dominey, CNRS UMR 5015, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Bron, France
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Language and genes of the greater Himalayan Region
(CRP 01-JA03)
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Language and genes of the greater Himalayan region
Project Leader: Peter de Knijff, Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University, the Netherlands
DNA variation, linguistic diversity and population history in Europe: a multilocus study
Principal Investigator: Guido Barbujani, Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Ferrara, Italy
Language and genes of the greater Himalayan region Principal Investigator:
Mark Jobling, Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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From symbols to language. The archaeology of the origin of language and early diversification of languages
(CRP 01-JA04)
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From symbols to language. The archaeology of the origin of language and early diversification of languages
Project Leader: Francesco d’Errico, CNRS, Institut de la Préhistoire et de la Géologie du Quaternaire, Talence, France
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Cultural and linguistic identities of the neolithic and protohistoric populations of Europe and Near East
Principal Investigator: Paul-Louis van Berg, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Action, gesture and words in a developmental and evolutionary perspective
(CRP 01-JA05)
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Words, gestures, and signs in the acquisition and development of language
Project Leader: Virginia Volterra, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy
Cross-cultural, cross-linguistic and atypical aspects on words, gestures and signs in the acquisition and development of language
Principal Investigator: Eva Berglund, The Research Group for Language and Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Artificial life models of the evolution of language
Principal Investigator: Domenico Parisi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy
Mirror neurons and communication
Principal Investigator: Giacomo Rizzolatti, Department of Neuroscience, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
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Early diffusion of domestic bovids in the Middle East and Europe: transmission of animals, transfer of technical knowledge
(CRP 01-JA06)
Early diffusion of domestic bovids in the Middle East and Europe: transmission of animals, transfer of technical knowledge
Project Leader: Jean-Denis Vigne, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Paris France
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The berber and the Berber: genetic and linguistic diversity
(CRP 01-JA07)
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The berber and the Berber: genetic and linguistic diversity
Project Leader: Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Centre d’Anthropologie, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Genetic variation of recent Alu insertions in Berber populations: traces of ancient demography and population dynamics
Principal Investigator: Pedro Moral Castrillo, Unitat d’Antropologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Categorical perception and its role in the evolution of language
(CRP 01-JA10)
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Categorical perception and its role in the evolution of language
Project Leader: Joël Fagot, CNRS, Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences, Marseille, France
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Orofacial control in communication in human and non human primates
(CRP 01-JA12)
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Project Leader: Jean-Luc Schwartz, UMR CNRS No 5009, Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France
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Website of the project "Cog-Speech" (in French)
Principal Investigators:
Leonardo Fogassi, Institute of Human Physiology, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Jean-Louis Heim, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie du Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
Jacques Vauclair, Département de Psychologie développementale et différentielle, UFR de Psychologie, Sciences de l’Education, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Mindreading and the emergence of human communication
(MEHC) (CRP 01-JA13)
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Project Leader: François Recanati, CNRS/EHESS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France
Principal Investigators:
Vittorio Gallese, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
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Manuel García-Carpintero, Dpto de Lògica, Història i Filosofía de la Ciència, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Shared mechanisms for speech and gesture recognition?
(CRP 01-JA15)
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Does a mirror system exist for phonetic gestures recognition?
Project Leader: Luciano Fadiga, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
The prehistory of Amazonian languages: Ecological and cultural processes underlying linguistic differentiation
(CRP 01-JA17)
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Project Leader: Alf Hornborg, Human Ecology Division, Lund University, Sweden
East meets West. Linguistic and genetic comparison of modern Eurasian populations.
A joint program in anthropology, ethnology, linguistics and population genetics
(CRP 01-JA18)
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Project Leader: Antti Sajantila, Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland
Principal Investigator: François Jacquesson, Laboratoire des Langues et Civilisations de Tradition Orale, CNRS, Villejuif, France
The emergence of grammar in the brain: A comparative study of acquisition, processing and cortical organisation of the structural aspects of language in bilingual and monolingual populations
(CRP 01-JA20)
Project Leader: Itziar Laka, Linguistica General, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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Principal Investigator: Marina Nespor, Department of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
Pioneers of Island Melanesia
A a joint project between British, Dutch, German and Swedish teams
(CRP 01-JA21)
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Project Leaders:
Robert A. Foley, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Stephen C. Levinson, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Principal Investigators:
Eva Lindström, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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Brain dynamics of language processing and acquisition
(CRP 01-JA25)
Plasticity in neural speech-sound representations underlying language perception and acquisition
Project Leader: Risto Näätänen, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Early word segmentation and representation: psychological responses and electrophysiological correlates
(CRP 01-JA26)
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Project Leader: Thierry Nazzi, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS, Paris, France
Language, culture, and genes in Bantu: a multidisciplinary approach of the Bantu-speaking populations of Africa
(CRP 01-JA27)
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Language, culture and genes in Bantu: a multidisciplinary approach of the Bantu-speaking populations of Africa
Project Leader: Lolke J. van der Veen, Laboratoire « Dynamique du Langage » UMR 5596 — CNRS / Université Lumière - Lyon 2, France
Language, culture and genes in Bantu: a study of the genetic relationships of the different Bantu-speaking populations
Principal Investigator: Jaume Bertranpetit, Dpto de Ciencias Experimentales y de la Salud, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Language, culture and genes in Bantu: a multidisciplinary approach of the Bantu-speaking populations of Africa
Principal Investigator: Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Comparison between processes in language acquisition by children and language evolution
(CRP 01-JA30)
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Comparison between processes in language acquisition by children and language evolution: from the first syllables to the lexical spurt
Project Leader: Sophie Kern, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon, France
Comparison between processes in language acquisition by children and language evolution – case study of Dutch
Principal Investigator: Inge Zink, Department of oto-rhino-laryngology, head and neck surgery, University of Leuven, Belgium
Emergence and flow of gene lineages and languages along the steppe belt and beyond
(CRP 01-JA31)
Project Leader: Richard Villems, Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia
Principal Investigator: André Chaventre, Department of Anthropology and Genetic Demography, Bordeaux University, France
The origins of primate semantic and syntactic abilities
(CRP 01-JA33)
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Project Leader: Ronald Noë, Laboratoire Ethologie et Ecologie comportementale de Primates CEPE (CNRS UPR 9010), Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
