Call for Papers

We invite proposals for paper presentations on the following topics including:

1. Language as a complex adaptive system;
2. Language and population evolution;
3. Diachronic and synchronic study of language;
4. Dialect formation and evolution;
5. Archaeological and fossil evidence of language evolution;
6. Vertical and horizontal transmission of language;
7. Language and the brain;
8. Animal communication and human language;
9. Genetics and language;
10. Other language-related research.

Abstracts must be submitted via CIEL2023PolyU@gmail.com in Microsoft Word .DOC or .DOCX format on or before June 12, 2023 June 19, 2023.