WHY DO LANGUAGES CHANGE? A REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND HUMAN COMPLEXITY

The International Workshop on Language and Human Complexity took place on October 25-28, 2014 at Peking University, with language change as the theme. This four-day workshop covered eight important topics of language change, i.e. the emergence of syllabic languages, special changes in Tibeto-Burman languages, Literal/Colloquial competition, formation of the Huihui language, bilingual development, phonemic load, dynamic studies of Chinese, and the Sino-Tai hypothesis.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000352250500012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701Asian StudiesLinguisticsLanguage & LinguisticsA&HCISSCI0ARTICLEwfwf@pku.edu.cn1249-2554