Ph.D. student with a FPI grant (2008-2012)

Currently he continues his research task . Find updated information here.

Dr. Lluís Barceló i Coblijn

Laboratory of Human Systematics, University of the Balearic Islands

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Principal areas of Research: Biolinguistics / Evolution of the Language Faculty / Animal communication

Biosketch

Teaching:

(2011-2012) Pensament i llenguatge [Thought and language] 21324

Publications:

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2012). Biology: a newcomer in linguistics. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition. DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0068-9

Barceló-Coblijn, L., Corominas-Murtra, B. & Gomila, A. (2012). Syntactic trees and small-world networks: syntactic development as a dynamical process. Adaptive Behavior. 20(6): 427-442 doi: 10.1177/1059712312455439

Barceló-Coblijn, L. & Gomila, A. (2012). Evidence of recursion in tool use. Comment on Vaesen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35: 219-220.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. & Gomila, A. (2012). Campbell's monkeys alarm calls are not morpheme based. In The Evolution of Language, Scott-Phillips, T. C., Tamariz, M., Cartmill, E. A., Hurford, J. R. (eds). (pp. 42-49) World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4401-49-4

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (10th February 2012). [Neandertals. Why they could have spoken and why not?] Neandertals. Per què podrien haver parlat i per què no? Doctoral thesis.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011). Co-evolution of hearing and speech in the Genus Homo: The acoustic effect of air sacs on vocalizations and the consequences of their disappearance. Spanish Journal of Psychology. Proceedings of the 4th Iberian Conference on Perception, CIP-Mallorca 2011, 6th-8th July 2011 in Palma (Balearic Islands).

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011) A Biolinguistic Approach to the Vocalizations of H. neanderthalensis and the Genus Homo. Biolinguistics 5.4: 286-334.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011) Quod homines tot sententiae. Critical Book review (27 pages). Biolinguistics 5.3: 227-254.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). Darwin i el llenguatge. Estudis Balearics, 96/97, oct.2009/abr.2010, pp.31-37. Palma. ISSN: 0212/3703. [Catalan]

Nadal, M., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Olivera, A., Christensen, J.F., Rincón-Ruíz, C., & Cela-Conde, C. (2009).  Darwin's Legacy: A comparative approach to the evolution of human derived cognitive traits . Ludus Vitalis, vol. XVII, num. 32, 2009, pp. 145-172.

Presentations at conferences and seminars:

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (28-10-2012). La facultat de llenguatge de l'ésser humà: investigant els seus orígens i evolució. Grup de recerca en anàlisi lingüística (GRALing). Universitat de les Illes Balears. [seminari]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2012). Sources of Biolinguistic Variation. At the ICREA International Biolinguistics Symposium, 1-3 October, Barcelona. Organized by the Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona (University of Barcelona). [poster]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2012). Do transitions in the ontogeny of syntactic networks reflect "jumps" between computational phenotypes within a morphospace? At the "Theory and evidence in language evolution research" thematic session within the 43rd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM).

Barceló-Coblijn, L., Corominas-Murtra, B., & Gomila, A. (2012). From Syntactic trees to small-world networks. Complexity in the ontogeny of syntactic networks of three different first languages: Dutch, German and Spanish. Workshop "In search of new ways to understand language variation, change and acquisition", within the Basque Summer School. Donostia Basqueland. [ poster ]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2012). Research on Language Evolution and the Biolinguistic perspective. Grup de recerca en anàlisi lingüística (GRALing). Universitat de les Illes Balears. [seminari]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2012). Evolutionary theory and Language Evolution: hybridization and  the developmental program of the language faculty. Biolinguistic Initiative Barcelona. Universitat de Barcelona. [seminari]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. & Gomila, A. (2012). Campbell's monkeys alarm calls are not morpheme based. At the 9th Evolution of Language Conference (Evolang9), Kyoto, Japan.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011). The relevance of Neandertal and Sapiens interbreeding for Language Evolution. At the workshop"Advances in Biolinguistics" within the 44th Annual Meeting of Societas Europaea Linguisticae. 8-11 September 2011.  Abstract

Barceló-Coblijn, L. & Gomila, A. (2011). Syntactic development at 25 months: a critical phase transition of grammatical rule induction. Workshop on Complex Systems in Linguistics, at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.  Abstract

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011). Co-Evolution of hearing and speech in the genus Homo: the acoustic effect of air sacs on vocalizations and the consequences of their disappearance. Fourth Iberian Conference on Perception, CIP-Mallorca 6-8 July 2011. Abstract

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011, 27 de juny). "The biolinguistic sense of duality of patterning", seminar organized by the Grup de Biolingüística, Universitat de Barcelona. [seminari]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011, 17 de juny) "Traces of Neadertal vocalization", al Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (CLT), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. [seminari]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2011). Alleged morpheme-based alarm calls in the light of biolinguistics. The role of Duality of Patterning in morphology. At the Graduate workshop on biolinguistics within the19th Conference of Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe. University of Groningen / January 5-8. Abstract [anglès]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2010). A Biolinguistic approach to a sophisticated capacity for oral production of H. neanderthalensis. At the VSSoL Conference on Language, Nature, and Cognition. 16-17 July, Vigo, Spain.  Abstract

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). Faculty of Language: Descent with Modification. In the conference Ways to Protolanguage: the initial stages of the evolution of the language faculty. 21-23 September, Toruń, Poland. Abstract

Christensen, J.F, Nadal, M., Flexas, A., Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). L'evolució de l'ésser humà. Any Darwin a les Illes Balears.

Barceló-Coblijn, L. Nadal, M. , Olivera, A., Christensen, J.F., Flexas, A., Bustos, P., Munar, E.(2009). Els orígens de la cognició humana: les singularitats d'una ment extra-ordinària. Any Darwin a les Illes Balears.

Flexas, A., Nadal, M., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Christensen, J.F. (2009). El Darwinisme avui. Any Darwin a les Illes Balears.

Master Theses

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2007). Universitat de Barcelona. La selecció de l'auxiliar en neerlandès i en alemany: una anàlisi comparativa lèxico-sintàctica. [Catalan] Supervisor: Jaume Mateu Fontanals

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2010). Universitat de les Illes Balears. Una aproximació biolingüística al mosaic de la vocalització de l'Homo neanderthalensis. [Catalan] Supervisor: Antoni Gomila Benejam

Education publications and talks:

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). El llenguatge, prova de la unitat de l'espècie. Pissarra núm 133, p 29-31. ISSN: 1133-052X [Catalan]

Nadal, M., Flexas, A., Christensen, J. F., Barceló-Coblijn, L. Olivera, A., Bustos, P., Rosselló, J. (2009). L'evolució de l'ésser humà. Pissarra. núm 133, p 16-20. ISSN: 1133-052X [Catalan]

Cela Conde, C. J., Christensen, J.F., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Rincón Ruiz, C. (2009). Darwin es va equivocar. Obra Cultural Balear. [Catalan]

Barceló-Coblijn, L. (2009). L'expansió de les llengües arreu del planeta (The expansion of languages across the planet). Talk on the occasion of Darwin's year. ( abstract ) [Catalan]

Links:

Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona

Biolinguistics Group

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