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More language evolution lecture videos - this time from Stockholm 2011

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Magnus Enquist, evolutionary biologist from the Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm Univeristy Earlier, I blogged about the  Nijmegen Lectures by Russell Gray on language evolution . If you want even more lectures on language evolution, then why not watch the lectures from the Symposium on Language Acquisition and Language Evolution at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University form 2011? They're all up and freely available  here ! If you're keen on these things, I recommend having a look through these videos and proceedings. I quote from the preface of the proceedings for the symposium: The symposium was intended as an opportunity for scientists from different research areas to interact and discuss complex dynamic systems in relation to the general theme of “Language Acquisition and Language Evolution”. Complex dynamic systems are characterised by hierarchical and combinatorial structures that can be found in quite di...