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SUMMARY: Developmental Guest Talk: Dr. Sotaro Kita
DESCRIPTION: Developmental Guest Talk by Dr. Kita Sotaro
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 3><span lang="en-US">TITLE<br /></span></h3><div><span lang="en-US">Childre
 n create design features of language</span></div><div></div><h3><span lang=
 "en-US">ABSTRACT</span></h3><div><span lang="en-US">Why does language have 
 the universal properties that it has? I will provide evidence for the idea 
 that some of the design features of language (Hockett\, 1956) have emerged 
 (partly) due to children's tendency to shape communication systems into "la
 nguage-like" ones.  I will discuss evidence from an emerging sign language 
 (Nicaraguan Sign Language)\, children's gestural communication when speech 
 is not available\, and children's use of sound symbolic words.</span></div>
 <h3>BIO</h3><h3><img class="size-full wp-image-24121 alignleft" src="https:
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 " width="180" height="249" /></h3><p>After studying engineering in Japan (B
 .Eng.\, Mathematical engineering\, 1986\, and M.Eng. Information engineerin
 g\, 1988\, from the University of Tokyo)\, I received a Ph.D. in psychology
  and linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1993. I joined Cognitive
  Anthropology Research Group (lead by Prof. Stephen Levinson) at the Max Pl
 anck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands as a postdoc (1993-
 1994)\, then became a Senior Researcher (1994-2003) in the Language and Cog
 nition department of the Institute. At the Institute\, I founded and lead t
 he Gesture Project\, one of the research foci of the Institute\, for ten ye
 ars. Since 2003\, I have been a faculty member in the University of Bristol
  and then in the University of Birmingham. Since 2013\, I have been the Pro
 fessor of Psychology of Language at the University of Warwick. <a href="htt
 ps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/skita/">More</a>.</p>
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