Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 1996. Partial financial assistance for living expenses will be available for selected applicants from NATO and affiliated countries. Participants must be in attendance for the duration of the conference. The center is 65km north of Pisa International Airport. A rail station is a short distance from Il Ciocco.
Bus transfer to and from Pisa airport is provided at the beginning and end of the conference.
The five day program will include papers on all aspects of the origins and evolution of spoken, written, and signed languages. What we know about evolutionary, developmental, social, and linguistic processes places severe constraints upon plausible scenarios for the origins and evolution of language, and several papers will be explicitly concerned with defining these constraints. As in past LOS meetings and consistent with its multidisciplinary character, a broad range of disciplines will be represented. This fee will include the entire academic program as well as a Welcome Reception on Thursday evening and a special LOS Dinner on Sunday evening. The single day fee is for sessions only.