Invited talks
- Martins, P. T. All-or-nothing tells us little about language evolution. Center for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh, UK. May 26, 2020
- Martins, P. T. Vocal Learning Contiguum. Unifying Vocal Learning. Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. September 9—13 (poster)
- Martins, P. T. An Evolutionary Contiguum Hypothesis for Sound Production Learning. Tokyo Conference on Evolinguistics—Where does Phonology Fit in?, University of Tokyo, Japan. March 7, 2019
Conference presentations (peer-reviewed)
2020/upcoming
- Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Specifying the “Vocal” in Vocal Learning. Evolang XIII, Brussels, Belgium. April 17–20
- Silvente i Font, S.,; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Do life histories shape vocal production learning? A bird-based approach. Evolang XIII, Brussels, Belgium. April 17–20 (poster)
2019
- O’Rourke, T.; Andirkó, A.; Sturm, S.; Martins, P. T.; Moriano, J.; Silvente i Font, S.; Rumbo i Roig, M.; Boeckx, C. Complex interactions among language subcomponents. UBICS Day 2019. University of Barcelona, June 18 (poster)
- Zanella M.; Vitriolo, A; Andirk’o, A.; Martins, P. T.; Sturm, S.,; O’Rourke, T.; Laugsch, M.; Malerba, N.; Skaros, A.; Trattaro, S.; Germain, P.-L.; , Merla, G.; Rada-Iglesias, A.; Boeckx, C.; Testa, G. 7q11.23 syndromes reveal BAZ1B as a master regulator of the modern human face and validate the self-domestication hypothesis. EMBL Symposium: Reconstructing the Human Past - Using Ancient and Modern Genomics. Heidelberg, Germany. March 30—April 3 (poster)
- Martins, P. T.; O’Rourke, T.; Andirkó, A.; Sturm, S.; Boeckx, C. A hypothesis concerning how the evolution of prosociality impacted vocal learning. Inaugural workshop of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE). University of Zurich, Switzerland. March 4—5
- Martins, P. T.; O’Rourke, T.; Andirkó, A.; Sturm, S.; Boeckx, C. Glutamatergic modulation of vocal learning circuits through the dopaminergic projections of the Periaqueductal Gray. Language and Music in Cognition: Integrated Approaches to Cognitive Systems. Spring School. Institute of Musicology, Universität zu Köln, Germany. February 2—8 (poster)
2018
- Samuels, B.; Martins, P. T.; O’Rourke, T.; Andirkó, A.; Alamri, S.; Theofanopoulou, C.; Boeckx, C. Rethinking neoteny and neuroplasticity in language evolution. Workshop: New Directions in Language Evolution Research, SLE 2018. Tallin, Estonia. August 29—September 1
- Andirkó, A.; Sturm, S.; O’Rourke, T.; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. The Symbolic Species? UBICS Day 2018. University of Barcelona, June 19 (poster)
- Alamri, S.; Andirkó, A.; O’Rourke, T.; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. The biocognitive ‘guns, germs, and steel’ underlying Homo sapiens’ unique material culture. Workshop: ‘The ‘stuff’ of language: how should archaeology inform language origins studies?’, Evolang XII. Toruń, Poland. April 16
- Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Sound Production Learning and the Contiguum Hypothesis. Evolang XII. Toruń, Poland. April 16—19
2017
- Martins, P. T. All-or-nothing theories of language tell us nothing. Protolang 5. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. September 28—28
- Smailović, J.; Žnidaršič, M.; Valentinčič. A.; Lončarski, I.; Pahor, M.; Martins, P. T.; Pollak, S. Automatic Analysis of Financial Annual Reports: a Case Study. 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary. April 17—23
- Theofanopoulou, C.; O’Rourke, T.; Gastaldon, S.; Messner, A.; Samuels, B.; Martins, P. T.; Alamri, S.; Boeckx, C. Paleogenomic evidence for self-domestication in Homo sapiens. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Annual Conference. École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France. April 6—8
2016
- Veloso, J.; Martins, P. T. Fiabilidade da transcrição fonética de dados de variação: a utilização do “Interjudge Agreement” como forma de validação de transcrição de segmentos dúbios em amostras dialetais. Colóquio dos 40 anos do CLUP. University of Porto, Portugal. November 24—25
- Martins, P. T.; Toro, J. M.; Bonatti, L. Generalizing rules over clicks: Preliminary results. DuCog 2016. Center for Advanced Academic Studies (University of Zagreb), Dubrovnik, Croatia. April 28—May 1 (poster)
2015
- Alamri, S.; Zhang, E.; Theofanopoulou, C.; Castillo, G.; Shi, E.; Martins, P. T.; Martínez-Ferreiro, S.; Boeckx, C. Implications of subcortical structures in Aphasia. Academy of Aphasia 53rd Annual Meeting. Tucson, AZ, USA. October 18—20 (poster)
- Zhang, E.; Martins, P. T.; Shi, E. The multimodal origin of human speech. [Protolang 4. Rome Tre University, Italy. September 24—26
- Theofanopoulou, C.; Zhang, E. Q.; Alamri, S.; Castillo, G.; Shi, E. R.; Martins, P. T.; Martínez-Ferreiro, S.; Boeckx, C. Subcortical structures and language disruption. 16th Science of Aphasia Conference. University of Aveiro, Portugal. September 17—22
- Martins, P. T.; Samuels, B.; Boeckx, C. What makes speech human-specific? Biolinguistic Investigations on the Language Faculty. Instituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia, Italy. January 26—28.
2014
- Martins, P. T. A reemergência da biolinguística. XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. University of Porto, Portugal. October 22—24
- Leivada, E.; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Biology and culture in the evolution of language: Addressing the gap. “What made us human? Biological and cultural Evolution of Homo Sapiens” Workshop, International School of Ethology. Erice, Italy. October 14—19
- Boeckx, C.; Leivada, E.; Martins, P. T.; Benítez-Burraco, A. From the language-ready brain to full-fledged linguistic systems. 11th International Conference on General Linguistics — Biological foundations of language, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. May 21—23
2013
- Boeckx, C.; Martins, P. T.; Leivada, E. Putting an End to Featuritis. Features in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics: What are they?, University of Tromsø/CASTL, Norway. October 31–November 1
- Boeckx, C.; Rosselló, J.; Martínez-Àlvarez, A.; Martins, P. T.; Leivada, E. The role of the environment in the evolution of the language faculty. Linguistic Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge - Beyond our primate inheritance: Neurobiological and evolutionary approaches to language, University of Cambridge, UK (poster). October 3—4
- Martins, P. T. Enhanced Motor Abilities as Speech Exaptations. Linguistic Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge - Beyond our primate inheritance: Neurobiological and evolutionary approaches to language, University of Cambridge, UK (poster). October 3—4
- Martins, P. T.; Leivada, E. An Evolutionary Perspective on Language and Complexity. Linguistic Sciences in the 21st Century: The Interdisciplinary Challenge - Beyond our primate inheritance: Neurobiological and evolutionary approaches to language, University of Cambridge, UK (poster). October 3—4
- Leivada, E.; Boeckx, C.; Rosselló, J.; Martins, P. T.; Martínez-Àlvarez, A. The evolution of the language faculty: why the environment was key. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, University of Vienna, Austria (poster). September 19—21
- Martins, P. T.; Leivada, E. Language and the Evolution of Complexity. 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, University of Vienna, Austria (poster). September 19—21
- Martins, P. T. Biolinguistics and Evo-Devo: Business as Usual?. What can an extended synthesis do for biolinguistics: On the needs and benefits of Evo-Devo-Logo Workshop, International Conference on Evolutionary Patterns: Horizontal and Vertical Transmission in Micro- and Macroevolutionary Patterns of Biological and Sociocultural Evolution, Lisbon, Portugal. May 27—29
- Boeckx, C.; Leivada, E.; Martínez-Álvarez, A.;Martins, P. T.; Rosselló, J. On the Need of a New Concept: Syntactic Protolanguage. Protolang 3, Wrocław, Poland. May 25—26
- Leivada, E.; Martins, P. T. (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in Translation. 36th GLOW Colloquium - Workshop on Biolinguistics. Lund University, Sweden (poster). April 2—6
- Benítez-Burraco, A.; Martínez Álvarez, A.; Leivada, E.; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Language and Laterality: A More Nuanced View. Tarragona Laterality Conference, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain (poster). February 1—13
2012
- Rennicke, I.; Martins, P. T. Algumas considerações sobre as realizações fonéticas de /R/ em português europeu. XXVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, University of the Algarve, Portugal. October 25–27
- Veloso, J.; Martins, P. T. Tratamento linguístico e cartográfico de um conjunto de amostras dialetais do português europeu: primeiros resultados. XXVIII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, University of the Algarve, Portugal. October 25—27
- Martins, P. T.; Veloso, J. Inter-judge agreement in transcribing dialectal data: a study of a corpus of dialectal Portuguese. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Stockholm University, Sweden (poster). August 29–September 1 [Best Poster Presentation Award—2nd prize]
2010
- Veloso, J.; Martins, P. T. Etimologia não é Morfologia. XXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, University of Porto, Portugal. October 21—23
- Martins, P. T.; Veloso, J. Evidências do nível morfómico em português. III Jornadas de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Fonologia, University of Porto, Portugal. June 26
- Veloso, J.; Martins, P. T. Phonotactic Constraints and Word Demarcation in Romance. CUNY Conference on the Word, New York, NY, USA (poster). January 14—15
Others
2014
- Cafè Científic: Què és allò que ens fa humans? [What makes us human?]. Debate with David Comas and Mara Dierssen. Barcelona, Spain. May 22
2013
- Martins, P. T. Roundtable discussion: Where to go from here?. Comparative Biolinguistics: An Exploratory Worshop, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. November 28—29
2009
- Martins, P. T.; Gil Pires, M. O Arquivo Dialectal da FLUP/CLUP. Sessão pública de divulgação dos resultados do trabalho desenvolvido pelos bolseiros BII, Center of Linguistics of the University of Porto, Portugal. November 25
- Martins, P. T.; Gil Pires, M. Fonotáticas: Primeira Apresentação do Projecto Arquivo Dialectal da FLUP/CLUP. II Jornadas de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Fonologia, Faculdade de Letras da Univerisidade do Porto, Portugal. April 19
2007
- Cunha, A.; Martins, P. T.; Oliveira, A.; Pinto, F. JAVALI: Julgamentos de Valor Acerca da Variação Linguística: População do Porto. Percepção e Apreciação das Variações Sociolectais e Dialectais no Português Europeu Contemporâneo, University of Porto, Portugal. December 21