Invited talks

  1. Martins, P. T. All-or-nothing tells us little about language evolution. Center for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh, UK. May 26, 2020
  2. Martins, P. T. Vocal Learning Contiguum. Unifying Vocal Learning. Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. September 9—13 (poster)
  3. 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
  1. Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Specifying the “Vocal” in Vocal Learning. Evolang XIII, Brussels, Belgium. April 17–20
  2. 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
  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. 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
  1. 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
  2. Andirkó, A.; Sturm, S.; O’Rourke, T.; Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. The Symbolic Species? UBICS Day 2018. University of Barcelona, June 19 (poster)
  3. 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
  4. Martins, P. T.; Boeckx, C. Sound Production Learning and the Contiguum Hypothesis. Evolang XII. Toruń, Poland. April 16—19
2017
  1. Martins, P. T. All-or-nothing theories of language tell us nothing. Protolang 5. Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. September 28—28
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. 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)
  2. Zhang, E.; Martins, P. T.; Shi, E. The multimodal origin of human speech. [Protolang 4. Rome Tre University, Italy. September 24—26
  3. 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
  4. 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
  1. Martins, P. T. A reemergência da biolinguística. XXX Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística. University of Porto, Portugal. October 22—24
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Leivada, E.; Martins, P. T. (Biolinguistic) Primitives Lost in Translation. 36th GLOW Colloquium - Workshop on Biolinguistics. Lund University, Sweden (poster). April 2—6
  10. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. Veloso, J.; Martins, P. T. Etimologia não é Morfologia. XXVI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, University of Porto, Portugal. October 21—23
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. 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
  1. Martins, P. T. Roundtable discussion: Where to go from here?. Comparative Biolinguistics: An Exploratory Worshop, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. November 28—29
2009
  1. 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
  2. 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
  1. 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