The meeting has the sponsorship of the Associação Portuguesa de Linguística and of the Complexo interdisciplinar of the University of Lisbon and is supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (Portugal).
The workshop will take place at the Complexo interdisciplinar of the University of Lisbon as an activity of the Mathematical-Physics group. It is a satellite activity of the ZIF's Project The Sciences of Complexity and is part of the Fapesp's Thematic Project Rhythmic Patterns, Parameter Setting and Language Change.
The organizers express their gratitude to the agencies and laboratories which made this meeting possible by providing individual support to most foreigner participants: CNPq, FAPESP, FINEP, Universidade de S.Paulo, UNICAMP (Brazil), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique and Université de Bourgogne (France), CNR and Università di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), Universidade de Lisboa and Fundação Gulbenkian (Portugal), Bell Labs and NSF (USA) . We thank the Câmara Municipal de Cascais for inviting the participants of the meeting to visit the town.