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New preprint w/ @stivits, "Minimal Viable Sound Systems for Language"!
We refute the vocal learning hypothesis for speech evolution, showing how it misrepresents and mispredicts great ape & human sound repertoires and needed requirements for language.
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Morpho-phonetics: our new approach to studying the biological evolution of speech sounds.
Take a look at our manuscript:
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And for the second time today, a new paper. This one in @SciReports, with @lameira_adriano, @stivits, @CKAGannon on syllabic utterances by two chimpanzees, refuting the idea that chimpanzees are precluded from coupling movements of the jaw and larynx.
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Nice to see our research highlighted together with super interesting findings from @EFPrimatology in L'uniscope (wp.unil.ch/uniscope/dix-deco…). Great job @Jiang_Zifan!
@AdrianSoldati, @isaacschamberg, @lameira_adriano
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Steven Moran retweeted
Swiss NLP Award to Alessia Battisti, @ebling_sarah, Anne Göhring, @Jiang_Zifan, @amitmoryossef, @bricksdont , @SantMuniesa, @arios272 and the colleagues @PerrollazRegula, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Katja Tissi at HfH for their work in sign language machine translation. 4/4
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Hey @googledocs are you suggesting that I switch to British English? Pretty sure I _spelled_ that right.🤔
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The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive (archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/) is one of the first massively multilingual speech corpora w/ audio from >300 languages. Tomorrow we’ll be presenting the VoxAngeles Corpus with audited phonetic transcriptions and alignments for ~100 languages #lreccoling24
ALT global map of regionally poinpointed languages represented in the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive
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🚨 Two PhD positions available in the new ERC Project "LANGUAGE REDUX" hosted by @DDL_Laboratoire: language geography of language isolates and Eurasian languages. 🗺️🤓
Apply until June 21st!
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@CNRSshs @CNRS_dr07
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@stivits and I are pleased to inform that our Research Topic "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-linguistic Causes of Language Diversity, volume II" has been published as an e-book, which is now freely available online
Enjoy and share!
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Steven Moran retweeted
Why more languages doesn't guarantee more linguistic diversity? How can we measure linguistic diversity in NLP benchmarks? Find out in our new pre-print:
arxiv.org/abs/2403.03909
@XimGutierrez @chrisbentz1 @stivits @olgapelloni
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@stivits and I have finally produced the editorial piece for our @FrontPsychol Research Topic on the non–linguistic causes of language diversity
👉 The editorial is accesible here:
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👉 The Research Topic can be browsed here:
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This week's student spotlight is Axel G. Ekström (@Freudian__Slap), who studies speech production from comparative and evolutionary perspectives, including vocal production comparisons across great ape species (Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, & Gorilla gorilla).
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New paper by Hadi Khalilia and colleagues, "Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects"(doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1…) in our (
@abenitezburraco) RT in Frontiers. Special thanks to @SamPassmore_ and @DanielleBarth1!
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Steven Moran retweeted
Attention PhDs & PostDocs!
New 2year post-doc opportunity 2 join ApeTank @warwickpsych to work on cutting-edge research on the evolution of spoken language.
Apply today!
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New paper by Ian Maddieson and Karl Benedict, "Demonstrating environmental impacts on the sound structure of languages: challenges and solutions" (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1…) in our (@abenitezburraco) RT (frontiersin.org/research-top…) in Frontiers
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Happy to see this new paper published by Søren Wichmann (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1…), "Tone and word length across languages", in vol 2 of our (@abenitezburraco) editorial "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity"
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Very happy to see published this great paper by @Dan_Dediu which I have edited for @FrontPsychol 👇
Ultraviolet light affects the color vocabulary: evidence from 834 languages
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Happy to see this paper published in @FrontPsychol by @garicgymro and Robin Clark (UPenn): The emergence of phonological dispersion through interaction: an exploratory secondary analysis of a communicative game (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1…)
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Very happy to see published this paper by Caleb Everett and colleagues that I have edited for @FrontPsychol 👇
Aerosols, airflow, and more: examining the interaction of speech and the physical environment
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