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By employing 'Information theory' to the study of human language, Richard Futrell (UC Irvine) shows that this framework can be broadened from its usual applications. Learn more about Ricahrd's "Information-theoretic approaches to linguistics" course here: ow.ly/X2pA30nHJvE

We accepted "Information-theoretic causal inference of lexical flow" by Johannes Dellert langsci-press.org/catalog/book/2…

New paper by Alexander Koplenig arguing that population size effects language structure but not proportion of non-native speakers. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.109…

Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration. New paper out in @Science from @DeptCompLing & ISLE members Damian Blasi, Steven Moran, @BalthasarBickel, Paul Widmer, and colleagues @Dan_Dediu, Scott Moisik science.sciencemag.org/content/363/64…

How do we speak about the things we smell, taste, hear and see around us? Cognitive Linguistics lecturer Bodo Winter spoke to us about his research Uni of Birmingham into language, perception and gesture - youtube.com/watch?v=IHhe5u…

My upcoming research monograph on language, perception and metaphor is up on the @johnbenjamins website, woohoo! Lots of corpus linguistics in there too. The book is expected to come out in April! benjamins.com/catalog/celcr.… Ling&Comm@UoB CCR #SensoryLinguistics

Our new article (Therfer Neus Català) on vocabulary learning is finally out in #InteractionStudies. Children tend to learn more polysemous words later. We propose a new learning bias for words of low polysemy. doi.org/10.1075/is.160… KathyandRo Vera Kempe aka @[email protected] Child Language Lab Child Language Lab MQ

Special Issue "Information Theory and Language" Entropy MDPI Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2019. mdpi.com/journal/entrop…

Our website now up and running :-). #GramAdapt #ERC University of Helsinki helsinki.fi/en/news/langua…

pnas.org/content/116/15… "In cases where one word dominates all others for a.. meaning—..as is typical of the words in the core lexicon..—word choice is guided by positive freq.-dependent selection—a bias that makes speakers.. likely to use the words that most others use."

Now out: How efficiency shapes human language, with Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT, Richard Futrell, Isabelle Dautriche, Kyle Mahowald, Leon Bergen, and Roger Levy cell.com/trends/cogniti…

My book with @johnbenjamins is out!! — thread: 1/6 *** Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor *** benjamins.com/catalog/celcr.…

New article out with Simon Kirby Rob Truswell & @kennysmithed showing the emergence of compositional hierarchical structure in an #iteratedLearning exp via same cultural transmission mechanisms as #kirbyCornishSmith2008 w/ a more complex meaning space academic.oup.com/jole/advance-a…

Language simulation with neural network shows emergence of patterns *opposite* to Zipf's Law of Abbreviation, i.e. anti-efficiency - arxiv.org/abs/1905.12561. Mirrors what we (Raphaela Heesen Cat Hobaiter R. Ferrer-i-Cancho🎗) found in chimp body signals royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs….

Natural language has the property that it is hard to model precisely, but relatively easy to model approximately. Joint work with Michael Hahn appearing in the Entropy Special Edition on Information Theory and Language. mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/7… Thread 1/n

Languages that evolve in big communities are more systematic (Thread): In my new The Royal Society paper w/ Shiri Lev-Ari & Meyer (doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…), we used a group communication game to show that population size shapes the grammar of languages. Free at bit.ly/2SmgjYB

A popular book about #QuantitativeLinguistics, by 2 outstanding members of complexitat.cat: Therfer and R. Ferrer-i-Cancho🎗. The community is anxious for the English translation!

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Super excited to announce that my #rstats textbook is scheduled to come out in just about a few weeks!! You can already pre-order it on Amazon. Check out a description of the book's approach on my webpage: bodowinter.com

FANTASTIC times ahead: our #NCCR #EvolvingLanguage has been selected as one of 6 nationwide research foci. We will integrate #languagescience with animal communication, genetics, anthropology, developmental science and neuroscience. Stay tuned for more University of Zurich