The maximal number of onset/nucleus/coda and the number of tones in Eurasian lects, with Nepal and Caucasus zoomed in. Based on Phonotacticon (zenodo.org/records/106237…)

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Really excited to share:
Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
Annual Reviews

We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain.

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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow (full time - until Feb 2027) with expertise in experimental research for our new project 'Does Machine-Assisted Writing Erase Linguistic Diversity?' based in Canterbury, NZ. Please retweet!
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/aji…

NEW BLOG POST:

Jesse Egbert on how collocate lists may not be as useful for linguistic research as they appear to be

Was J.R. Firth wrong?

linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/you…

Happy to have edited this interesting paper about human-social bots interactions
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Out now: 'Corpus Linguistics and the Social Sciences'. #Openaccess article in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, with Tony McEnery. You can read it here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University

Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism
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🚨semantic networks of sound symbolism may not coincide with those of metaphor or metonymy

Now out – open access: Emotionography

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Why an interactional approach to ‘mixed emotion’ is needed.

Rutgers CA Lab 🄳 🄰 🅁 🄶 International Society for Conversation Analysis rolsi journal ASA Emotions Section Emotion Review Consortium of European Research on Emotion American Psychological Association Provost Chris L. Heavey NCA LSI ICA LSI

New paper ✨ The organization of semantic associations between senses in language, with Jorge Alvarado and Ale Salgado cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Metaphor arises in protolanguage with compositionality + selectional restrictions, and is the launching pad for the evolution of grammatical structure. Selectional restrictions transcend holistic vs isolating debate. With @Uta_Reinoehl link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Finally, we conduct a series of fuzzy cluster analyses, carefully building up a hierarchical picture of Chinese dialect regions step-by-step (which we think is much more informative than using hierarchical cluster analysis directly).

Human turn-taking development
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Very exciting news! Volya Kapatsinski and I are co-editing a special collection on language modeling and neural networks!

We aim to foster a productive discussion between linguists, cognitive scientists, neural network modelers, neuroscientists, and proponents of other…

Thrilled to see out our paper on linguistic correlates of societal variation (with Sihan Chen and David Gil)
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
👆We found some support to the view that the languages spoken by close-knit societies tend towards simpler syntaxes, but more complex morphologies

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Marianna Boros, et al. 'Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs'. Current Biology, 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.029
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Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA by Aoife Ahern, JAP and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Free access available until 22 April.
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#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Thrilled to share a review on THE LANGUAGE NETWORK AS A NATURAL KIND—a culmination of ~20 yrs of thinking about+studying language from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and cog neuro perspectives. Nature Rev Neurosci rdcu.be/dEylV
With the amazing Anna Ivanova Tamar Regev 🥳
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Everyone has language rights. That's it. It's not a question of value. Not a question of utility. It's a questions of rights, and the inherent dignity of every single person. The The Guardian is not just wrong, it is spreading harmful ideas.

Fréquence des recherches dans Google pour 'j’ai mal aux yeux' (du 3 au 10 avril) et trajectoire de l’éclipse solaire du 8 avril 🙃