People are criticising Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for being “ungrateful”. Be under no illusion, it’s rooted in racist (PoC should be grateful to Britain and never criticise) & misogynistic (women should shut up and be nice) stereotypes. She has every right to publicly…1/2

I know that businesses are struggling to deal with rising cost, but ...

She was such an inspirational person. This is a big loss.

What a way to celebrate Marilyn's career! It was totally worth waiting for two years.

Our response to Kidd & Garcia.

I am excited to announce we’re hiring a permanent lecturer in Sign Language Linguistics! Research in development, acquisition, bimodal bilingualism or BSL, desirable. Applicants with a lived experience of deafness particularly encouraged. Please RT widely! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Wheee it's OUT - this girl's first (open access too!) article w/ her wondyful supervisors Marilyn Vihman and Tamar Keren-Portnoy (and Mits Ota and Shanshan Lou)! Clearly, they know my life motto, always saving the best for the last 😏. (I jest, obvs.) doi.org/10.1017/S03050…

Developmentalists: have you been wondering if online experiments with young children are comparable to in-lab studies? Here's our new meta-analysis suggesting that overall they are! psyarxiv.com/qc6fw - work by Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce and anjie cao | 曹安洁

The reconstructed piece itself is beautiful music. theguardian.com/science/2023/a…

Which of these made-up words is the easiest to learn: 'lali', 'lapa', or 'lapi'? And why? Read our new paper to find out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

We are hiring a lecturer (= U.S. tenure-track assistant professor) in theoretical syntax. Please apply (Deadline: 20 March)! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

New paper with Inbal Arnon! Using methods from statistical learning we show how two key properties of language - statistically coherent recombinable units, and Zipfian distributions - arise from cultural evolution experiments with non-linguistic sequences. rdcu.be/dAgBz

Another attempt at summarizing this study with Vera Kempe aka @[email protected] and @TweetSchaeffler: Outside phonetics & phonology, there hasn't been enough work done to support the conclusion that child-directed speech has specific features that facilitate language development. doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2…