Happy to see this new paper published by Søren Wichmann (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…), "Tone and word length across languages", in vol 2 of our (A.Benítez-Burraco) editorial "The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-Linguistic Causes of Language Diversity"

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.…) in our (A.Benítez-Burraco) RT (frontiersin.org/research-topic…) in Frontiers

Attention PhDs & PostDocs! New 2year post-doc opportunity 2 join ApeTank Warwick Psychology to work on cutting-edge research on the evolution of spoken language. Apply today! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre-e…

New paper by Hadi Khalilia and colleagues, "Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects"(doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…) in our ( A.Benítez-Burraco) RT in Frontiers. Special thanks to @SamPassmore_ and BarthLAB!

This week's student spotlight is Axel G. Ekström (Axel Ekström), who studies speech production from comparative and evolutionary perspectives, including vocal production comparisons across great ape species (Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii, & Gorilla gorilla).

Steven Moran and I have finally produced the editorial piece for our Frontiers - Psychology Research Topic on the non–linguistic causes of language diversity 👉 The editorial is accesible here: osf.io/preprints/psya… 👉 The Research Topic can be browsed here: frontiersin.org/research-topic…

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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 Ximena Gutiérrez Christian Bentz Steven Moran Olga Pelloni (Sozinova)

Steven Moran 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! frontiersin.org/research-topic…

🚨 Two PhD positions available in the new ERC Project "LANGUAGE REDUX" hosted by Laboratoire DDL: language geography of language isolates and Eurasian languages. 🗺️🤓 Apply until June 21st! - emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctora… - emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctora… CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales CNRS Rhône Auvergne

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

3. Dimensions of structure and variability in the human vocal tract w/ Katherine Vaughan-Williams & Steve Moran Steven Moran samkirkham.github.io/pdf/ISSP2024_v…

Hey Google Docs are you suggesting that I switch to British English? Pretty sure I _spelled_ that right.🤔

Two new papers with Steven Moran Axel Ekström et al. from this week’s FONETIK 2024 conference in Stockholm! - Vocal tract proportions and the evolution of speech zenodo.org/records/113960… - Anatomical correlates of articulatory ranges of motion zenodo.org/records/113960…

Swiss NLP Award to Alessia Battisti, @ebling_sarah, Anne Göhring, Zifan Jiang, Amit Moryossef, Mathias Müller , Gerard Sant Muniesa, Annette Rios and the colleagues Regula Perrollaz, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Katja Tissi at HfH for their work in sign language machine translation. 4/4

Nice to see our research highlighted together with super interesting findings from EFP-Primatology in L'uniscope (wp.unil.ch/uniscope/dix-d…). Great job Zifan Jiang! Dr Adrian Soldati (🦋@adriansoldati.bsky.social), Isaac Schamberg, Adriano R. Lameira

And for the second time today, a new paper. This one in Scientific Reports, with Adriano R. Lameira, Steven Moran, @ckagannon.bsky.social on syllabic utterances by two chimpanzees, refuting the idea that chimpanzees are precluded from coupling movements of the jaw and larynx. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Morpho-phonetics: our new approach to studying the biological evolution of speech sounds. Take a look at our manuscript: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Sad to be missing #INTERSPEECH2024 but Daniel Friedrichs will be presenting our paper on Weds! ➡️ Temporal co-registration of simultaneous EMA and EEG for precise articulatory and neural data alignment ⏰ Weds, 15:10-15:30 📍Panacea Amphitheater Steven Moran Mónica Lancheros

New preprint w/ Steven Moran, "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. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…