Steven Moran

Linguist. Traveler. Swimmer. Brewer. Assistant prof at @UniNeuchatel. Views my own.

[Adriano R. Lameira @lameira_adriano]

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.

https://t.co/xMfIRNshIp

[Marcia Ponce de León @MarcitaPdL]

Morpho-phonetics: our new approach to studying the biological evolution of speech sounds.
Take a look at our manuscript:
https://t.co/m9zZx4PLbU

[Axel Ekström @Freudian__Slap]

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.

https://t.co/CsA9P3JVvs

[Steven Moran @stivits]

@SimonJGreenhill @NataliaLevshina So what about preprints? I still work with a lot of people who feel strongly one way or another, precisely because they aren't really published, so the ideas could be stolen. On the other hand, if reviewers have already seen the work and rejected it, the ideas can also be stolen.

[Steven Moran @stivits]

Nice to see our research highlighted together with super interesting findings from @EFPrimatology in L'uniscope (https://t.co/95xLHnbH4w). Great job @Jiang_Zifan!
@AdrianSoldati, @isaacschamberg, @lameira_adriano

[Zurich Computational Linguistics Group @cl_uzh]

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

[Steven Moran @stivits]

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

[Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff]

The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive (https://t.co/jfjESRXTmM) 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

[Steven Moran @stivits]

@DDL_Laboratoire @CNRSshs @CNRS_dr07 Great opportunities to do a PhD with Matthias Urban (https://t.co/y3XCaq11A3), who is fantastic to work with!

[Laboratoire DDL @DDL_Laboratoire]

🚨 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!

- https://t.co/Z30Cu3TOea
- https://t.co/iMdlXNc3iQ

@CNRSshs @CNRS_dr07

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

@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!
https://t.co/mCVc5AgG9R

[Tanja Samardzic @tsamardzict]

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:
https://t.co/92hdIwg1rL

@XimGutierrez @chrisbentz1 @stivits @olgapelloni

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

https://t.co/rgUSPYZ8Lu

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

@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:
https://t.co/Lbvt01tt4J
👉 The Research Topic can be browsed here:
https://t.co/ec8VyqIGfD

[Steven Moran @stivits]

@johnbasil Use what the language users prefer to use.

[AmSoc Primatologists @ASPvoice]

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).

[Steven Moran @stivits]

New paper by Hadi Khalilia and colleagues, "Lexical diversity in kinship across languages and dialects"(https://t.co/2cvsXvnTGG) in our (
@abenitezburraco) RT in Frontiers. Special thanks to @SamPassmore_ and @DanielleBarth1!