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
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
@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.
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
🚨 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
@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
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
@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
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).
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!