I field a lot of questions about ancestral state reconstruction of discrete traits so I posted a new tutorial to my blog that contains a number of useful #Rstats #phytools demos. 😀

Check it out here: blog.phytools.org/2024/04/a-few-….

Somewhat late but my dissertation is now online! I look at how syntax and semantics relate to each other in Pintupi-Luritja, a Western Desert (Pama-Nyungan) language of Central Australia, particularly through negation, association with focus and modality

Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul nature.com/articles/s4146…

Really happy to announce our new (open access) paper was finally published today in Linguistics (journal)!

'Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach'

doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… 🔓

with He Huang (lead author), Lei Jia and Zhuo Chi

A short 🧵...

The ALS is offering five scholarships and prizes to provide funding support of up to $5,000 for linguistics research students conducting research in any area of linguistics.

Deadline: 6 May 2024

Find out more here: als.asn.au/Pages/ALS/Gran…

👨‍💻Many #job #offers ( #PhD , #postdoc and #labmanager ) in the fields of #Linguistics , #DataScience , #Cognitive #Neurosciences and more, are available on our website. Join us on our quest to elucidate the mysteries of language evolution!

evolvinglanguage.ch/jobs/

Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived theconversation.com/aboriginal-peo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

For people interested in such things, I just submitted a new book chapter on ancestral state reconstruction & you can check out a pre-print version here: github.com/liamrevell/Rev….

Hey! do you want to load Cross-Linguistic data into #Rstats in #CLDF format? try rcldf:

github.com/SimonGreenhill…

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New paper by Olena Shcherbakova &co: The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom.

Our results suggest that verb-final word order leads to cases, which in turn make word order flexible.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

It's claimed perceptual language reflects a biologically grounded hierarchy of the senses. Using a stratified global sample of 100 languages, a new study led by Elisabeth Norcliffe finds domain-general constraints explain lexicalization patterns instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article…

In a polarised world where knowledge about and tolerance for human diversity is in decline, we need anthropology more than ever. The closure of a leading department in the UK is a terrifying portent of where societal priorities are heading.

A while ago I made an annotated bibliography responding to the question of how linguistics has produced knowledge about Indigenous peoples, and how Indigenous peoples have responded. I've shared drafts here before but the official version is now online:
arts-icrp.unimelb.edu.au/static/assets/…

Congratulations to the Glottolog team for releasing v5.0: glottolog.org #linguistics

👉Language science has been ignoring the role feedback in language learning for too long!
📣The first paper from a new line of Cognitive Science of Language Lab research just out, headed by Felicity Frinsel and with fabio trecca:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1…
See this 🧵for additional info: twitter.com/FFrinsel/statu…

Out now & open access Cambridge Elements: Michael Pleyer and I explore the intersection of #CognitiveLinguistics and #LanguageEvolution research cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Now out in PNASNews! Large-scale reading evidence that next-word predictability effects in humans are driven by *inference* (logarithmic in predictability) rather than preactivation (linear in predictability). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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For our first ISLE Colloquium this year, we welcome Erich Round, speaking on 'Language's infection point: From cognitive spark to astounding richness'
Tomorrow 4:15pm at UZH Oerlikon, room AFL-F-121
surrey.ac.uk/people/erich-r…

Quant Ling people: Do you have an example where two different 'camps' of language scientist would use different statistical tools to answer the same research question? (out of sheer conventions in their subfield maybe)

We are happy to announce our fee waivers and Cultural Evolution Society ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham . You can apply for both here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/inclusivity-aw… The deadline is 20th April at 9 am BST and you will hear back before the deadline for early bird registration on 20th May 4pm BST