Professor of Language Development at the University of Edinburgh. He/him
Edinburgh, UK
Joined June 2012
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Another attempt at summarizing this study with @vkempe 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.2024.10…
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New paper with @inbalarnon! 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
We are hiring a lecturer (= U.S. tenure-track assistant professor) in theoretical syntax. Please apply (Deadline: 20 March)! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
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.…
The reconstructed piece itself is beautiful music. theguardian.com/science/2023…
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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, @veroboyce and @anjie_cao
ALT Article abstract
ALT Forest plot of data from the study
ALT Meta-analytic model parameters
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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/S03050009220…
Interesting and somewhat disturbing.
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220334
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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/…
Today I visited Ploština, a village in the Czech Rep, where 4 of my wife’s grandfather’s family members (the Zicha/Zichovas) were among those burnt alive by an SS unit on April 19, 1945.
Our response to Kidd & Garcia.
We agree with Kidd and Garcia's call for more diversity in language acquisition research. These are some of the steps we're taking at Language Acquisition: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
What a way to celebrate Marilyn's career! It was totally worth waiting for two years.
Building Linguistic Systems, a conference last week in honour of my mom Marilyn Vihman’s career, 2x pandemic-postponed. Thanks organisers, @cathelaing24, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Ghada Khattab, @UoYLangLing. Perfect mix of stimulating debate & nostalgic retrospecting
She was such an inspirational person. This is a big loss.
Anne Cutler 1945-2022: Anne Cutler, our beloved colleague, recently became ill with an opportunistic lung infection shortly after traveling to London for her official induction as a 2020 Fellow of the British Academy. From there she traveled to Nijemgen,… dlvr.it/SRr8Kr
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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
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The faint hearted should not read this.
Yesterday, at our own risk, we left Mariupol under gunfire. We stayed overnight in a field in a gray zone. It was freezing outside, thank God we are alive. We are alive to scream that everyone who stayed in Mariupol needs help!
11 days left to help raise the legal costs for the #USSMess #USS pensions case before it goes to the UK High Court crowdjustice.com/case/save-p…