Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒
@Limor_Raviv
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Group leader LEADS @MPI_NL & Lecturer @cSCAN_UofG ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
Nijmegen, Nederland
Joined July 2016
Just published: Children are not the main agents of language change 🚩🚩🚩 Despite a long standing belief that acquisition errors by young kids are the source of language change, here we show that this idea is poorly supported by empirical evidence. Read: https://t.co/nVPAovnTMT
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The amazing Bart de Boer is organizing a workshop at @EvolangConf for exchanging techniques and ideas on how to use AI productively and correctly in language evolution research. Submissions are now open. Please spread the word!
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 "From extant to extinct: The role of experiments and interdisciplinary inferences in studying cognitive and language evolution." (with Svetlana Kuleshova) Out now in #OpenAccess in Journal of Archaeological Science
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Interested in multimodal research? Then join us for this showcase @UofG_MOSAIC later this month!
📅 16 Oct | 14:00–15:30 (GMT) | Zoom 👓 Wearable Facial Multimodal Sensing with @emteqlabs Join MOSAIC's October Grand Challenge to explore how next-gen facial worn wearables open new opportunities for studying multimodal social interaction. Reply below for zoom link
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📅 16 Oct | 14:00–15:30 (GMT) | Zoom 👓 Wearable Facial Multimodal Sensing with @emteqlabs Join MOSAIC's October Grand Challenge to explore how next-gen facial worn wearables open new opportunities for studying multimodal social interaction. Reply below for zoom link
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Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features. Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns https://t.co/f7mjkDUvB8
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community...
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If we’re each allowed to believe one far out idea every 5 years, then I’d use my ticket on this one, or something like it. And it’s not that far out, if you ask me.
In the course of Earth’s history, minerals and life have evolved to become more complex. A new theory proposes that a general principle of the universe drives systems — birds, rocks, language — to become more complex over time. https://t.co/ck3DIZiwPe
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MOSAIC is back! Our first MOSAIC meeting on 'Social Networks in the Age of Humans and AI' will feature Yaomin Jiang & Alice Xia discussing trustworthy AI and social networks shaping gossip. All welcome! Thur, 18 September, 2pm-3.30pm UK time (contact @jonasnoelle for Zoom link)
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I am live-tooting #protolang9 over on the elephant side.🐘You can follow the exact same hashtag there: https://t.co/ydZRXo3of5 Here's a thread of the pre-conf WS: https://t.co/EVcNHnrtVc
#languagevolution #linguistics #biology #neuroscience #AI #philosophy #cogsci
fediscience.org
Attached: 4 images The 9th Protolang is kicked off in Vienna with a fun WS on animal studies. Loving how interactive it is! 🦥🐒🦍🐦🦇🐘 #protolang9 #evolinguistics #linguistics #cognitivescience...
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📣⭐️New @PNASNews paper alert! “The Brain Computes Dynamic Facial Movements for Emotion Categorization Using a Third Pathway” from @SchynsPhilippe lab Read more:
pnas.org
Emerging theories in cognitive neuroscience propose a third brain pathway dedicated to processing biological motion, alongside the established vent...
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We also discuss the issues of using this term, but in the context of cross-species comparative work:
psycnet.apa.org
On the surface, the fields of animal communication and human linguistics have arrived at conflicting theories and conclusions with respect to the effect of social complexity on communicative comple...
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A must read paper for all scholars in our field‼️ #Complexity is quite complex, and we should be very aware of the underlying biases and assumptions encompassed in this term (which are often wrong, as this paper shows).
Our paper is finally out! "Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages" Journal of Linguistics -
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Our paper is finally out! "Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages" Journal of Linguistics -
cambridge.org
Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages
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The new application cycle for our fully funded international graduate program has just started. You can now apply via our website, sign up for a Q&A, or participate in the Applicant Support Program https://t.co/7EURS8HiDC ! 👍🏻🧠👏🏾#passionforscience, #maxplanckschools
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Read more here:
Just published: Children are not the main agents of language change 🚩🚩🚩 Despite a long standing belief that acquisition errors by young kids are the source of language change, here we show that this idea is poorly supported by empirical evidence. Read: https://t.co/nVPAovnTMT
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With @vkempe and @blasi_lang we debunk this old and persistent myth and expose the "holes in the story".
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We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: https://t.co/mC3wmGATuW
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Phonological systems first emerged (and are maintained) through an interplay between biology, physics, and culture = can be construed as cognitive tools https://t.co/uIH73UjYOA
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