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Syntax came before phonology?
A new paper has just appeared in the proceedings of the royal society B entitled, “Language evolution: syntax before phonology?” by Collier et al. The abstract is here: Phonology and syntax represent...
View ArticleVyv Evans: The Human Meaning-Making Engine
If you read my last post here at Replicated Typo to the very end, you may remember that I promised to recommend a book and to return to one of the topics of this previous post. I won’t do this today,...
View ArticleLanguage as a multimodal phenomenon
The issue of multimodality has become a widely discussed topic in several branches of linguistics and especially in research on the evolution of language. Now, a special issue of the “Philosophical...
View ArticleCognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Language
On Tuesday, July 21st, this year’s International Cognitive Linguistics Conference will host a theme session on “Cognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Language” co-organized by three Replicated...
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EvoLang Preview: Zombies, MMORPGs and Language Evolution
As readers of this blog will know, in evolutionary linguistics we use artificial languages in communication games all the time to investigate language evolution. However, these games, for the most...
View ArticleCfP: Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language
Following the ICLC theme session on "Cognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Language" last year, I'm guest-editing a Special Issue of the journal Interaction Studies together with Michael Pleyer,...
View ArticleEmpirical approaches to the study of language evolution (PBR Special Issue)
There is no shortage of special issues on language evolution in the current landscape of academic journals. However, probably none of the three upcoming special issues I know of (or the many more I...
View ArticleUsage context and overspecification
A new issue of the Journal of Language Evolution has just appeared, including a paper by Peeter Tinits, Jonas Nölle, and myself on the influence of usage context on the emergence of overspecification....
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CfP: New Directions in Language Evolution Research
Panorama of Tallinn from the sea (Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATallinnPan.jpg, by Terker, CC-BY-SA 3.0) Jonas Nölle, Peeter Tinits and I are going to submit a workshop proposal to...
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The Color Game: Challenges for App projects
Over at ICCI are a couple of blog posts by Olivier Morin about project I’m involved in, the Color Game. The first post provides an introduction to the app and how it will contribute to research on...
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