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Full professor of Linguistics. University of Seville (Spain) Interested in language evolution …

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Este hilo reúne mis recientes columnas de opinión en @abcdesevilla y @larazon_es 🙂Trato temas en los que confluyen la lingüística, la biología, la sociología y la cultura 😕Sí, tienen una derivada política y cuestionan la ideología dominante, sorda a los argumentos científicos
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Are all human languages equally complex? 👇 Meta-analyses of 28 complexity metrics applied to texts written in overall 80 typologically diverse languages: - partially support the trade-off hypothesis - fully support the equi-complexity hypothesis
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Relación de documentos que debo presentar a mi universidad para que me reintegre los gastos derivados de mi participación en un congreso (adelantados de mi bolsillo) 🤔 Y seguro que falta alguno y/o debo subsanar algo 👇 Me ha llevado más tiempo esto que preparar las ponencias
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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages #conlangs #linguistics
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Excellent review paper of current neuroimaging approaches to the evolution of the primate brain #neuroscience #primate #brain
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Interested in neurolinguistics? Don't miss this recent "beyond-Broca" paper by @GregoryHickok and colleagues
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An empty Europe: during the Aurignacian period (~42,000 to 33,000 BP) there were only between 800 and 3,300 humans in all western and central Europe 😳 #Europe #Humanity @Qafzeh
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Speech prosody enhances the neural processing of syntax
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Evolution of “hundred” in Indo-European languages (shared by @JakubMarian )
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As far as the brain is concerned, music does not recruit nor requires the language system
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How Neanderthal language differed from modern human
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Syntax and prediction in language and music
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From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language
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Human cognitive uniqueness ❌ No single trait explains our superior cognitive performance ✔️ Our cognitive uniqueness arises from feedbacks between abilities over three timescales: developmental, cultural evolutionary, and gene–culture coevolutionary
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Bouba and Kiki go compositional
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Very happy to see my paper on prehistoric languages published in @FrontYoungMinds , one of the best initiatives for promoting science among kids. Enjoy and RT (if you liked it) @Qafzeh @FossilHistory @Jamie_Woodward_ @FATAPUERCA @CenterCogArch
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How People Spoke in Prehistory

How were languages spoken by our ancestors in prehistory? Because prehistory is the time before written records, we have no recordings or books from that period. Since time travel is not possible,...

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Subcortical contributions to cognition Very happy to see our recent paper on subcortical syntax () cited by Michael Ullman and colleagues, @ElliotMurphy91
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The Bouba–Kiki effect depends on the sounds' physical properties (with kikiness associated to high tones and boubaness associated to low tones), but not on how the mouth articulates these sounds
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Grammatical gender in languages spoken in and around Europe (from )
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Six-month-old infants with no previous experience with a sign language can extract rules from dynamic linguistic signs in a way that parallels how they process speech signals
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The evolution of language and speech 👆 This is our contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution @Dan_Dediu
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Para estudiantes de filología, lingüística y disciplinas afines, un manual sobre semántica y pragmática que será de gran ayuda: "Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics." 👆 Lo publica @LangSciPress y se puede descargar gratis aquí
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Beethoven scored very low on a genetic test for musical abilities
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Happy to share the preprint version of our paper about the evolution of music under self-domestication forces 😅 It took us almost one year, 150 pages & > 600 references to describe the model in full detail #music #cognitive @PatrickESavage 👇🏻 Highlights
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A cognitive evolution theory of consciousness
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The patterns that children use to extend new meanings to known words are similar to patterns implicated in historical language change 👆 In both cases they are associated with cognitive advantages for learning, remembering, and understanding words
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From language development to language evolution: A unified view of human lexical creativity

Creative extensions of word meaning across time scales rely on a cognitive foundation of knowledge and how things relate.

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Chimpanzee gestural exchanges share temporal structure with human conversations
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Cool: negative words evolve faster than positive words 👆This study estimates cognate replacement rates for 200 concepts in Indo-European languages spanning 6-10 millennia
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Cognitive networks for knowledge modelling: A gentle tutorial for data- and cognitive scientists
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The morphological evolution of language-relevant brain areas
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Evolution of the pronoun “I” in Indo-European languages (thanks to @JakubMarian for sharing!)
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Understanding human cognitive uniqueness 👉there are no individual traits present in humans and absent in other animals that explain our species’ superior performance 👉our proficiency arises through interactions and reinforcement between cognitive domains
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Phonemic correspondences of grapheme <j> in languages spoken in Europe
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Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies
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Crosslinguistically, the alveolar trill [r] is connected with rough textures, whereas the alveolar lateral approximant [l] is connected with smooth texture (regardless of the phonemic status of these sounds in the language)
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Language variation is more likely to occur in populations: - where individuals are not well-connected to each other - that are structured in small communities
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The best, updated (brief) introduction to the neurobiology of language ✅precise descriptions ✅useful resources (e.g. glossary) ✅informative graphics and images 👍Perfect for your students! Awesome piece by @ev_fedorenko @neuranna and @tamaregev
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The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Many brain areas support complex language processing behaviours. In this Review, Fedorenko et al. disentangle the ‘core’ language system as functionally...

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Cultural evolution creates the statistical structure of language
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Increased prosocial human behavior in Prehistory fuelled the full emergence of the human cognitive and behavioral phenotype, including complex languages
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Why we need a gradient approach to word order
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Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song
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The language you speak may shape how you perceive music 👉Speakers of tonal languages discriminate melodies better, but have a disadvantage in beat perception ability
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Language contact rather than environmental factors (altitude) seems to account for the distribution of ejectives and uvulars among the world languages
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Successful language acquisition with minimal directed speech 👉amazing study by @middycasillas , Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson from @MPI_NL about Tseltal Mayan children
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Don't miss this (terrific) opinion paper by @TecumsehFitch In a nutshell: for properly understanding what cognition is, we need first to understand how the single cell stores and processes information #neuroscience #information #brain
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Our theme issue on prehistoric languages is finally out. Enjoy! 👉 Thanks to our collaborators, including @symbolicstorage @stivits @hartmast @Dan_Dediu @airurtzun @AndreeaCalude @davidadger and many others #prehistory #linguistics #anthropology
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This paper made my day 👇 Environmental and linguistic typology of whistled languages ✔️Whistled languages are distributed worldwide (mostly in montainous and forested areas) ✔️ They consist of a melody that imitates modal speech
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Human vs chimp cognition: ✅shared brain networks for relational reasoning, processing speed, and problem solving ❌ specialized brain networks for language (humans) and spatial working memory (chimps)
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How musical training shapes the adult brain #music #neuroscience
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Alicia Guerrero Yeste ha publicado en su magnífico blog un transcripción de la larga entrevista/conversación que tuvimos a propósito de la publicación de mi libro "El origen del lenguaje: de Adán a Babel" por @AlmuzaraLibros Se puede leer aquí 👇
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The human brain might represent a continuous semantic space and use distributed networks to encode not only concepts but also relationships between concepts
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Supercool: Using machine learning to decode animal communication
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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages
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Early words are acquired in similar order across a wide range of languages and cultures
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Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese...

We present a new set of subjective Age of Acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158 nouns, 141 verbs) in seven languages from various language families and cultural settings: American English,...

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An interactive map of the > 3000 languages that are endangered today worldwide
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New 👇 Linguistic and memory correlates of societal variation: A quantitative analysis We found some support for the claim that languages of open societies show more complex syntaxes, while languages of close-knit societies show more complex morphologies
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Shared mechanisms for the processing of rhythm in music and speech
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No evidence of a trade-off between morphological and syntactic complexity 👆Our new paper is out! With David Gil and @cshnican
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Chicken domestication occurred quite recently (no earlier than 3,5 kya) and (perhaps similarly to dog domestication) it might have started with some sort of commensalism
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This piece by @haspelmath is pure gold 👇 Inflection and derivation as traditional comparative concepts Spread it (particularly among your students :-)
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In Spain, genetic differences are larger in the west-east direction (reflecting linguistic/historical boundaries). Also, North-African DNA (reflecting Muslim invasions) is higher among North-Western (Galician) populations
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👇 One of the best review papers I have ever read on how children acquire sign languages (by @DLilloMartin and Jonathan Henner) #SignLanguage #Deaf
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European languages and dialects Source: #linguistics
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Cognitive linguistics vs generative grammar
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Cool: the etymology of "city" in European languages
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Sound symbolism is not inborn, but (slowly) emerges after the first year of life
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Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years 👆🏻 Excellent state-of-the-art by @ChrisStringer65 and colleagues #evolution #Archaeology #humanity
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Categorical perception is a myth (and a scientific meme) 😳Speech categories are gradient... and gradiency is helpful
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A cross-cultural examination of young children’s everyday language experiences ✔️the speech quantity to children is stable across ages ✔️child-directed speech primarily comes from women ❌ no clear differences between WEIRD and non-WEIRD communities
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Dynamics of pitch perception in the auditory cortex
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How our auditory system distinguishes music from speech
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New paper out: "The (Co)Evolution of language and music under Human self-domestication"
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Groundbreaking work by @ElliotMurphy91 and colleagues arguing for a general principle of language design (the Turing–Chomsky Compression principle) that accounts for both syntactic computation and inference computation
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Competence vs performance #linguistics
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Coordinados por Miguel Casas, de la UCA, todas las áreas de Lingüística General de las universidades españolas hemos preparado un escrito de alegaciones al Proyecto de Real Decreto que prevé la desaparición de nuestra área 👇 ¡Difúndelo!
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Alegación al Proyecto de Real Decreto por el que se establece la desaparición del Área de Lingüís...

Alegación al Proyecto de Real Decreto por el que se establecen los ámbitos de conocimiento a efectos de la adscripción de los puestos de trabajo del profesorado universitario Los abajo firmantes,...

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Activation patterns in bilingual children align with those of bilingual adult studies
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Large Language Models construed as (biased) sociolinguistic varieties of a language 👇
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👇 An important paper for understanding the evolution of language 👆cognition, including memory, can be explained by exaptation and expansion of the circuits and algorithms serving bodily functions 🧑‍🔧exploration > cognitive maps > mental travel
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Awesome review paper about how the brain processes music #music #neuroscience
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Speakers of tonal languages outperform speakers of non-tonal language in pitch perception in non-linguistic domains (e.g music)
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New paper out about subcortical syntax ✔️The subcortex subserves core linguistic computations e.g. binary set-formation and categorization 👪 Great collaboration with @ElliotMurphy91 & Koji Hoshi 🗣️Free access @davidpoeppel @ev_fedorenko @GregoryHickok
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👉This is awesome: Language production in 1001 children from 6 continents ✅ positive correlation with age and adult talk to children ❌ no correlation with socioeconomic status, sex, or multilingualism
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The dimensions of morphosyntactic variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right 👆much of the variation between languages can be explained by the order of subjects and objects with verbs and by dependent-marking settings
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Our article "A comparison of basic color terms in Mandarin and Spanish" has been now published in issue in "Color Research and Application" 👉 The paper can be accessed for free via this link:
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A comparison of basic color terms in Mandarin and Spanish

Basic color terms in Spanish and Mandarin.

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Very happy to see published this great paper by @Dan_Dediu which I have edited for @FrontPsychol 👇 Ultraviolet light affects the color vocabulary: evidence from 834 languages
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7 months
Historical linguistics: the survival of words depends on their psycholinguistic properties (via its impact on language production) 👆Words that are acquired earlier in life, more concrete, and more arousing are more likely to survive
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3 years
In just a few months @CambridgeUP will release a whole handbook on the links between working memory and language 👇 The editors' note (including the contents of the book) (chapter 1) can be read here: 👇 More info here:
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1 year
Very interesting special issue on tools for measuring language complexity
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1 year
Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
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10 months
New paper out👇 "Towards an evolutionary account of the changes in the human pitch vocal system" 👆This is a commentary on @RosaGisladottir 's awesome findings on the genetics of voice pitch
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1 year
Evolution of reading and face circuits during the first three years of reading acquisition #reading #dyslexia
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Interjections are not at the margins, but at the very heart of language
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✅boys produce more speech-like vocalizations (protophones) than girls during the first year of life ✅boys are more vulnerable to death early in life and protophones might act as fitness signals aimed to elicit additional caregiver investment
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Human adults and great apes, but not human infants, track natural events as agent-patient relations, a cognitive foundation for syntax.
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6 years
Phonemic inventory of the world's languages (from )
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