Mapping Linguistic Phylogeny to Politics
Note: Most of the content in this post is refuted wonderfully in the comment section by one of the original authors of the paper. I highly recommend reading the comments, if you’re going to read this...
View ArticleThe Bog
If you like wading through deposits of dead animal material, then you should go over and visit Richard Littauer’s new blog, The Bog. Having been exposed to his writings on both this blog, and through...
View ArticleErro Replicado
Replicated Typo is, as the name suggests, interested in transmission and change of cultural phenomena. I’m also particularly interested in bilingualism. That’s why I have to point out my recent...
View ArticleThe end of universals?
Woah, I just read some of the responses to Dunn et al. (2011) “Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals” (language log here, Replicated Typo coverage here)....
View ArticleFun language evolution experiment!
Do a fun language experiment!* You can take part in a pilot experiment about language learning: It takes about 8 minutes (and is NOT an iterated learning experiment, although it looks a bit like one)....
View ArticleCompositionality and Bilingualism
Last week I put up a link to an online experiment. Here’s the results! You can still do the experiment first, if you like, here. Source code and raw results at the bottom. Languages evolve over time...
View ArticleSpurious correlation bonanza to mark Replicated Typo 2.0 reaching 100,000 hits
Replicated Typo 2.0 has reached 100,000 hits! The most popular search term that leads visitors here is ‘What makes humans unique?’ and part of the answer has to be our ability to transmit our culture....
View ArticleThe power of diversity: New Scientist recognises the growing work on social...
A feature article in last week’s New Scientist asks why there is so much linguistic diversity present in the world, and what are the forces that drive it. The article reads like a who’s who of the...
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