Reminder: just a few days left to submit to our #evolang workshop on how we define/delineate language

First paper of my PhD published w/ Connie de Vos and Bart de Boer: “The effect of cultural transmission on shared sign language persistence” out in the Cultural Evolution special issue in Prime Atlantic Limited edited by @JJTehrani 🤗 1/4

Come hear how made-up languages help us study language evolution, acquisition, and syntax in the lab...

Our poster on Silent Gesture experiments IVCSLP, a virtual congress in sign language research, where posters are exhibited to the general public in 6 locations in Uruguay🇺🇾+online: ivcslp20.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/pos… The really cool thing: Posters are translated into IS and LSU via QR codes

Our paper on onomatopoeia in child-directed lang and children's word learning now out in Developmental Science! Work with with Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco Margherita Murgiano Elizabeth Wonnacott @ChloeRuMarshall Pamela Perniss and Susan Goldin-Meadow dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

New #openAccess paper out w/ Yohei Oseki & Jennifer Culbertson where we uncover cognitive biases underlying cross-linguistic patterns of number-case morpheme order. European Research Council (ERC) @UoE_CLE ISLE NCCR Evolving Language Highlights & link to paper ⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please join us for the next UCL Language & Cognition seminar on Wed 17 March 1pm UK time, given by Dr Yasamin Motamedi Yasamin Motamedi from Centre for Language Evolution @UoE_CLE. Talk title: “Evolving language in the lab: evidence from the manual modality.” DM for Zoom link.

This new study, led by @fionamkirton, shows that constituent order in silent gesture is mediated by the perspective of the producer and how they construe an event. With Simon Kirby @kennysmithed Jennifer Culbertson academic.oup.com/jole/advance-a… (no access? dm for full version!)

check out the preprint of our position paper “Why we need a gradient approach to word order” Natalia Levshina @[email protected] & I are excited to share the range of methods and approaches represented by our collaborators, and we welcome feedback!

Available to watch now! My contribution to a five-part essay series exploring what it is like to be deaf in 21st century Britain. The Essay, My Deaf World - Belonging BBC Three with subtitles, voice by Kaajel and #BSL #belonging bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…

Pls RT:We are looking for 3-4 year old children to participate online in a study of language development.

Situating Language in the Real-World: target paper and commentaries discuss #language (spoken/signed) as multimodal and situated in face-to-face social interactions Margherita Murgiano Yasamin Motamedi Karen Emmorey now on Bluesky Penny Pexman @MarcusPerlman Mike Kaschak journalofcognition.org/collections/sp…

New preprint with Yasamin Motamedi Lucie Wolters Danielle Naegeli⁷ Marieke Schouwstra. We show in an online gesture experiment naturalness, systematicity & regularisation coming together to shape basic word order patterns as they're improvised, learned & transmitted psyarxiv.com/7ed89/

Another new preprint with Yasamin Motamedi Lucie Wolters Marieke Schouwstra using online gesture experiment with English & Turkish participants. We show natural word order is not affected by iconicity, but is affected by the presence of a conventional lexicon! psyarxiv.com/u5amg

New paper out, with Yasamin Motamedi, Danielle Naegeli⁷, Lucy Wolters, and Simon Kirby doi.org/10.1016/j.cogn…

New preprint from the Language and Cognition Lab shows that caregivers use #iconicity when talking to their children about absent objects Yasamin Motamedi Pamela Perniss Yan Gu Viktor Kewenig Elizabeth Wonnacott @ChloeRuMarshall @bea_grzyb Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco: psyarxiv.com/8rdmj

New paper with Yasamin Motamedi Lucie Wolters Marieke Schouwstra We find that previously observed word order alternations in the improvised gestural modality disappear in the presence of a conventionalised lexicon, but are not affected by iconicity. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1…