limorraviv.bsky.social
Group leader LEADS @MPI_NL & Lecturer @cSCAN_UofG ➡️ Language Evolution; Cultural Evolution; Animal & Human Cognition; Open Science; DON'T DREAM IT - BE IT!
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Special thanks to @simonkirby.bsky.social for designing a superb cover for the handbook. Simon’s work has inspired Limor and me a great deal, and it meant a lot to us to involve him in this volume
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The volume consists of over 30 chapters, and features over twice as many contributors. It is supremely inter-disciplinary. Huge thanks to each and everyone of them for making this possible 🙏
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Reading through the chapters made me wish I had had such a volume when I entered the field.
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we also restricted our attention on those that are empirically tractable (sorry to the ‘Chomskyan’ linguists if they feel left out)
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We put together this volume hoping that it would help newcomers in the field assess their analytical options. We crucially did not try to illustrate all the interesting hypotheses regarding how human language evolved (that would require more than one volume),
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we also commissioned multiple chapters offering complementary methods for particularly controversial or complex topics, so readers can weigh the pros and cons of each
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We tried to do justice to the many facets of the field (if you think we failed to represent an approach, drop us a line; we really thought hard about this, but it’s a fast-changing field)
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We are so grateful to everyone for sticking to the plan and delivering chapters that, while not boringly uniform, all have the same shape:
If this is the specific problem concerning language evolution you are interested in, here is how to test your hypothesis experimentally.
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We managed to convince a stellar cast of both leading figures and rising stars in the field to team up and spell out which specific experimental method could shed light on specific questions regarding language evolution 🧪
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So exciting to finally see this out! Thank you all! :)
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February 2024
A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures.
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January 2024
Debunking the Santa myth: The process and aftermath of becoming skeptical about Santa.
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2/13
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Uuhhh interesting!! Happy to chat :))
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Omg amazing news!! Congratulations Niel!! 🥳🥳☺️🥂🥂🌟🌟❤️❤️👏👏