Bayesian Computational Cognitive Scientist, Linguist, Computational Modeller, Software Developer, Buddhist
Joined March 2009
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Mark Ellison retweeted
30 Jul 2022
Congratulations @NickJChater!
29 Jul 2022
Huge congratulations to the recipient of the 23rd David E. Rumelhart Prize, Nicholas Chater!
Visit the Rumelhart Prize page on our website to learn more cognitivesciencesociety.org/…
#CogSci2022 #RumelhartPrize
ALT A slide with a photo of Nicholas Chater and the text "Congratulations Nicholas Chater, recipient of the 2023 David E. Rumelhart Prize."
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31 Jul 2022
Metaphor arises in protolanguage with compositionality selectional restrictions, and is the launching pad for the evolution of grammatical structure. Selectional restrictions transcend holistic vs isolating debate. With @Uta_Reinoehl link.springer.com/article/10…
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29 Mar 2022
Our #languageorigin paper is out
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Gesture communicates better than vocalisation cross-culturally (Australia, Vanuatu) & cross-modally (blind, sighted). Gesture’s success due to its greater #universality @UniKoeln @CoEDLang @UWApsych
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Mark Ellison retweeted
12 May 2020
Absolutely hypnotic
10 May 2020
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Mark Ellison retweeted
16 Mar 2020
People ask me "so what's the project you're working for about?", and this is a nice, lay-man's answer! A short write-up about the ERC funded GramAdapt Project @GramAdapt
16 Mar 2020
GramAdapt Project general introduction! Kaius Sinnemäki and his ERC funded research group develop new methods for comparing the world’s languages in their social contexts to better understand global linguistic diversity and its development. flamma.helsinki.fi/en/group/…
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10 Apr 2019
Native English Speakers - can you help our linguistic study (@uni_mainz): quick, easy, interesting. Just complete some sentences for us. Thanks! - @tmarke & Uta obligator.ics.pw/study2019C.…
Mark Ellison retweeted
8 Apr 2019
A new 50 cent coin for #internationalyearofindigenouslanguages launched today! theconversation.com/the-14-i…
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Mark Ellison retweeted
15 Dec 2018
No evidence that parachute use prevents death & trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomised controlled trial-“trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps” bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k509…
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21 Apr 2018
One of my favs from this Evolang. x.com/kristian_tylen/status/…
20 Apr 2018
Got a lot of great feedback for my @EvolangConf talk on experimental investigations of early human symbolic behavior. Now @sciencemagazine made a feature about our work: sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/…
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Mark Ellison retweeted
13 Mar 2018
New paper on the origin and expansion of Pama-Nyungan, the world's largest hunter-gatherer language family, is just out in Nature Ecology & Evolution - nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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Mark Ellison retweeted
28 Feb 2018
John McWhorter with Colbert on Late Show:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RSH48E…
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Mark Ellison retweeted
16 Feb 2018
New in @EvolHumBehav
Applying the Cultural Ratchet to a Social Artefact: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of a Language Game
with: @tmarke @fusaroli @kristian_tylen @boyautocrat @UWApsych @interact_minds ehbonline.org/article/S1090-…
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26 Jun 2017
Paper out (with L Miceli) in Language on bias behind bilingual-led loss of shared vocabulary in related languages. muse.jhu.edu/article/662882
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10 Mar 2017
Today's offering from Melanie Phillips just the latest of a number of historical interlopes. I applaud her efforts to breakup of the UK. x.com/DJMHarland/status/8400…
Mark Ellison retweeted
14 Jan 2017
#WorldEconomicForum worry-fest 2017: extreme #weather, involuntary #migration, #water crises, large-scale #Terror attacks and #DataTheft
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Mark Ellison retweeted
9 Nov 2016
BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.
USA: Hold my beer.
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10 Oct 2016
#qanda Imagine if going to your neighbour's for help in a crisis left you facing indefinite imprisonment. That's what we do.
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10 Oct 2016
#QandA rapidly returning non-refugees to their country of origin would be better at undercutting people smugglers than indefinite detention