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View article: The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages Open
Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. In this study, this lexical research is built on with an experiment with speakers of 28 diff…
View article: Adapting to Individual Differences: An Experimental Study of Language Evolution in Heterogeneous Populations
Adapting to Individual Differences: An Experimental Study of Language Evolution in Heterogeneous Populations Open
Variations in language abilities, use, and production style are ubiquitous within any given population. While research on language evolution has traditionally overlooked the potential importance of such individual differences, these can ha…
View article: The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages
The alveolar trill is perceived as jagged/rough by speakers of different languages Open
Typological research shows that across languages, trilled [r] sounds are more common in adjectives describing rough as opposed to smooth surfaces. Here, we follow up on this lexical research with an experiment with speakers of 28 different…
View article: Dental fricatives: Patterning, evolution, and factors affecting a rare class of speech sounds
Dental fricatives: Patterning, evolution, and factors affecting a rare class of speech sounds Open
The (inter-)dental non-sibilant fricatives, consonants articulated with the tongue tip or blade against or between the front teeth, are rare among the world’s languages but, nevertheless, are present in the sound inventories of some of the…
View article: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Constructing Care Delivery Pathways From Electronic Health Care Databases to Support Integrated Care in Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review of Quantification and Visualization Methods
Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Constructing Care Delivery Pathways From Electronic Health Care Databases to Support Integrated Care in Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review of Quantification and Visualization Methods Open
Background Electronic health care databases are increasingly used for informing clinical decision-making. In long-term care, linking and accessing information on health care delivered by different providers could improve coordination and h…
View article: Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Constructing Care Delivery Pathways From Electronic Health Care Databases to Support Integrated Care in Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review of Quantification and Visualization Methods (Preprint)
Toward an Interdisciplinary Approach to Constructing Care Delivery Pathways From Electronic Health Care Databases to Support Integrated Care in Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review of Quantification and Visualization Methods (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Electronic health care databases are increasingly used for informing clinical decision-making. In long-term care, linking and accessing information on health care delivered by different providers could improve coordination and …
View article: Sequence variants affecting voice pitch in humans
Sequence variants affecting voice pitch in humans Open
The genetic basis of the human vocal system is largely unknown, as are the sequence variants that give rise to individual differences in voice and speech. Here, we couple data on diversity in the sequence of the genome with voice and vowel…
View article: Ultraviolet light affects the color vocabulary: evidence from 834 languages
Ultraviolet light affects the color vocabulary: evidence from 834 languages Open
It has been suggested that people living in regions with a high incidence of ultraviolet light, particularly in the B band (UV-B), suffer a phototoxic effect during their lifetime. This effect, known as lens brunescence, negatively impacts…
View article: What’s in the <i>r</i>? A review of the usage of the <i>r</i> symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA
What’s in the <i>r</i>? A review of the usage of the <i>r</i> symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA Open
What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of the symbols for the alveolar trills ( r ) and taps ( ) among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971. We begin by sketching the history of the vario…
View article: The Colour Lexicon Is Shaped by Environment and Biology: Comparing Himba and French Colour Perception
The Colour Lexicon Is Shaped by Environment and Biology: Comparing Himba and French Colour Perception Open
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View article: A Parallel Model of Musical Research and Creation
A Parallel Model of Musical Research and Creation Open
Stages of both processes – research and creation – are depicted and proposed as tools for understanding the uniqueness of the musical triad: musicology, interpretation, composition. Although the borderlines between them are fuzzy and the i…
View article: The <i>bouba/kiki</i> effect is robust across cultures and writing systems
The <i>bouba/kiki</i> effect is robust across cultures and writing systems Open
The bouba/kiki effect—the association of the nonce word bouba with a round shape and kiki with a spiky shape—is a type of correspondence between speech sounds and visual properties with potentially deep implications for the evolution of sp…
View article: Identifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives /f/, /s/, and /ʃ/ from acoustic cues using machine learning
Identifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives /f/, /s/, and /ʃ/ from acoustic cues using machine learning Open
This paper shows that machine learning techniques are very successful at classifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives [f], [s], and [ʃ] using a small set of acoustic cues. From a data sample of 6320 tokens of read sentences…
View article: Tone and genes: New cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the “derived” allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin
Tone and genes: New cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the “derived” allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin Open
While it is generally accepted that language and speech have genetic foundations, and that the widespread inter-individual variation observed in many of their aspects is partly driven by variation in genes, it is much less clear if differe…
View article: Interindividual Variation Refuses to Go Away: A Bayesian Computer Model of Language Change in Communicative Networks
Interindividual Variation Refuses to Go Away: A Bayesian Computer Model of Language Change in Communicative Networks Open
Treating the speech communities as homogeneous entities is not an accurate representation of reality, as it misses some of the complexities of linguistic interactions. Inter-individual variation and multiple types of biases are ubiquitous …
View article: Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin -- full data and analysis
Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin -- full data and analysis Open
Full data and analysis scripts supporting the paper "Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin". This is composed of a single ZI…
View article: Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin -- full data and analysis
Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin -- full data and analysis Open
Full data and analysis scripts supporting the paper "Tone and genes: new cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the "derived" allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin". This is composed of a single ZI…