Happy to officially announce that @alanlangus.bsky.social and I were awarded a @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social Open Up grant to investigate infants’ minds🧠 We were delighted to meet all other grantees in Hannover & we’re looking forward to see you again in two years. #VolkswagenStiftung #kickoff

Did you ever wonder how on earth it is possible for people in Africa to speak up to 12 languages fluently? Our new study 🎉shows that the seeds of multilingualism in Africa are planted early. Infants 👶growing up in Ghana hear between 2 and 6 languages on a regular/daily basis. 1/3 ☺️

It would seem that even the basic color words in humans have no corresponding natural kinds in the visual system.

Check out this incredible video from 1941 that details the physics of visual perception using the mechanics of the eyeball from Karl Kurt Bosse pennstateoffice365-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/person...

Hands down the best explanation of the concept of entropy and how it relates to "information". youtu.be/89Mq6gmPo0s

Several PhD scholarships are available for joining the IDEALAB, an int. Grad School. Projects are carried out at 2 sites, e.g. Potsdam and Groningen or Sydney. Topics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Language Acquisition and Clinical Linguistics. phd-idealab.com/application/...

Humans use language to express thoughts primarily built around the basic agent-patient causal structure *who does what to whom* Is this a structure of language or a structure of thought? Does it exist outside language? A new wave of exciting papers speak to this question. A 🧵👇

What a fantastic morning! Kaffee, a woolen blanket, and the newest additions to The Language Circle Video Library online. Enjoy your days, fellow scientists: youtube.com/@languagecyc...

See the colors of BlueSky, live! www.bewitched.com/demo/rainbow... This little visualization scans incoming posts and draws a stripe every time it finds a color word.

Just attended Kathy Hirsh-Pasek's @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social PINA colloquium talk about the Active Playful Learning program: activeplayfullearning.com. Tons of evidence on how playful learning fosters the 6 C's: Collaboration, Communication, Content, Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Confidence!

Marimon et al. (2024): German-learning infants rely on prosodic cues than transitional probs for speech seg'n by 6mos; infants showed no seg'n when prosodic cues absent, highlighting early imptance of lang-specific prosody > stat'l cues #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

“The Rhythms of Speech and Language” preprint (CUP 2025). Proud to be part of it!

Such a great pleasure to visit one of the most exciting baby labs in the world. Thank you @ljubapi.bsky.social and @jrhochmann.bsky.social for having me.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of #Picasso’s death, Picasso Museum Paris invited #SophieCalle whose work relates to disappearance. A real success! (An with « the color blind » which belongs to Lyon Contemporary Art Museum!

An new accent is born.

From prehistoric laptops to robots playing basketball at the Researchers’ Night at Uni Tartu.