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Anthropologists Trace Human Origins Back To One Large Goat
In what is sure to be a more cited paper than Gould and Lewontin (1979), Douglas Ochs at Columbia University, together with a team of internationally renowned scientists (and probably a few...
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So, I got a request from a friend of mine to make an abstract on the fly for a poster for Friday. I stayed up until 3am and banged this out. Tonight, I hope to write the poster justifying it into...
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Clever Corvid
Continuing with the theme of ravens, I’d thought I’d quickly point out this pretty cool video of a crow snowboarding down a roof using a small disc it found. When it gets to the bottom, the crow goes...
View ArticleHow to Cite Blogs
I was perusing the backlogs of the ecology blog Oikos, when I ran into this post on how to cite blogs. As we pride ourselves here at Replicated Typo on bring changers-of-the-field, movers of literary...
View ArticleEvolang Previews: The Evolution of Morphological Agreement
Evolang is busy this year – 4 parallel sessions and over 50 posters. We’ll be positing a series of previews to help you decide what to go and see. If you’d like to post a preview of your work, get in...
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Crows
I was sitting around on a park bench somewhere between Shibuya and Shinjuku, killing time between editing my talk slides and actually going to Evolang in Kyoto. I had worked 17 hours on the computer...
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Comic suggests ‘putting down’ old physicists-turned-linguists
I seem to be the comic poster on this blog, but hey – Mark Liberman often quotes comics on Languagelog, and it’s before breakfast for me. So I feel ok with that. (Update: I did beat Mark Liberman! By...
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The evolution of numeral classifier constructions
I went to a good talk almost a year ago at the Interfaces III conference at the University of Kent, and I said I’d write about it, but I never got around to it. The slides have been on my desktop ever...
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Visualising Language Typology – Plotting WALS with Heat Maps
This is a side project I’ve been working on with Rory Turnbull and Alexis Palmer I recently presented a paper with the same title at the European Association of Computational Linguistics conference, in...
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Heatmaps and Spurious Correlations
Today’s XKCD was good enough to share. As both Sean’s spurious correlations and my pixel maps are relevant, I figure some of you might get a good laugh, too. As always, the alt-text might be the best...
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