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Sean Roberts

@aucksAdventures

Evolutionary linguist. Seeker of strange correlations. https://teapaw.org/t.co/8uKcfALfEb

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Joined March 2010
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New paper with Stephanie Rennick (@EpicureanCure) and colleagues: We created the largest corpus of RPG video game dialogue ever in order to examine gender bias. We found that male characters are given twice as much dialogue as female characters. royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Gender bias in video game dialogue

Gender bias in video game dialogue

Abstract. Gender biases in fictional dialogue are well documented in many media. In film, television and books, female characters tend to talk less than ma

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Had a wonderful time yesterday at Storyville Books’ Winter Book Fair and hanging out with Deadstar Publishing. Thank you to everyone who braved the weather to pick up a copy of Gwyllion!
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Winners of our #LanguageEvolves competition in Gwyllion magazine today! In an alternative past, a Welsh Sign Language is under threat (Y Ddwyleg by Olivia Cowhig). And in a possible future, Welsh becomes an object of desire (Arianwen by @Girl_Like_Sarah) gwyllionmagazine.com/product…
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Happy Halloween! Issue 9 has crept its way out of the casket, having gorged itself on the blood, sweat and ink of its contributors. A keen Gwyllion hunter may be able to spot it out in the wild - if it doesn’t spot you first! 👻 Stakes at the ready: gwyllionmagazine.com/product…
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I just can't keep it under wraps any longer - cover reveal for issue 9! ⚔️🥳
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For our new @PLOSONE paper, Dominik Hetjens and I had the great opportunity to collaborate with @stepstone_de to study the effects of #gender-sensitive language on user interactions with job listings: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
Effects of gender sensitive language in job listings: A study on real-life user interaction

Effects of gender sensitive language in job listings: A study on real-life user interaction

The possible impact of gender-sensitive language on readers is among the most controversially debated issues in linguistics and beyond. Previous studies have suggested that there is an effect of...

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The proceedings of the last EvoLang conference are out👇 evolang2024.github.io/procee…
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🦸🏽‍♂️ Who are the linguistic X-men? Find out in the Best Of Babel 📖 Read @hanachronism's investigation in full at cloud.3dissue.com/18743/4145… 🎁 Fancy a free Best Of Babel issue? Get in touch at [email protected]
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Super happy this is finally out! Our multidisciplinary Special Issue in @IntJPrimatology: "Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Apes, Hominins, Humans, and Birds", edited by Daniela Rodrigues, Nathalie Gontier, @hartmast and me. Short Thread 🧵 link.springer.com/journal/10…
The title page of the "International Journal of Primatology" Special Issue

ALT The title page of the "International Journal of Primatology" Special Issue

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Proud to announce that Eleanor McAdam @e_f_mcadam has won our English #LanguageEvolves competition to write a SciFi story about language evolution. Sue Burke chose 'Breach' as a "powerful" story of two AIs in a battle of words. Published in Interzone soon correlation-machine.com/lang…
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Olivia Cowhig yw enillydd y gystadleuaeth Cymraeg #IaithYnEsblygu gyda 'Y Ddwyleg: Iaith o Gymru Arall'. Mewn gorffennol damcaniaethol, mae arwyddiaith Cymraeg yn esblygu, ond yn cael ei bygwrth gan agwedd iaith llym. Yn cael ei cyhoeddi yn @GwyllionMag yn fuan.
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Mae ein barnydd, Gwyneth Lewis (cyn fardd cenedlaethol Cymru) yn dweud "Mae darllen y Ddwyleg fel dod ar draws cerdd newydd am y tro cyntaf: mae angen craffu ar yr egwyddorion ieithyddol a delweddol, ac mae gwneud hynny’n agor byd newydd."
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A bonus story by Sarah McCreadie @Girl_Like_Sarah will also appear in @GwyllionMag magazine. Sarah presents the challenge of learning Welsh in a new light: as a romantic adventure.
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Over 100 stories were submitted to our competition, and we've learned a lot. Thanks to everyone who got involved from all of us in the Language Evolves team: Hannah Little, @hanachronism, Kateryna Krykoniuk, and Cat Silvey @silveycat
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🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 It’s common for cross-cultural research to be conducted in a second language: a national majority language or lingua franca. But research among the Hadza, published today in @PNASNexus, shows second languages can bias results. 🧵/14 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/a…
Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza

Foreign-language effects in cross-cultural behavioral research: Evidence from the Tanzanian Hadza

Abstract. Behavioral research in traditional subsistence populations is often conducted in a non-native language. Recent studies show that non-native langu

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Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Programming for Corpus Linguistics with Python and Dataframes by Daniel Keller Free access available until 10 June. cup.org/4bT9Agx #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics
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