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Tom Sawallis

@TomSawallis

Linguistic phonetician, working on language evolution

Joined November 2019
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Join me in helping save lives by giving food. Make a difference today by donating to the World Food Program USA. tinyurl.com/y27er3mf No human should starve. Period.


Midwest and Southern Tornado Outbreak Relief Fund gofund.me/1b1e40d4 Kentucky got the worst of it, but don't forget there are others hurting, too.


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Don’t miss out! We still have a few #bonobo paintings available for sale online at the Ape Initiative Store 🎨

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My story on how Ancient genomes offer rare glimpse of Neanderthal family groups sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/a…


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A pandemic of linguicide has been decimating minority languages all over the world at an alarming rate. On this map, each red dot represents an endangered language. Read more in #AcousticsToday ow.ly/Fg0x50F6OuH Map used with permission, copyright © @theEthnologue

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An updated summary of the Dual Stream Model of Speech and Language Processing. osf.io/uds7c via @OSFramework (Includes syntax!)


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Exchanging neural information between the brains of two different species nature.com/articles/s4159… 👉Single words processed by the guinea pig auditory system are intelligible to humans who receive the processed information via a cochlear implant

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Our YouTube channel is up and running! You can view all the keynote talks from the 2021 conference here: youtube.com/channel/UCoK9o…


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How does literacy affect speech processing? Not by enhancing cortical responses to speech, but by promoting connectivity of acoustic-phonetic and graphomotor cortices. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


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It's finally here! My 1st first-author article has been published!!🥳 I'm so incredibly excited (and also a lil nervous) to share my research using eye-tracking to explore biases in social attention in chimps & bonobos! Free download access with this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1dBWL_4tk-Ukg


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"[A]ccounts of language change that appeal primarily to errors in childhood language acquisition are very weakly supported by the historical data" in How individuals change language dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…


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Don’t miss this exciting new paper from @LauraSimoneLew and colleagues in which they investigate how socioecology shapes biases in social attention in bonobos and chimpanzees: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


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The lexical distribution of labial-velar stops as a window into the linguistic prehistory of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa muse.jhu.edu/article/786573

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This manuscript was rejected by 9 journals, all desk rejections. Some said its too interdisciplinary, some said its scope is too narrow. Finally, accepted. Congratulations @Arunita_13! arxiv.org/abs/1903.11946


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Are you an educator looking for new K-12 educational content that covers core #STEM curriculum and meets #NGSS standards? Check out the Ape Initiative Education Zone for free resources and science lessons! apeinitiative.org/education-zone

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The Normative Animals online conference (organized by @KristinAndrewz, Simon Fitzpatrick, and yours truly) is two weeks away! Check out our awesome program & register here: evolutionofnormativity.wordpress.com/normativeanima… 🧵


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How did Neanderthals and other ancient humans learn to count? Article in @Nature on the ERC project QUANTA looking into the evolution of number systems. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig @univbordeaux @INEE_CNRS @CNRSAquitaine @SapienCE_UiB nature.com/articles/d4158…


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Announcing release of lifeLUCID: large corpus of spontaneous speech in interaction (diapix task) with talkers aged 8 to 80. Available for research purposes at: reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854350/. Many other corpora available: valeriehazan.com/wp/index.php/r…. @outituomainen @SHaPS_UCL #diapixUK

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