Lucie Wolters
@luciewolters.bsky.social
PhD student in Cognition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: https://www.arnonlanguagelab.com/. Interested in language evolution, cultural transmission, language learning/acquisition. MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition, Edinburgh University.
Very happy to have been selected as a runner-up for the Hurford Prize at #EvolangXVI for my talk on how children's narrow learning bottleneck accelerates the emergence of statistical properties of language! Huge congrats to @maisyhallam.bsky.social for an amazing winning talk 🎉
Michael Pleyer@symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd congratulations to @luciewolters.bsky.social and Marco Maolini, the two Runners up for the #EvolangXVI Hurford Prize!
New paper with @inbalarnon.bsky.social and @simonkirby.bsky.social! Learnability pressures drive the emergence of core statistical properties of language–e.g. Zipf's laws–in an iterated sequence learning experiment, with learners’ RTs indicating sensitivity to the emerging sequence information.
Cultural Transmission Promotes the Emergence of Statistical Properties That Support Language Learning
Language is passed across generations through cultural transmission. Prior experimental work, where participants reproduced sets of non-linguistic sequences in transmission chains, shows that this pr...
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Excited to share this paper, and grateful to be part of the team behind it :)
Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 9mo agoOrigins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n