Alan Langus
@alanlangus.bsky.social
Language, Cognition and Development | University of Potsdam BabyLab | Estonian 🇪🇪 | 📍Berlin
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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
We were delighted to meet all other grantees in Hannover & we’re looking forward to see you again in two years.
#VolkswagenStiftung #kickoff
March 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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
We were delighted to meet all other grantees in Hannover & we’re looking forward to see you again in two years.
#VolkswagenStiftung #kickoff
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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 ☺️
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February 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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.
The origin of color categories | PNAS
To what extent does concept formation require language? Here, we exploit color to
address this question and ask whether macaque monkeys have color ...
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January 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It would seem that even the basic color words in humans have no corresponding natural kinds in the visual system.
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Check out this incredible video from 1941 that details the physics of visual perception using the mechanics of the eyeball from Karl Kurt Bosse
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January 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Check out this incredible video from 1941 that details the physics of visual perception using the mechanics of the eyeball from Karl Kurt Bosse
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Hands down the best explanation of the concept of entropy and how it relates to "information". youtu.be/89Mq6gmPo0s
I don't believe the 2nd law of thermodynamics. (The most uplifting video I'll ever make.)
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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December 4, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Hands down the best explanation of the concept of entropy and how it relates to "information". youtu.be/89Mq6gmPo0s
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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/...
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November 28, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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/...
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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 🧵👇
*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 🧵👇
November 27, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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 🧵👇
*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 🧵👇
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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...
Language Cycles
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November 23, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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...
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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.
www.bewitched.com/demo/rainbow...
This little visualization scans incoming posts and draws a stripe every time it finds a color word.
November 19, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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.
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!
Active Playful Learning
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November 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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!
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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...
Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation
It is well established that infants use various cues to find words within fluent speech from about 7 to 8 months of age. Research suggests that two main mechanisms support infants' speech segmentatio...
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November 14, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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!
RoSaL – LanguageCycles
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November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM
“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.
Among the good things of this last November: our institute hosted Dr. Alan Langus @alanlangus.bsky.social who gave a great talk on rhythm as a pervasive feature of human life and cognition, and it’s role in language acquisition in infancy.
Thanks for visiting us Alan!!
Thanks for visiting us Alan!!
December 4, 2023 at 6:08 PM
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.
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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!
October 1, 2023 at 8:39 PM
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.
Linguists Hear an Accent Begin
Residents of an overwintering station in Antarctica provided linguists with evidence of the first small changes in speech that may signal the development of a new accent.
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September 30, 2023 at 8:53 AM
An new accent is born.
From prehistoric laptops to robots playing basketball at the Researchers’ Night at Uni Tartu.
September 29, 2023 at 8:05 PM
From prehistoric laptops to robots playing basketball at the Researchers’ Night at Uni Tartu.