yay!! congratulations!!

sounds fun! I am definitely a noob here :)

and thank you! :)

so it does!!

I totally see that perspective, and I do worry you might be right (that it's a way of staying in the game, I mean). Though this tactic, if that's what it is, is good for absolutely no one in the long term.

💯💯💯

And...now you've got me started....I have started to wonder about the relevance/importance of some of the RQs being asked in my field. My cynical view is that sometimes a question is asked because it's quick and easy to answer, not because it's theoretically interesting or important.

Even as someone who counts things, I am totally with you here. Good, interesting, thorough work often takes time, patience, and a human eye/ear/brain (in fact, multiple human eyes/ears/brains!). Fast and easy science does seem to be taking over.

My commentary says things I've been wanting to say for a while. If we limit early communication to the counting-up of words, we miss a lot of data. Infants use a lot more than "conventional phonology" when learning how to speak, and some of my favourite examples of this are included in this paper 🤓

This is a commentary on an original review paper by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social, Beyza Sümer &
@asliozyurek.bsky.social who argue for an integrated model of speech, gesture and sign.

This is great, thanks!