Aislinn Keogh
@mandolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist, musician, and aspiring adrenaline junkie 🧗 Postdoc at Durham University, researching children's role in cultural evolution
@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈
https://aislinnkeogh.github.io/
@durhampsych.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social
(she/her) 🌈
https://aislinnkeogh.github.io/
We investigate the influence of two communicative pressures: production favours reuse of more easily articulated sounds, comprehension favours distinctiveness of word forms. Competition between these individual-level mechanisms can give rise to emergent structural properties of language.
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We investigate the influence of two communicative pressures: production favours reuse of more easily articulated sounds, comprehension favours distinctiveness of word forms. Competition between these individual-level mechanisms can give rise to emergent structural properties of language.
Despite green being my favourite colour, I prefer the white/blue cover
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Despite green being my favourite colour, I prefer the white/blue cover
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
@maisyhallam.bsky.social Please advise
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
@maisyhallam.bsky.social Please advise
Well, one thing's for sure: it certainly lived up to the title and abstract 🙄
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well, one thing's for sure: it certainly lived up to the title and abstract 🙄
"Steven Pinker is perhaps the nicest person I know in academia" was truly a bold opening statement. You were doing God's work in the chat!
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Steven Pinker is perhaps the nicest person I know in academia" was truly a bold opening statement. You were doing God's work in the chat!
I suspect @maisyhallam.bsky.social will agree with this pretty viscerally
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I suspect @maisyhallam.bsky.social will agree with this pretty viscerally
Just to be the exception to this, my husband and I originally got together (when I was 26 and he was 30) by me telling him "I fancy you". You just gotta lay it out very explicitly for some folks, y'know 🤣
September 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Just to be the exception to this, my husband and I originally got together (when I was 26 and he was 30) by me telling him "I fancy you". You just gotta lay it out very explicitly for some folks, y'know 🤣