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Lucie Wolters

@luciewolters.bsky.social

PhD student in Cognition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: www.arnonlanguagelab.com. Interested in language evolution, cultural transmission, language learning/acquisition. MSc in Evolution of Language and Cognition, Edinburgh University.

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Lucie Wolters @luciewolters.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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 🎉

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Lucie Wolters @luciewolters.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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.

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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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Lucie Wolters @luciewolters.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Excited to share this paper, and grateful to be part of the team behind it :)

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