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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To make sense of speech, listeners must segment sound streams into pieces. Across languages, people do so based more on consonants than vowels. A new @science.org study investigates the phenomenon via EEG recording in humans & dogs, finding that dogs also show consonant bias in word segmentation.🗣️🐶🧪

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Neural evidence that dogs segment the speech they hear with a humanlike consonant bias

Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Straight into the lion's den! doi.org/10.5964/biol... Fitch warned me about the MERGE hole. After showing the AF-MTG connection in chimps, I saw a need to tie this to the Faculty of Language and its MERGE core. If AF-MTG underpins FLN, its presence in chimps = continuous evolution from our LCA.

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The Arcuate Fascicle Middle Temporal Gyrus Connection in Chimpanzees: A Missing Link in Language Evolution?| Biolinguistics

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Prof. Dr. Asli Ozyurek @asliozyurek.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Looking for a Postdoc position and have a background in bioacoustics and animal cognition? Interested in whether other animals might have something akin to language? Join our team: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home...

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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Super proud of this fabulous team for challenging old comparative frameworks and rethinking what makes language language. Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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The ‘design features’ of language revisited

Language is often regarded as a defining trait of our species, but what are its core properties? In 1960, Hockett published ‘The origin of speech’ enumerating 13 design features presumed to be common ...

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 The Department of Anthropology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy in Wrocław, Poland is looking for a Postdoc in the project "The human white sclera: the role of colouration and contrast in perceiving the eyes of others." Please Share!

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees 1/n 🧵👇

Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59254-8

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Hey Arcuate freaks and geeks! I first contacted Erin in 2019. I was working on my PhD in France on communication correlates of homologous language regions in primates. But what about their interconnections? The article: rdcu.be/eifzU

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Individual variation in the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts vocal and gestural communication

Nature Communications - Here, authors reveal the anatomy of the chimpanzee arcuate fasciculus predicts use of intentional, communicative gestures and sounds. The chimpanzee arcuate is not...

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Exciting! @evfedorenko.bsky.social and coll. @natureportfolio.bsky.social (NatRevNeurosci)'s piece functionally separated a core lang network from a percept.-motor network (+others); and asked for an evo perspective! Here we go: s.gwdg.de/WUPS8h (together with A.D. Friederici)

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