Paul Heggarty Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History LDC Conference Room (Room 135) 3600 Market Street, Suite 810 For the Zoom link, please email: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu. A New Database, Family Tree and Origins Hypothesis for the Indo-European Language Family A recent article in Science* presents a new language database […]
Events
CNI is hosting a Computational and Systems Neuroscience Open House for new graduate students on Thursday, September 7 from 3-5pm. Join us in the lobby of the BRB II/III building (421 Curie Blvd.) for a poster session and reception, and the opportunity to get acquainted with systems and computational research on campus.
Maiken Scott WHYY Why Talking About Science Matters (and How to Do it Well) Think about the last time a non-scientist asked you what you do for a living, or what you’re studying. Did you see their eyes glaze over as you tried to explain? Did they suddenly have to take an […]
Maya Dewhurst, Lancaster University Nasality in Greater Manchester: (Aero)acoustics and variation Variation in voice quality is a socially meaningful phenomenon and plays an important role in acts of identity construction and group membership (Podesva and Callier, 2015). “Nasal voice”, or nasality, specifically, has been found to index a range of social characteristics (Bucholtz, […]