Dan Dediu

Investigador ICREA

ORCID: 0000-0002-0704-6365

Scopus Author ID: 18036646400

Researcher ID: E-3279-2012

Knowledge area: Lingüística General

ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona

Research group: CLiC - Centre de Llenguatge i Computació

My Profile

I am a computer scientist/software engineer turned linguist (after some training in psychology, neurobiology and evolution). Therefore, it should come as no surprise that most of my scientific work ... + info

Academic training

Mathematics and Computer Science . Department of Mathematics, University of Bucharest . 06/1997 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Linguistics (language evolution) . College of Humanities and Social Science, The University of Edinburgh . 27/06/2007 . (Ph.D.)

Neurobiology and Behavior . Department of Biology, University of Bucharest . 02/2002 . (Official Master)

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches . Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon . 12/04/2021 . (Specialized Training)

Teaching imparted

Empirical Linguistics (University Master's Degree) - Language and Cognitive Science Postgraduate Program (CCiL) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Stats: what it really is and why should you care? (University Master's Degree) - Master Sciences Cognitives (M2) - Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Foundations of language (University Master's Degree) - Master Sciences Cognitives (M2) - Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Interdisciplinary applications of linguistic concepts (co-teaching with Prof. Cedric Boecks) (University Master's Degree) - Language and Cognitive Science Postgraduate Program (CCiL) - Universidad de Barcelona.

Lines of Activity (Teaching and Research)

Statistics and data analysis

Linguistic diversity: patterns and mechanisms

Language origins and evolution

Linguistic diversity and language change: quantitative approaches

Non-linguistic factors affecting language

Vocal tract anatomy and phonetic/phonological diversity

Relevant publications

Josserand, Mathilde; Meeussen, Emma; Majid, Asifa; Dediu, Dan (2021). Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception. Scientific Reports, 11(1), p. 19095 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2045-2322

Dediu, D.; Moisik, S. R. (2019). Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change. Glossa-a Journal Of General Linguistics, 4(1), pp. 7 - 7 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2397-1835

Coupé, C.; Oh, Y.; Dediu, D.; Pellegrino, F. (2019). Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche. Science Advances, 5(9), pp. eaaw2594 - eaaw2594 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2375-2548

Blasi, D. E.; Moran, S.; Moisik, S. R.; Widmer, P.; Dediu, D.; Bickel, B. (2019). Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration. Science, 363(6432), pp. eaav3218 - eaav3218 . https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav3218 . ISSN: 0036-8075

Dediu, D.; Levinson, S. C. (2018). Neanderthal language revisited: not only us. Current Opinion In Behavioral Sciences, 21, pp. 49 - 55 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.001 . ISSN: 2352-1546

Conferences and Participations in Congresses

Dediu, D. (2021). Culture, environment and genes interact in complex ways to "nudge" language change and influence linguistic diversity. (Invited conference) . International Symposium "Molecular Anthropology of Language: Results and Prospects", NCCR Evolving Language, University of Zürich . Zürich . SWITZERLAND

Dediu, D. (2017). Variation is not noise: from genetics to language change and diversity [Plenary]. (Invited conference) . 12th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT12), Canberra, Australia . Canberra . AUSTRALIA

Dediu, D. (2019). Glimpses into the "deep" past: what can vocal tract anatomy say about lost linguistic diversity?. (Presentation of communication) . "Prehistoric languages beyond the limits of comparative linguistics" workshop, SLE 2019, Leipzig University, Germany . Leipzig . GERMANY

Mathilde Josserand; Serge Caparos; François Pellegrino; Dan Dediu (2022). The colour lexicon is shaped by environment and biology: comparing Himba and French colour perception. (Presentation of communication) . Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) . Kanazawa . JAPAN

Rémi Anselme; François Pellegrino; Dan Dediu (2022). R you sure that your /r/ is trilled? A methodological caveat. (Presentation of communication) . Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) . Kanazawa . JAPAN

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