Ben Ambridge
@Benambridge
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Professor (Psychology/Child language, University of Manchester)
Sale, Greater Manchester
Joined February 2011
I made a map of EVERY LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD (...Atlas of Language Structures) and you can download it for FREE here in A0 or 2-A0 size PDF: Ask your local print-shop to run one off for you! Thanks Matthew Dryer, @haspelmath & team!
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RT @panmacmillan: 'A fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart journey into the storytelling brain' - Will Storr, bestselling author of Th…
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@theNineofClubs @kanishkamisra There seems to be a problem with the First Language/Sage website at the moment but, when it's working, my target article and the response to commentators are both available free open access:
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Nearly missed this as I'm trying to wean myself off X and onto the other place, but wow!! How often does a study come along that vindicates experimentally a claim you've made only theoretically?!
as is probably clear in the abstract, the framing in this work was heavily influenced by @Benambridge’s 2020 paper ( and the responses to it, including a response to the responses! I encourage everyone to read these!
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Well Twitter/X on my phone is doing something weird about authentication codes so this is probably the final straw I need to transfer at least most of my activity to the other place - please find me there!
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Stats Twitter -what kind of model would you use in a training study in which participants are effectively guessing the right answer 50/50 on trial 1, have some probabilistic evidence on trial 2, then get knock-down evidence on trial 3? How to model stick/switch lucky first guess?
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RT @VladChituc: I love it when this pops up because this is some of my favorite work to talk, both from a research angle and from an everyd…
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RT @johngreen: It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualiz…
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RT @LaBBCAT: @wavable And thanks @LangDevRes for being a cool Open Science journal! "We don't believe in locking articles behind paywalls,…
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RT @LaBBCAT: Fromont, Clark, Wilson Black, & Blackwood (2023) "Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech" https:…
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RT @vsbuffalo: Scientists evaluating claims in their own field: “what? They didn’t do a proper control and this subtle ascertainment bias c…
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RT @LangDevRes: Another NEW platinum-open-access article with important real-world implications: @LVKremin, Amel Jordan, Casey Lew-Williams…
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I'm very grateful to these authors for choosing to publish with @LangDevRes! This is now our 25th *Platinum Open Access* article! No income, no fees, no problem. 🚫💵=👍
Happy publication day to Janet Bang, George @kachergis Adriana Weisleder @adriweis and Virginia @V_Marchman for their groundbreaking methods paper: An automated classifier for periods of sleep and target-child-directed speech from LENA recordings 🧵1/x
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RT @MatthewBJane: I am launching a new blog, Meta-Analysis Magic! It will document tips and tricks for extracting unreported statistics, as…
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@SGorard I don’t even mind - I’ll happily convert one to the other! Even a confidence interval will do - just give me something!
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@DermotLynott Yeah I was actually trying to but have had to give up because only like 1 paper in 10 has this data!
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RT @LangDevRes: Happy publication day to Robert Fromont and co-authors: Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speec…
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