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Latest Publications
Spanish with (different) Araucanian sounds: the influence of Mapudungun on the Chilean Spanish vowel system. Boletín de filología 55 (2), pp. 33 - 75 (2020)
Color terms: native language semantic structure and artificial language structure formation in a large-scale online smartphone application. PsyArXiv Preprints, 9zmcg (2020), 38 pp.
Exotic foods reveal contact between South Asia and the Near East during the second millennium BCE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 202014956 (2020)
Tangut as a West Gyalrongic language. Folia Linguistica 54 (s41), 0006, pp. 171 - 203 (2020)
Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates. The Holocene, 0959683620981700 (2020)
An overview of the “Color Game” App project. SocArXiv Papers, cjaxw (2020), 33 pp.
Magdalenian and Epimagdalenian chronology and palaeoenvironments at Kůlna Cave, Moravia, Czech Republic. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13 (1), 4, pp. 1 - 20 (2021)
Attractiveness and distinctiveness between speakers' voices in naturalistic speech and their faces are uncorrelated. Royal Society Open Science 7 (12), 201244 (2020)