Recent and upcoming presentations
A list of presentations given outside my home institution in the last year or so, along with confirmed upcoming presentations. A full list of presentations with my name on them is available on my CV
April 2026
- “What is needed for stable synonymy?” Talk in International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang 2026), Plovdiv
- “Iconicity has benefits for bootstrapping, but they're not only for the audience.” Talk in International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang 2026), Plovdiv
February 2026
- “Sometimes big questions call for small data.” Invited panel talk at AAAS Meeting), Phoenix
December 2025
- “Why are some words replaced more than others? A simple laboratory experiment on selection and drift in language change” Invited talk at workshop on the
cultural evolution of Swedish baby names, Uppsala
September 2025
- “Naturalised artificiality: On the value of games in linguistics research” Invited talk at Artificial Languages in Linguist’s Toolbox workshop, Berlin
- “A laboratory language experiment on the effect of learner motivation and framing in revitalization” Invited talk at Linguistic Futures Workshop, Chicago
July 2025
- “The benefits of one-sided iconicity.” Poster at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025), San Francisco
June 2025
- “Unlocking the Secrets of Language” Talk given to Penn Alumni Club, Melbourne.
- “How important is full alignment? An experiment on iconicity.” Talk given at 19th International Pragmatics Conference, Brisbane
- “The (un)faithfulness of human communication.” Talk given at 19th International Pragmatics Conference, Brisbane
April 2025
- “Lightning talk at LingComm25
January 2025
- “Who is iconicity for anyway?” Invited colloquium at Linguistics Department, Yale University