Steven Moran
Scientific Director
Office: AND-4.78
Email: steven.moran@uzh.ch
Andreasstrasse 15
8050 Zürich
Campus Oerlikon
8050 Zürich
Campus Oerlikon
Steven manages LiRI's scientific direction. He contributes to the development of LiRI by supporting the service area managers, project acquisition, and is responsible for implementing the LiRI vision as set forth by the steering committee. In addition to his LiRI responsibilities, Steven is an assistant professor in the Institute of Biology at the University of Neuchâtel, where he is director of the Language Evolution Lab, as part of his SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship, Evolution of phonetics and phonology (EVOPHON; 2020-2026). He is also the executive director and moderator of the LINGUIST List.
Publications
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Publications
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2024
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Operationalizing Borrowability: Phonological Segments as a Case Study Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, 100(4), 671–698. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a947038
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Phonetic Segmentation of the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive In: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino, Italy, May 2024. ELRA and ICCL, 12724-12733.
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2022
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2020
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Linguistic linked open data and under-resource languages: from collection to application In: Pareja-Lora, Antonio; Blume, Mara; Lust, Barbara . Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 39-70.
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Rejoinder to Huijbregts’s: Biting into evolution of language Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2):184-187.
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2019
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Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
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Phonological inventories In: Aronoff, Mark . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. linguistics.oxfordre.com/: Oxford University Press, online.
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Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration Science, 363(6432):eaav3218.
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2018
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Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4100-4105.
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Towards faithfully visualizing global linguistic diversity In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 805-809.
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BDPROTO: A Database of Phonological Inventories from Ancient and Reconstructed Languages In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 1654-1658.
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Editorial: The Adaptive Value of Languages: Non-linguistic Causes of Language Diversity Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1827.
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A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames Cognition, 175:131-140.
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Differential rates of change in consonant and vowel systems In: Cuskley, C; Flaherty, M; Little, H; McCrohon, Luke; Ravignani, A; Verhoef, T . The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII). April 16--19, Toruń, Poland. Toruń, Poland: Cognitive Linguistics ICLA, 322-325.
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2017
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The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles Berlin: Language Science Press.
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2016
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Dogon and Bangime Linguistics Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 28 May 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4423-4429.
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The Open Linguistics Working Group: Developing the Linguistic Linked Open Data Cloud In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 28 May 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2435-2441.
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Commentary: Issues of time, tone, roots and replicability Journal of Language Evolution, 1(1):73-76.
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2015
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Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82.
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