Natalia MorozovaUniversity of Zurich | UZH · Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Natalia Morozova
Master of Arts
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Introduction
The goal of my PhD research is to understand the evolutionary origins of language and identify the universal behavioural patterns of joint action coordination in human children across culturally diverse naturalistic settings. By collecting observational and experimental field data, I aim to investigate the ontogenetic development of multimodal coordination devices, primarily in the context of social play.
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December 2018 - September 2019
Education
March 2016 - September 2019
September 2011 - July 2015
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Publications (3)
Joint activities (e.g. building a LEGO model) unfold in a hierarchy of subprojects. Navigating them implies horizontally elaborating on a subproject (placing one block) and vertically moving to a new subproject (next block). Interactants coordinate horizontal and vertical transitions with project markers (okay, yeah). We suggest that vertical vs. h...
Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use of various strategies, combining evidence from various sources. Despite the increasing popularity of computational approaches in comparative linguistics, automated appr...
Advances in computer-assisted linguistic research have been greatly influential in reshaping linguistic research. With the increasing availability of interconnected datasets created and curated by researchers, more and more interwoven questions can now be investigated. Such advances, however, are bringing high requirements in terms of rigorousness...
