@Benambridge

Professor (Psychology/Child language, University of Manchester)

 Sale, Greater Manchester
benambridge.com
Joined February 2011
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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: osf.io/bqg5w/ Ask your local print-shop to run one off for you! wals.info Thanks Matthew Dryer, @haspelmath & team!
Map of the major language families of the world, from the World Atlas of Language Structures. Download at https://osf.io/bqg5w/

ALT Map of the major language families of the world, from the World Atlas of Language Structures. Download at https://osf.io/bqg5w/

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'A fascinating, entertaining and deeply smart journey into the storytelling brain' - Will Storr, bestselling author of The Status Game and The Science of Storytelling The Stories of Your Life by @benambridge is published today! Order your copy now 👉 buff.ly/3MrU14O
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Twitter, please forgive me while I geek out with HELP! Random effects structure in mixed-effects models With huge apologies to John Lennon 🧵1/7
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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?!
Kanishka Misra 🌊@kanishkamisra1 Nov 2023
Replying to @kanishkamisra
as is probably clear in the abstract, the framing in this work was heavily influenced by @Benambridge’s 2020 paper (journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…) and the responses to it, including a response to the responses! I encourage everyone to read these!

Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition - Ben Ambridge, 2020

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and compre...

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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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Vlad Chituc@VladChituc2 Oct 2023
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 everyday-person-existing-in-the-world angle. It's completely real!! and the fact that so many people have trouble believing it is totally the point!
Stuart Ritchie
@StuartJRitchie2 Oct 2023
My hot take: this isn't real. Nobody can actually "see" stuff that doesn't exist in the way implied here unless they're actively hallucinating. This is just an issue of these things being extremely hard to explain using language, and people using words in subtly different ways.
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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 "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals. I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.
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LaBB-CAT@LaBBCAT1 Sep 2023
Replying to @LaBBCAT @wavable
And thanks @LangDevRes for being a cool Open Science journal! "We don't believe in locking articles behind paywalls, in charging taxpayers and universities to publish research they've already funded..." ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/
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LaBB-CAT@LaBBCAT1 Sep 2023
Fromont, Clark, Wilson Black, & Blackwood (2023) "Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech" doi.org/10.34842/shrr-sv10
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Vince Buffalo@vsbuffalo25 Sep 2023
Scientists evaluating claims in their own field: “what? They didn’t do a proper control and this subtle ascertainment bias confounds all conclusions. Don’t believe any of it.” Scientists evaluating pop social sci claims “wow, that correlation is proof. Let’s do an intervention.”
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#Ggplot2 tip - if you’re plotting a figure with date as the x axis don’t forget to double check the variable is actually a date NOT a factor, character etc. - if not use #tidyr lubridate to make it a date!
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Another NEW platinum-open-access article with important real-world implications: @LVKremin, Amel Jordan, Casey Lew-Williams and @Krista_BH @Concordia @Princeton - "Bilingual children’s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective" doi.org/10.34842/zyvj-cv60 🧵1/n

Bilingual children’s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective

Bilingual children regularly hear sentences that contain words from both languages, also known as code-switching. Investigating how bilinguals process code-switching is important for understanding...

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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. 🚫💵=👍
Language Development Research@LangDevRes12 Sep 2023
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 doi.org/10.34842/xmrq-er43 🧵1/x

An automated classifier for periods of sleep and target-child-directed speech from LENA recordings

Some theories of language development propose that children learn more effectively when exposed to speech that is directed to them (target child directed speech, tCDS) than when exposed to speech...

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Happy publication day to Robert Fromont and co-authors: Maximizing accuracy of forced alignment for spontaneous child speech doi.org/10.34842/shrr-sv10 🧵1/n
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Researchers, I'm begging you: PLEASE JUST GIVE THE MEANS AND SDs/SEs FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL CONDITION before your hugely complex statistical model
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Probably the most useful tweet I've ever seen (apart from @DrLearnasaurus's about sum coding)! I've set up editable @LangDevRes email templates to ask authors to add all the bits and pieces they often forget -much easier than doing it via the website!
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Anon Opin.
@anon_opin30 Aug 2023
There is probably about 10-15 people on this planet who can stop global warming by making decisions that would benefit humankind not their pockets. You or me taking a Bag For Life to ASDA ain't one of them.
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A few months ago, many of you were kind enough to nominate me for the role of chief editor of Psychological Science I progressed to the next stage & so in the interests of transparency I'm posting my 'vision statement' on what I would do if I got the job drive.google.com/file/d/15yw…
Chris Chambers@chrisdc7725 May 2023
Nominate me for chief editor if you'd like to see a journal fit for the future including: -Registered Reports, Exploratory Reports, Verification Reports, Results-blind review, TOP Level 2+ -Close ties to preprints & preprint-based review, inc. @PeerCommunityIn & @PCI_RegReports
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