Postdoctoral Researcher / ERC project STARFISH / University of Konstanz
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Henri Kauhanen, Deepthi Gopal, Tobias Galla & Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
Science Advances, 7, eabe6540 (2021)
The propensity of features of language to change can be measured using a temperature-like quantity.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe6540
Royal Society Open Science, 7, 201682 (2020)
Sociolinguistic identity maintenance can be understood as a population game with nonlinear fitness.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201682
The Determinants of Diachronic Stability (Benjamins) (2019)
Stable variation can arise when multiple grammars compete.
Closed access: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.254.11kau
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06265
Henri Kauhanen & George Walkden
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 36(2), 483–521 (2018)
The Constant Rate Effect, or something like it, arises from the interplay of variational learning and production biases.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-017-9380-1
Journal of Linguistics, 53(2), 327–358 (2017)
Changes can be well-behaved even if they are selectively neutral.
Closed access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226716000141
Preprint: papers/neutral-change.pdf
(2021)
The fraction of L2 learners present in a speech community must exceed a critical threshold for L2-difficult features to be lost.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12061
(2018)
PhD Thesis in Linguistics, The University of Manchester
Open access: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/93532746/FULL_TEXT.PDF
2021–
Postdoc in the ERC project STARFISH
University of Konstanz
2019–2021
Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg
University of Konstanz
2018–2019
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Manchester
2017–2018
Akademischer Mitarbeiter, Department of Linguistics
University of Konstanz
2014–2018
PhD (Linguistics)
University of Manchester
2005–2013
BA (Cognitive Science), BA (English Philology), MA (Cognitive Science)
University of Helsinki
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