• Teaching, Lectures and Workshops:

  2018 - 2020	Lectures Sciences du Langage, Master Program in Cognitive Sciences, Université Lyon 2, France
  2019	Lectures Statistics with R, Master Program in Cognitive Sciences, Université Lyon 2, France
  2016	Lecture Language and speech are cool for AI, Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, Nijmegen
  2016	Lectures Biases in language evolution, Summer School of Linguistics, Litomyšl, Czech Republic
  2016	Lectures Language, genes and evolution, Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Université Sorbonne Nouvele Paris 3, Paris, France
  2015	Lecture Language origins and evolution, Radboud Summer School, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  2014 - 2017	Lectures Genetics and evolution of language, University of Edinburgh, UK
  2014	Lectures Genetics and language, LOT Summer School, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  2013	Lectures Genetics and language, LSA Summer School, Ann Arbor, USA
  2013	Lectures Genetics and language, DGfS Sommerschule 2013, Berlin, Germany
  2013	Lecture Nature and nurture, International Max Planck Research School, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  2011 - 2015	Lecture Genetic and linguistic diversities, Master Program in Cognitive Neurosciences, Donders Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  2010, 2012, 2013	Course Introduction to statistics using R, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  2011, 2013	Lectures Language and genetics: A brief overview, University of Edinburgh, UK
  2006, 2007	Lecture Genetics and human evolution, University of Edinburgh, UK
  2004 - 2007	Tutorials: Linguistics 1, Statistics and Experimental Design, Psychology 1 and Psychology 2, University of Edinburgh, UK

 ACTIVITÉS D’ENCADREMENT

 PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES

• Ouvrages

• Dediu, D., 2015, "An introduction to genetics for language scientists: Current concepts, methods, and findings", Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press

• Thèses et mémoires

• Dediu, D., 2020, "Language and speech in their wider context: Understanding the effects of our evolution, environment, bodies and minds through the lens of quantitative methods", HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches), Sciences du langage, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France, 125 p.

• Dediu, D., 2007, "Non-spurious correlations between genetic and linguistic diversities in the context of human evolution", PhD Thesis, Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Ouvrages édités

• Gussenhoven, C., Chen, Y. & Dediu, D. (eds), 2014, "The 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 13-16, 2014", ISCA Archive

• Chapitres dans les ouvrages

• Benítez-Burraco, A. & Dediu, D., in press, "The evolution of language and speech: what we know from genetics", in The Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution, Lock, A., Sinha, C. & Gontier, N. (eds), 2, Oxford University Press

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2020, "Are the sounds of languages influenced by climate, environment and biology?", in Questions About Language: What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century, Bauer, L. & Calude, A. (eds), Routledge

• Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2020, "The ArtiVarK click study: Documenting click production and substitution strategies by learners in a large phonetic training and vocal tract imaging study", in Click Consonants, Sands, B. (ed), Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill

• Devanna, P., Dediu, D. & Vernes, S., 2019, "The Genetics of Language: From complex genes to complex communication", in The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Rueschemeyer, S.A. & Gaskell, M. (eds), 2nd, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 865-898

• Janssen, R. & Dediu, D., 2018, "Genetic biases affecting language: What do computer models and experimental approaches suggest?", in Language, Cognition and Computational Models, Poibeau, T. & Villavicencio, A. (eds), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 256-288

• Dediu, D., 2017, "From biology to language change and diversity", in Dependencies in language: On the causal ontology of linguistics systems, Enfield, N. (ed), Berlin, Language Science Press, pp. 39-52

• Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2014, "The time frame of the emergence of modern language and its implications", in The social origins of language, Dor, D., Knight, C. & Lewis, J. (eds), Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 184-195

• Dediu, D. & Graham, S., 2014, "Genetics and Language", in Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, Aronoff, M. (ed), New York, Oxford University Press

• Dediu, D., 2014, "Language and biology: The multiple interactions between genetics and language", in The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology, Enfield, N., Kockelman, P. & Sidnell, J. (eds), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 686-707

• Levinson, S. & Dediu, D., 2013, "The interplay of genetic and cultural factors in ongoing language evolution", in Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion, 12, Richerson, P. & Christiansen, M. (eds), Strüngmann Forum Reports, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, pp. 219-232

• Ladd, D. & Dediu, D., 2013, "Genes and linguistic tone", in Encyclopedia of the mind, Pashler, H. (ed), London, Sage Publications, pp. 372-373

• Dediu, D., Cysouw, M., Levinson, S., Baronchelli, A., Christiansen, M., Croft, W., Evans, N., Garrod, S., Gray, R., Kandler, A. & Lieven, E., 2013, "Cultural evolution of language", in Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion, 12, Richerson, P. & Christiansen, M. (eds), Strüngmann Forum Reports, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, pp. 303-332

• Dediu, D., 2013, "Genes: Interactions with language on three levels - Inter-individual variation, historical correlations and genetic biasing", in The language phenomenon: Human communication from milliseconds to millennia, Binder, P.M. & Smith, K. (eds), Berlin, Springer

• Dediu, D., 2010, "Linguistic and genetic diversity - how and why are they related?", in Building bridges between anthropology, medicine and human ethology: Tributes to Wulf Schiefenhövel, Brüne, M., Salter, F. & McGrew, W. (eds), Bochum, Europäischer Universitätsverlag, pp. 169-178

• Hurford, J. & Dediu, D., 2009, "Diversity in language, genes and the language faculty", in The cradle of language, Botha, R. & Knight, C. (eds), Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 167-188

• Articles de revues

• Anselme, R., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2023, "What’s in the r? A review of the usage of the r symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 53:3, pp. 1003-1032

• Josserand, M., Meeussen, E., Dediu, D. & Majid, A., 2023, "Reply to: Sunlight exposure cannot explain "grue" languages", Scientific Reports, 13:1837

• Lemus Serrano, M., Tang, M. & Dediu, D., 2021, "What conditions tone paradigms in Yukuna: Phonological and machine learning approaches", Glossa: A journal of general linguistics, 6:1, pp. 1-22

• Dediu, D., Moisik, S., Baetsen, W., Bosman, A. & Waters-Rist, A., 2021, "The vocal tract as a time machine: inferences about past speech and language from the anatomy of the speech organs", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B , 376:1824, pp. 20200192

• Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Draxler, C., Asu, E., Dediu, D., Hiovain, K., Kawahara, S., Koutalidis, S., Krifka, M., Lippus, P., Lupyan, G., Oh, G., Paul, J., Petrone, C., Ridouane, R., Reiter, S., Schümchen, N., Szalontai, Á., Ünal-Logacev, Ö., Zeller, J., Winter, B. & Perlman, M., 2021, "Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures", Scientific reports, 11, pp. 10108

• Josserand, M., Tang, M., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Interindividual variation refuses to go away: A Bayesian computer model of language change in communicative networks", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 2176

• Dediu, D., 2021, "Tone and genes: New cross-linguistic data and methods support the weak negative effect of the “derived” allele of ASPM on tone, but not of Microcephalin", PLoS ONE, 16:6, pp. e0253546

• Ulrich, N., Tang, M., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Identifying the Russian voiceless non-palatalized fricatives /f/, /s/, and /ʃ/ from acoustic cues using machine learning", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150:3, pp. 1806-1820

• Josserand, M., Meeussen, E., Majid, A. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception", Scientific Reports, 11, pp. 19095

• Siqueira do Prado, L., Allemann, S., Viprey, M., Schott, A.M., Dediu, D. & Dima, A., 2020, "Quantification and visualisation methods of data-driven chronic care delivery pathways: protocol for a systematic review and content analysis", BMJ Open, 10:3, pp. e033573

• Demuru, E., Pellegrino, F., Dediu, D. & Levréro, F., 2020, "Foraging postures are a potential communicative signal in female bonobos", Scientific Reports, 10:15431

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2019, "Pushes and pulls from below: Anatomical variation, articulation and sound change", Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4:1, pp. 7

• Janssen, R., Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2019, "The effects of larynx height on vowel production are mitigated by the active control of articulators", Journal of Phonetics, 74, pp. 1-17

• Blasi, D., Moran, S., Moisik, S., Widmer, P., Dediu, D. & Bickel, B., 2019, "Human sound systems are shaped by post-Neolithic changes in bite configuration", Science, 363:6432, pp. eaav3218

• Allemann, S., Dediu, D. & Dima, A., 2019, "Beyond Adherence Thresholds: A Simulation Study of the Optimal Classification of Longitudinal Adherence Trajectories From Medication Refill Histories", Frontiers in Pharmacology, 10, pp. 383

• Coupé, C., Oh, Y., Dediu, D. & Pellegrino, F., 2019, "Different languages, similar encoding efficiency: comparable information rates across the human communicative niche", Science Advances, 5:9, pp. eaaw2594

• Dediu, D., Janssen, R. & Moisik, S., 2019, "Weak biases emerging from vocal tract anatomy shape the repeated transmission of vowels", Nature Human Behaviour, -

• Janssen, R., Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2018, "Modelling human hard palate shape with Bézier curves", PLoS ONE, 13:2, pp. e0191557

• Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2018, "Neanderthal language revisited: Not only us", Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 21, pp. 49-55

• Dediu, D., 2018, "Making genealogical language classifications available for phylogenetic analysis: Newick trees, unified identifiers, and branch length.", Language Dynamics and Change, 8:1, pp. 1-21

• Benítez-Burraco, A. & Dediu, D., 2018, "Ancient DNA and language evolution: A special section [Editorial]", Journal of Language Evolution, 3:1, pp. 47-48

• Bentz, C., Dediu, D., Verkerk, A. & Jäger, G., 2018, "The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift", Nature Human Behaviour, 2, pp. 816–821

• Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2017, "Anatomical biasing and clicks: Evidence from biomechanical modeling", Journal of Language Evolution, 2:1, pp. 37-51

• Dediu, D., Janssen, R. & Moisik, S., 2017, "Language is not isolated from its wider environment: Vocal tract influences on the evolution of speech and language", Language and Communication, 54, pp. 9-20

• Bosman, A., Moisik, S., Dediu, D. & Waters-Rist, A., 2017, "Talking heads: Morphological variation in the human mandible over the last 500 years in the Netherlands", HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 68:5, pp. 329-342

• Dima, A. & Dediu, D., 2016, "Computation of Adherence to Medications and Visualization of Medication Histories in R with AdhereR: Towards Transparent and Reproducible Use of Electronic Healthcare Data", PLoS ONE, 12:4, pp. e0174426

• Dediu, D. & de Boer, B., 2016, "Language evolution needs its own journal [Editorial]", Journal of Language Evolution, 1, pp. 1-6

• Dediu, D. & Christiansen, M., 2016, "Language evolution: Constraints and opportunities from modern genetics", Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, pp. 361-370

• Dediu, D., 2016, "Typology for the masses", Linguistic typology, 20:3, pp. 579-581

• Dediu, D., 2016, "A multi-layered problem", IEEE CDS Newsletter, 13, pp. 14-15

• Asaridou, S., Takashima, A., Dediu, D., Hagoort, P. & McQueen, J., 2016, "Repetition suppression in the left inferior frontal gyrus predicts tone learning performance", Cerebral Cortex, 26:6, pp. 2728-2742

• Xiang, H., Van Leeuwen, T., Dediu, D., Roberts, L., Norris, D. & Hagoort, P., 2015, "L2-proficiency-dependent laterality shift in structural connectivity of brain language pathways", Brain Connectivity, 5:6, pp. 349-361

• Ladd, D., Roberts, S. & Dediu, D., 2015, "Correlational studies in typological and historical linguistics", Annual Review of Linguistics, 1, pp. 221-241

• Caldwell-Harris, C., Lancaster, A., Ladd, D., Dediu, D. & Christiansen, M., 2015, "Factors influencing sensitivity to lexical tone in an artificial language: Implications for second language learning", Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37:2, pp. 335-357

• Ladd, D., Turnbull, R., Browne, C., Caldwell-Harris, C., Ganushchak, L., Swoboda, K., Woodfield, V. & Dediu, D., 2013, "Patterns of individual differences in the perception of missing-fundamental tones", Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39:5, pp. 1386-1397

• Gialluisi, A., Dediu, D., Francks, C. & Fisher, S., 2013, "Persistence and transmission of recessive deafness and sign language: New insights from village sign languages", European Journal of Human Genetics, 21, pp. 894-896

• Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2013, "On the antiquity of language: The reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences", Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, pp. 397

• Dediu, D. & Cysouw, M., 2013, "Some structural aspects of language are more stable than others: A comparison of seven methods", PLoS ONE, 8, pp. e55009

• Xiang, H., Dediu, D., Roberts, L., Van Oort, E., Norris, D. & Hagoort, P., 2012, "The structural connectivity underpinning language aptitude, working memory and IQ in the perisylvian language network", Language Learning, 62:Supplement S2, pp. 110-130

• Knooihuizen, R. & Dediu, D., 2012, "Historical demography and historical sociolinguistics: The role of migrant integration in the development of Dunkirk French in the 17th century", Language Dynamics and Change, 2:1, pp. 1-33

• Ioana, M., Ferwerda, B., Farjadian, S., Ioana, L., Ghaderi, A., Oosting, M., Joosten, L., Van der Meer, J., Romeo, G., Luiselli, D., Dediu, D. & Netea, M., 2012, "High variability of TLR4 gene in different ethnic groups of Iran", Innate Immunity, 18, pp. 492-502

• Hanulikova, A., Dediu, D., Fang, Z., Basnakova, J. & Huettig, F., 2012, "Individual differences in the acquisition of a complex L2 phonology: A training study", Language Learning, 62:Supplement S2, pp. 79-109

• Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2012, "Abstract profiles of structural stability point to universal tendencies, family-specific factors, and ancient connections between languages", PLoS ONE, 7:9, pp. e45198

• Dediu, D. & Dingemanse, M., 2012, "More than accent: Linguistic and cultural cues in the emergence of tag-based cooperation [Commentary]", Current Anthropology, 53, pp. 606-607

• Cysouw, M., Dediu, D. & Moran, S., 2012, "Comment on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”", Science, 335, pp. 657-b

• Dediu, D., 2011, "Are languages really independent from genes? If not, what would a genetic bias affecting language diversity look like?", Human Biology, 83, pp. 279-296

• Dediu, D., 2011, "A Bayesian phylogenetic approach to estimating the stability of linguistic features and the genetic biasing of tone", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London/B, 278:1704, pp. 474-479

• Maguire, W., McMahon, A., Heggarty, P. & Dediu, D., 2010, "The past, present, and future of English dialects: Quantifying convergence, divergence, and dynamic equilibrium", Language Variation and Change, 22, pp. 69-104

• Dediu, D., 2009, "Genetic biasing through cultural transmission: Do simple Bayesian models of language evolution generalize?", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 259, pp. 552-561

• Ladd, D., Dediu, D. & Kinsella, A., 2008, "Languages and genes: reflections on biolinguistics and the nature-nurture question", Biolinguistics, 2:1, pp. 114-126

• Ladd, D., Dediu, D. & Kinsella, A., 2008, "Reply to Bowles (2008)", Biolinguistics, 2:2, pp. 256-259

• Dediu, D., 2008, "The role of genetic biases in shaping the correlations between languages and genes", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254, pp. 400-407

• Dediu, D. & Ladd, D., 2007, "Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and Microcephalin", PNAS, 104, pp. 10944-10949

• Communications avec actes édités

• Anselme, R., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2022, "R you sure that your /R/ is trilled ? A methodological caveat", proc. of The evolution of language: Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan, 06/09/2022, Ravignani, R., Asano, R., Valente, D., Ferretti, F., Hartmann, S., Hayashi, M., Jadoul, Y., Martins, M., Oseki, Y., Rodrigues, E., Vasileva, O. & Wacewicz, S. (eds), Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (abstract)

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2019, "Biology matters: Variation in vocal tract anatomy and language", proc. of 23rd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL 23), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017, Topintzi, N., Lavidas, N. & Moumtzi, M. (eds), School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 23, pp. 19-33, 23rd International Symposium papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics - Selected Papers

• Dima, A., Allemann, S. & Dediu, D., 2019, "AdhereR: An Open Science Approach to Estimating Adherence to Medications Using Electronic Healthcare Databases.", proc. of MEDINFO 2019, Lyon, France, 2019, 264, pp. 1451-1452, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics (abstract) (poster)

• Janssen, R., Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2018, "Agent model reveals the influence of vocal tract anatomy on speech during ontogeny and glossogeny"The 12th International Conference on Language Evolution (EVOLANG12), Toruń, Poland, 2018, Cuskley, C., Flaherty, M., Little, H., McCrohon, L., Ravignani, A. & Verhoef, T. (eds), NCU Press, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII)

• Bentz, C., Dediu, D., Verkerk, A. & Jäger, G., 2018, "Language family trees reflect geography and demography beyond neutral drift"The 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG12), Toruń, Poland, 2018, Cuskley, C., Flaherty, M., Little, H., McCrohon, L., Ravignani, A. & Verhoef, T. (eds), NCU Press, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference (EVOLANGXII)

• Janssen, R., Winter, B., Dediu, D., Moisik, S. & Roberts, S., 2016, "Nonlinear biases in articulation constrain the design space of language"The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 11), New Orleans, USA, 2016, Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)

• Janssen, R., Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2016, "Simple agents are able to replicate speech sounds using 3d vocal tract model"The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG11), New Orleans, USA, 2016, Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11).

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2016, "Anatomical biasing of click learning and production: An MRI and 3d palate imaging study"The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG11), New Orleans, USA, 2016, Roberts, S., Cuskley, C., McCrohon, L., Barceló-Coblijn, L., Feher, O. & Verhoef, T. (eds), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11)

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2016, "Defining and counting phonological classes in cross-linguistic segment databases"The 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2016), Portorož, Slovenia, 2016, Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Goggi, S., Grobelnik, M., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Mazo, H., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 1955-1962, Proceedings of LREC 2016: 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

• Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2015, "Anatomical biasing and clicks: Preliminary biomechanical modelling"The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015) Satellite Event: The Evolution of Phonetic Capabilities: Causes constraints, consequences , Glasgow, UK, 2015, Little, H. (ed), ICPhS, pp. 8-13

• Janssen, R., Moisik, S. & Dediu, D., 2015, "Bézier modelling and high accuracy curve fitting to capture hard palate variation"The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasgow, UK, 2015, University of Glasgow

• Roberts, S., Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2014, "Detecting differences between the languages of Neandertals and modern humans"The 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 2014, Cartmill, E., Roberts, S., Lyn, H. & Cornish, H. (eds), World Scientific, pp. 501-502, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference

• Dediu, D. & Levinson, S., 2014, "Language and speech are old: A review of the evidence and consequences for modern linguistic diversity"The 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG10), Vienna, Austria, 2014, Cartmill, E., Roberts, S., Lyn, H. & Cornish, H. (eds), World Scientific, pp. 421-422, The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference

• Dediu, D., 2008, "Causal correlations between genes and linguistic features: The mechanism of gradual language evolution"The 7th International Conference on the evolution of language (EVOLANG7), Barcelona, Spain, 2008, Smith, A., Smith, K. & Ferrer i Cancho, R. (eds), World Scientific Press, pp. 83-90, The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference

• Dediu, D., 2006, "Mostly out of Africa, but what did the others have to say? "The 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANG6), Rome, Italy, 2006, Cangelosi, A., Smith, A. & Smith, K. (eds), World Scientific, pp. 59-66, The evolution of language: proceedings of the 6th International Conference

• Conférences invitées dans colloque

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Speech is not isolated from the body of the speakers: how variation in vocal tract anatomy affects phonetic and phonological diversity", proc. of Embodied Speech International Workshop, Amphithéâtre Durkheim, Université Sorbonne 1 rue Victor Cousin, 75005 Paris, France, 8-9 April 2019 (abstract)

• Dediu, D., 2019, "From biology to language: vocal tract variation shapes phonetic and phonological diversity across languages", proc. of Workshop "Exploring Language", Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 29/05/2019 (abstract)

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Langage et parole sont des systèmes évolutifs: l’influence de l’environnement et de notre biologie sur la diversité linguistique"EvoLyon’2019, Amphithéâtre de la Rotonde - INSA Lyon, Lyon, France, 26.11.2019

• Dediu, D., 2017, "Plenary talk: Variation is not noise: from genetics to language change and diversity", proc. of Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT12), Canberra, Australia, 12 décembre

• Dediu, D., 2017, "Constraints, affordances, biases: the gentle influence of biological variation on sound change."International Workshop on Sound Change (WSC4), Edinburgh, UK, 2017

• Dediu, D., 2017, "Plenary talk: From genes to linguistic diversity: vocal tract anatomy and cross-linguistic variation."23rd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL23), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2017

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Plenary talk: Language does not evolve in a void: culture, biology and the physical environment."Protolang 4, Rome, Italy, 2015

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Languages evolve: parallels & interactions between languages & genes"Strings and Structures Workshop, Universität zu Köln, Germany, 2015

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Across levels and timescales: causal bridges from molecules to linguistic diversity"Causality in the language sciences , Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 2015

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Shaping each other: language and speech in their wider context."SMART Cognitive Science (Workshop "Evolution of Language: the coevolution of biology and culture"), 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Dediu, D., 2014, "Modern human dispersal in Eurasia: any linguistic traces?"Santa Barbara Symposium on Human Origins II , Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, California, US, 2014

• Dediu, D., 2014, "Language evolution and change: the impact of modern evolutionary thinking."5th meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Euro Evo-Devo 5) (Workshop "Human vocal development and animal communication"), Vienna, Austria, 2014

• Dediu, D., 2014, "Dependencies, correlations and causality: why do we care about them?"Dependencies in Language workshop, Maillen, Belgium, 2014

• Dediu, D., 2013, "Genetic stories behind village sign languages – the co-evolution of deafness with sign language"Minerva-Gentner Symposium on Emergent Languages and Cultural Evolution, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2013

• Dediu, D., 2013, "The interplay between linguistic and biological evolution – computational models of genetic biases."Language, Cognition and Computational Models , Paris, France, 2013

• Dediu, D., 2013, "Some quantitative approaches to analyzing language dialects."Dialectes humains et communication animale, Grenoble, France, 2013

• Dediu, D., 2012, "What does genetics have to do with language? - with a special reference to tone."Workshop "Tone: Theory and Practice" , Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 2012

• Dediu, D., 2011, "Are some structural features of language more stable than others and if so, why?."Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages (BEDLAN), University of Turku, Finland, 2011

• Dediu, D., 2011, "The stability of typological features."Computational Historical Linguistics, International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), Osaka, Japan, 2011

• Dediu, D., 2010, "Language diversity and its relationships with genes, history and space."Biological Evolution and Diversification of Languages (BEDLAN), University of Turku, Finland, 2010

• Dediu, D., 2010, "Are languages really independent from genes?"CEE 2010 Symposium - Integrating Genetic and Cultural Approaches to Language, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2010

• Séminaires invités

• Dediu, D. & Josserand, M., 2022, "Blue and green, or grue? The color lexicon at the intersection of the environment, genetics, and culture", University of Tübingen (Germany, online)

• Dediu, D., 2020, "Language and speech are evolutionary systems: the influence of our own biology on language evolution and diversity", Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive (LBBE) UMR CNRS 5558, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Biology and language: vocal tract variation influences cross-linguistic phonetic and phonological diversity", Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (UMR 5554), Montpellier, France

• Dediu, D., 2019, "The Genetic Foundations of Language and Speech", Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Speech and language are affectedby the biology of the speakers", Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle Neuro-PSI, CNRS UMR 9197, Saint-Etienne, France, 07.06.2019

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Some quantitative and data-driven approaches to studying linguistic diversity and the processes that shape it", Institutul de Cercetare al Universității din București (ICUB / Digital Humanities), Facultatea de Matematica si Informatica, Universitatea din Bucuresti, Romania, 27.11.2019

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Language and speech in their wider environmentecological, physical and biological influences on linguistic diversity", Facultatea de Limbi si Literaturi Straine, Bucuresti, Romania, 28.11.2020

• Dediu, D., 2018, "Language is affected by several non-linguistic factors (and that includes biology)", Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), University of Barcelona, Spain

• Dediu, D., 2017, "Public lecture: Language Evolution and Genetics - a complex, multi-level and cross-disciplinary relationship", Opening of the "TALKING BRAINS" Exhibition, Cosmocaixa Science Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2017

• Dediu, D., 2016, "Vocal tract anatomy and language: non-linguistic factors may influence language diversity and evolution.", Uppsala University, Sweden, 2016

• Dediu, D., 2016, "From genes to language universals and linguistic diversity", Departement d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Extra-linguistic factors nudge language evolution (but language is not passive and fights back!).", Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, 2015

• Dediu, D., 2014, "What can we learn from two natural experiments in language evolution, us and the Neandertals?", University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Dediu, D., 2014, "On the antiquity of speech and language", Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), University of Barcelona, Spain

• Dediu, D., 2014, "On the antiquity of speech and language", Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

• Dediu, D., 2014, "On the antiquity of speech and language: Did the Neandert(h)als talk and why would it matter?", Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

• Dediu, D., 2013, "Did the Neandertals talk? And if so, what?", Max Planck Institut Erling Andechs, Germany

• Dediu, D., 2013, "Genes: finding them, what they are, and what they do.", Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Evolutionary Anthropology, Rastatt, Germany

• Dediu, D., 2009, "Genetic biasing & Bayesian Iterated Language Learning.", Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam

• Communications

• Josserand, M., Caparos, S., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2022, "The colour lexicon is shaped by environment and biology: comparing Himba and French colour perception", JcCOLE: Joint Conference for Language Evolution, Kanazawa, Japan, September 2022

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2020, "Vocal tract anatomy as a time machine: what can we infer about the “deep” linguistic past?", EVOLANG XIII, Brussels, Belgium, 14-17 April 2020

• Smith, K. & Dediu, D., 2020, "Did partial hearing loss shape australian phonology? An empirical test using spoken iterated learning ", EVOLANG XIII, Brussels, Belgium, 14-17 April 2020

• Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Oh, Y. & Dediu, D., 2020, "Evolutionary Perspectives on Speech and Information Rates [poster]", EVOLANG XIII, Brussels, Belgium, 14-17 April 2020

• Dediu, D., 2019, "Glimpses into the “deep” past: what can vocal tract anatomy say about lost linguistic diversity?", “Prehistoric languages beyond the limits of comparative linguistics” workshop, SLE 2019 , Leipzig University, Germany, 22.08.2019

• Film ou radio

• Kourtchine, D., Dediu, D. & Widmer, P., 2020, "L'agriculture et les labiodentales, c'est quoi le rapport ?", France/Germany, TV ARTE: Reconnexion, 8 minutes

• Midgley, D. & Dediu, D., 2018, "Talk the Talk 346: What Works (featuring Dan Dediu)", Australia, Talk the Talk, 49 minutes

• Article dans journal

• Robson, D., Roberts, S., Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2014, "How to speak Neanderthal: Perhaps we do already", New Scientist, 14/05/2014

• Logiciel

• Dediu, D. & Dima, A., 2017-, "AdhereR", pp. Open source package for the statistical environment R that implements a set of methods for computing the adherence to treatment from electronic medical records. The package is freely available on CRAN and its source code is available on GitHub

• Dediu, D., 2009-2013, "Rgedit", pp. Plug-in for gedit (the standard Gnome editor) which transforms it into a light-weight IDE for the statistical environment R, aimed at advanced/professional users of R on Linux. Not under active development.

• Dediu, D., 2009-2010, "BayesLang", pp. Bayesian inference program for linguistic structural data.

• Dediu, D., 2007-2009, "GenLangCorrV4", pp. Software platform for running simulations of various types of genetically biased language change and evolution. The program is released under GPLv3, is written in C++ and runs on *nix.

• Données en ligne

• Dediu, D. & Moisik, S., 2015, "Features (and feature counts) from Phoible and Ruhlen's databases [database and software tools]", Url

• Dediu, D., 2015, "Language family classifications as Newick trees with branch length [database and software tool]", Url