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8Accessibility and Historical Change: An Emergent Cluster Led Uncles and Aunts to Become Aunts and UnclesFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.There are times when a curiously odd relic of language presents us with a thread, which when pulled, reveals deep and general facts about human language. This paper unspools such a case. Prior to 1930, English speakers uniformly preferred male-before-female word order in conjoined nouns such asuncles and aunts; nephews and nieces; men and women. Since then, at least a half dozen items have systematically reversed their preferred order (e.g.,aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews) while others have…Read more
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Unanticipated intimacies: A collective writing experimentIn Helen Westgeest, Kitty Zijlmans & Thomas J. Berghuis (eds.), Mix & stir: new outlooks on contemporary art from global perspectives, Valiz. 2021.
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