Biodiversity inventory, monitoring, and species-recovery efforts can be advanced by a
dynamic collaboration of Western, citizen, and ethnoscience. Indigenous and local traditional …

This article presents the conceptual and methodological framework for the special issue
Frames of reference in Mesoamerican languages, which reports on the use of frames of …

Humans share sensory systems with a common anatomical blueprint, but individual sensory
experience nevertheless varies. In olfaction, it is not known to what degree sensory …

We investigated the role of discourse context in relative clause processing. We first replicated
Reali and Christiansen’s (2007a) finding that pronominal object relative clauses are easier …

We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language
contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight …

The sense of smell has widely been viewed as inferior to the other senses. This is reflected
in the lack of treatment of olfaction in ethnographies and linguistic descriptions. We present …

Most linguistic and cognitive representations of space depend on frames of reference (FoRs).
We show that FoRs play an equally important role in representations of the orientation of …

Policies aimed at sustainable landscape management recognise the importance of multiple
cultural viewpoints, but the notion of landscape itself is implicitly assumed to be …

We present the results of two studies of the use of spatial reference frames in speakers of 11
linguistic varieties. A series of mixed-models linear regression analyses of the responses to …

Recently, there has been extensive work in linguistics to develop recommendations for
digitizing legacy language materials. However, relatively little work has been done on the social …