Remo Nitschke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4601773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Remo Nitschke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Remo |
| FAMILY NAME | Nitschke |
| SIGNATURE | NITSCHKE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3660-1006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933 but re-installed by the Allies after World War II. We find that pre-Nazi patterns in public debt re-appear in cities with a re-installed mayor, albeit all city debt defaulted after the war. We do not find…
Birth of a Language in the Backlands of Brazil
It is assumed that in order to acquire a language, children must be exposed to a language during the critical period, which generally lasts until puberty. Here, we report on Cena, an emergent sign language that has developed among a small group of deaf people in an isolated town in the state of Piauí, Brazil. Starting three generations ago, it has developed into a fully functioning communicative system with all characteristics of a typical human …
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Elite Persistence and Policy Persistence
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933 but re-installed by the Allies after World War II. We find that pre-Nazi patterns in public debt re-appear in cities with a re-installed mayor, albeit all city debt defaulted after the war. We do not find…
Birth of a Language in the Backlands of Brazil
It is assumed that in order to acquire a language, children must be exposed to a language during the critical period, which generally lasts until puberty. Here, we report on Cena, an emergent sign language that has developed among a small group of deaf people in an isolated town in the state of Piauí, Brazil. Starting three generations ago, it has developed into a fully functioning communicative system with all characteristics of a typical human …
Categorization, perception, and language (1 work) · Credence (1 work) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 work) · Elite (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (1 work) · Human language (1 work) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (1 work) · Language development (1 work) · Language Development and Disorders (1 work)