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Sverker Johansson

Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	University of Lund University of Gothenburg
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, linguistics

Sverker Johansson is a Swedish physicist, linguist, textbook author and university professor. He created Lsjbot, a Wikipedia bot.

Biography

Sverker Johansson is a doctor of philosophy in physics and a master of philosophy in linguistics . He received his doctorate in physics in 1990 on a thesis in particle physics on μμ and eμ pair production at the experiment HELIOS at the collider SPS and software development for the experiment DELPHI at the collider LEP, both experiments at CERN. He has subsequently worked as a researcher in several fields, mainly neutrino-related particle physics with the AMANDA experiment but also in the origin of language.

During his career, he has mainly worked at the University of Jönköping.

Johansson's book Origins of Language, Constraints of Hypotheses, and Convergence Evidence in Language and Communication Studies, published in 2005, has been reviewed by the Journal of Linguistics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In 2012, he presented the theory that Neanderthals used language in "Essay on Neanderthal Language".^[4]

Footnotes

^ "ICLA Review of Sverker Johansson (2005), Origins of Language". 2014-10-13. Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
^ "Hypothetically Speaking » American Scientist". 2014-10-13. Archived from the original on 2014-10-13. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
^ Becker, Claudia A. (2006). "Review of Origins of Language: Constraints on Hypotheses". Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 60 (1): 147–149. doi:10.2307/4143902. ISSN 0361-1299. JSTOR 4143902.
^ Johansson, Sverker (2012). "The case for Neanderthal language - How strong is it?". The Evolution of Language. World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated: 173–180.

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