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Biosemiotics Achievement Award for the Year 2018

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Established at the annual meeting of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) on July3rd 2014, in conjunction with Springer Publishing, publishers of the Society’s official journal, Biosemiotics,the Annual Biosemiotic Achievement Award seeks to recognize those papers published in the journal thatpresent novel and potentially important contributions to the ongoing project of biosemiotic research, itsscientific impact, and its future prospects. Here the winner of the Biosemiotics Achievement Award for 2018is announced: the award goes to Mirko Cerrone for his article ‘Umwelt and Ape Language Experiments: onthe Role of Iconicity in the Human-Ape Pidgin Language’.

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  1. School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia

    Maurita Harney

  2. Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, Tartu, Estonia

    Riin Magnus

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Harney, M., Magnus, R. Biosemiotics Achievement Award for the Year 2018. Biosemiotics 12, 189–191 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09356-w

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