Say “I’m Uncle Lama” and sit with crossed legs: Socializing religious practice in Sherpa
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In caregivers’ speech to children, linguistic information is inseparable from cultural information. Young children acquiring Sherpa, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northeastern Nepal’s Khumbu region, are also learning the Tibetan Buddhist concepts, values, and practices of their community. An analysis of naturalistic video data involving six Khumbu Sherpa children and their families collected over 2 years demonstrates how children are socialized into aspects of Tibetan Buddhist practice through caregiver directives. These caregiver directives operate on two levels, one more obvious and the other more subtle. First, caregivers use directives to set up and manage directed play sequences that draw on formal Buddhist rituals and practices. Second, the ways that caregivers deploy directives in everyday speech teach deeper lessons about volition, planning, and causality that resonate with Buddhist teachings.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it