Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
Bodo Winter
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This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike!
A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner.
I can highly recommend!
The first WoReLa was really exciting - second one coming up next year in Cologne, woohoo!
Bodo Winter
Bodo Winter
New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️
And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG
Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
Bodo Winter
All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!
For my areas see jessyli.com
New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics.
Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion."
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In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
Elaine Francis
Jon Brennan
Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇
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Happy Book Day! My graphic novel Speaking in Pictures is finally out in the world! I planned this book for over 20 years and spent 7 years writing and drawing it, so I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating it 🥳 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
Right, enough complaining about academia, let's make things better! A small step, but my colleagues and I are organising the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (WoReLa 2) in July 2027 in Cologne: https://sites.google.com/view/worela2.
The call for abstract is now open […]
The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students!
Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai!
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Simon Fisher
Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of t...
