Such a privilege to interview Kimi Akita for SKASE about his long career researching #ideophones! Kimi's conducted some of the most fascinating and insightful work in the field, which he continues to lead into exciting new directions. Ideophone enthusiasts, read here! www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL6...
FYI there is currently an issue with the Arabic in the article that I am trying to get updated.
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? 👀
We argue that these patterns reflect both the base-10 structure of the decimal system, and the increasing imprecision of the human approximate number system. In short: the bigger the number, the fuzzier its meaning becomes, both communicatively and cognitively. ✅ (5/5)
2️⃣ We compared the distributional semantics of numbers with indefinite hyperbolic numbers like 'gazillion' and 'umpteen', which lack a precise value, finding that larger round numbers like 'million' and 'billion' are used similarly to these fictitious numbers. 👇 (3/5)
1️⃣ We analysed corpus frequencies of numbers with different mathematical properties associated with roundness in the BNC and COCA, finding that people use round numbers more often, and round to a greater extent, at higher magnitudes. 👇 (2/5)
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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