What a pleasure it was to join the Across Acoustics podcast by Kat Setzer from @asa-news.bsky.social together with @susfuchs.bsky.social We talked about our special issue on #iconicity and #sound #symbolism. It was lots of fun! Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis... #langsky #linguistics

We wtorek miałam przyjemność gościć w audycji Łukasza Badowskiego "Z innej planety" w Radiu RDC. Rozmawialiśmy o ikoniczności w języku. Dziękuję za zaproszenie i zapraszam do wysłuchania! 🗣💬 www.rdc.pl/podcast/z-in...

W @wyborcza.pl ukazał się artykuł o mojej pracy nad ikonicznością w języku, czyli o tym, jak dźwięki i znaczenia są ze sobą powiązane w naszej percepcji, niezależnie od kultury. 👉 wyborcza.pl/7,75400,3207... #nauka #językoznawstwo #ikoniczność #polskanauka #multimodalność #langsky #linguistics

🗣💬 #iconicity #sound #symbolism I'm happy to share a special issue I had the pleasure to edit together with @susfuchs.bsky.social and Jody Kreiman. I'm very grateful to all the contributors for sharing their work as a part of this collection 🎉 pubs.aip.org/jasa/collect...

Watch out, here is a collection of papers on Sound Symbolism, edited by @acwiek.bsky.social, Jody Kreiman and me in #JASA with some inspiring contributions from different scholars. pubs.aip.org/jasa/collect.... More coming soon, Aleksandra and I were asked to do a podcast.

This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃

Excited for the 1st RTG SFB 1646 & Friends Symposium today and @acwiek.bsky.social‘s talk on "The RISE of a PhD: Navigating Chaos, Crisis, and Success in Academia."

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction theconversation.com/...

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics! Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying! Please repost & share widely!

Such a great place to work and live in! Toruń is magical and the CLES group makes it even better. If you’re looking for a postdoc, this is an opportunity to go for!

How do sounds connect to meaning? 🎙️👀 In this short video, I introduce my research on linguistic iconicity and multimodality. 👐💬 Part of #DGfS macht Schule, a video series that highlights why #linguistics matters in education. It’s in German – take a look! 🎥

The University of Helsinki is looking for a lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

Another great paper from our special issue on #iconicity and #sound symbolism! There are still some more exciting papers to come and soon we will be compiling them to an amazing collection. Thanks to all the contributors! ✨

Abwechslung zwischen den Bad News: Die Luingistik hat untersucht, wie wir das gerollte R wahrnehmen (bin ja persönlich Fan von dem Laut 😄). Was das für die Frage bedeutet, wie sich Sprache einst entwickelt haben könnte, hat mir @acwiek.bsky.social erklärt.(T+) www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/rrrrr...

I’m super happy to be featured in an article written by @evamurasov.bsky.social in the @tagesspiegel.de about our studies on R/L and bouba/kiki 💭🗯️ please look also at the great illustration that comes with it! 💥✨ www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/rrrrr...

Words for emotions are differently connected in human groups from various regions and language families. Emotion experiences may vary across cultures. Analyzing the diverse ways that people use language can yield insights into human cognition. An interesting read! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it www.science.org/content/arti...

#SaveBrainCity protesting against budget shortcuts in Berlin 💪

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

In remembrance of Bill Labov

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"? I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers! Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC

Overreliance on English hinders cognitive science – premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) – limited cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language) (doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.015) 🐦🐦

Some avoid cycling in wet and cold weather, but this is exactly why it’s my favorite bike commuting season! Only the most committed and agile cyclists are out these days 🥰 riding is smooth! 🚴‍♀️💨 P.S. be extra cautious about car drivers—they seem even more reckless and dangerous in this weather 😱

PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable. plos.org/redefining-p... #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

We are offering two PhD Fellowships to promote collaborations between the MPI, Centre for Language Studies and Donders Institute. The hiring departments are Multimodal Language and Language & Genetics. The application deadline is 6 Jan 2025. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great saragironicarnevale.com Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

At envisionBox we are now also collating downloadable multimodal communication datasets! envisionbox.org/multimodalda... Please reach out if were missing anything.

„Wir müssen das Problem benennen: An Universitäten kommt es häufig zu sexualisierter Belästigung und Gewalt“ Interview mit Sarah Bellows-Blakely zum Internationalen Tag zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen ➡️ www.fu-berlin.de/campusleben/...

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

Move over bouba-kiki! New study on crossmodal iconicity shows [r] = rough and [l] = smooth, even in langs that conflate them. The results show "that speech sounds are not just acoustic objects, but they also have a texture and a shape to them". #iconicity 🐦🐦

RIP Kristian Tylén. I had been unaware of his illness so this really took me by surprise today. A real loss to the field, to his family, and to humanity. arts.au.dk/en/news-and-...

I recently found this. After coming to Germany, I had to work different jobs: as nursing staff, in a factory, and various office jobs. At some point, I began to study, for a long time working two jobs on top of that. I feel strong that I did that, but do my future employers in academia see that?

This cool study by @acwiek.bsky.social, @susfuchs.bsky.social @mperlman.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social and co-authors being reported by Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

I'm excited to share our new study on cross-modal iconicity from our special issue in JASA! We show [r] is rough and [l] is smooth even in languages that conflate them within one phoneme. The effect is even stronger than the bouba/kiki effect!

And we have one more new paper on #iconicity in JASA looking at gender vs. size cues in pitch. A valuable #sociophonetic perspective on the frequency code by Sasha Calhoun and colleagues! pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

New article in our special issue on #Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA showing how #vocalizations differ in their iconic potential from interjections — bridging phonetic and phonological studies on iconicity. Keep an eye out on Scientific American next week, too! 😉 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

New paper out in our special issue with @acwiek.bsky.social and Jody Kreiman in JASA: Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages. Enjoy reading!

ZAS Berlin is looking for a *full tenure position* in research area 2 “Language Development and Multilingualism”. You can still apply until April 18! More info here: www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/me...

I feel very grateful for this wonderful distinction, especially thankful to my supervisors Manfred Krifka, @susfuchs.bsky.social, Marcus Perlman for their continued guidance ✨🙏💙

The deadline for our Special Issue on Iconicity and sound symbolism in JASA and JASA Express Letters is approaching: **March 1, 2024** SUBMIT NOW! :) JASA: pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/pag... JASA EL: pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/page...

Don’t forget to submit your abstracts on all shades of iconicity, just a few days left!

Hybrid talk by Babajide Owoyele at DCC coming Thursday the 25th, presenting the MaskAnyone Toolkit for increasing privacy in audiovisual data for the social sciences. www.ru.nl/donders/agen...

Alex Kilpatrick and I just published a study that delves into the sound-symbolic expressions of gender in American English, using AI. We've shown that certain phonemes in names are more indicative of gender than in other words. peerj.com/articles/cs-... 1/3

Einblick in das von der DFG geförderte Projekt FLESH: Im Vicom Programm untersuchen @susfuchs.bsky.social, @acwiek.bsky.social, @sarkadava.bsky.social und Wim Pouw die Koordination zwischen Sprache und Gestik. Ein Kurzvideo dazu finden Sie hier: vicom.info/projects/on-...

Sometimes all we need is a deadline extension… Submit your abstracts on all shades of iconicity until FEBRUARY 1, 2024 😍

You like kolam? Some of my colleagues (not on bsky?) published an analysis of kolam design variation and I think it is super cool. They wrote an R package to code the designs as sequences of gestures. All data/code open. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...