New Cambridge Element Language Ideologies and Identities on Facebook and TikTok by GW is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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L’étude en question : biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies
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New Cambridge Element Computational Construction Grammar by Jonathan Dunn is now free to read for 2 weeks!
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GPT4's acceptability judgments on wide range of wh-questions correlate with its semantic judgments of backgroundedness (Nora Graves P '26) and with humans

The dictionary is never finished and because of this thread, we have gone back to look for earlier references and found one from Newsday in 1985.

Semantic evolution is subdiffusive in five major Indo-European languages
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The maximal number of onset/nucleus/coda and the number of tones in Eurasian lects, with Nepal and Caucasus zoomed in. Based on Phonotacticon (zenodo.org/records/106237…)

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Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines w Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦
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We survey the insights that language models (LMs) provide on the question of how language is represented and processed in the human brain.

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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow (full time - until Feb 2027) with expertise in experimental research for our new project 'Does Machine-Assisted Writing Erase Linguistic Diversity?' based in Canterbury, NZ. Please retweet!
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Jesse Egbert on how collocate lists may not be as useful for linguistic research as they appear to be

Was J.R. Firth wrong?

linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/you…

Happy to have edited this interesting paper about human-social bots interactions
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Out now: 'Corpus Linguistics and the Social Sciences'. #Openaccess article in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, with Tony McEnery. You can read it here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1… Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University

Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism
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🚨semantic networks of sound symbolism may not coincide with those of metaphor or metonymy

Now out – open access: Emotionography

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Why an interactional approach to ‘mixed emotion’ is needed.

Rutgers CA Lab 🄳 🄰 🅁 🄶 International Society for Conversation Analysis rolsi journal ASA Emotions Section Emotion Review Consortium of European Research on Emotion American Psychological Association Provost Chris L. Heavey NCA LSI ICA LSI

New paper ✨ The organization of semantic associations between senses in language, with Jorge Alvarado and Ale Salgado cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Metaphor arises in protolanguage with compositionality + selectional restrictions, and is the launching pad for the evolution of grammatical structure. Selectional restrictions transcend holistic vs isolating debate. With @Uta_Reinoehl link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Finally, we conduct a series of fuzzy cluster analyses, carefully building up a hierarchical picture of Chinese dialect regions step-by-step (which we think is much more informative than using hierarchical cluster analysis directly).

Human turn-taking development
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