Come join us in Ling&Comm@UoB here in Birmingham, England, as an Anniversary Fellow/Chair! fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk

Very proud of this research on how viewing angle (side, front, etc) impacts BSL comprehension. Excellent work by the whole team (Bodo Winter, Diar Abdlkarim) but most of the credit needs to go to the fabulous freya Open access link: nature.com/articles/s4159…

PhD Call 📢📢📢 Are you interested in a PhD in Cognitive and Social Neuroscience? Join us! We are looking for highly motivated and inspired future researchers! Waiting for you in Rome! 🗓️ Deadline 20th June Useful links 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Extremely happy to announce that this week, I received my letter to confirm my promotion to Full Professor 🥳 I cannot thank enough the many people who have helped me along this journey, especially my incredibly supportive and collegial department. THANK YOU!

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...

Note that our departmental name will be changing to the Department of Linguistics and Communication on 1st August 2024! This change reflects the fact that we now offer degrees in English Language and Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Digital Media and Communications. 😊

From today, we have a new department name. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics and Communication at Uni of Birmingham!

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at Universitetet i Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

New experiment out in JASA showing that trilled [r] is matched to a rough/jagged shape in 28 languages. Languages with trilled [r] as primary variant show a dampened effect. We discuss implications for the role of acoustics vis-a-vis articulation in sound symbolism.

New paper by our team, led by Vinicius Macuch-Silva "Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information". Link here: doi.org/10.1080/016385…

Thanks for the compliment! This was SUCH a fun project to work on, and we're super happy with how it turned out.