I will be teaching a course on “Iconicity in communication”, join us in Göttingen in the summer 🌷🌞

SPECIAL ISSUE: ICONICITY AND SOUND SYMBOLISM

A nonword rating experiment with Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and English speakers found that iconicity can mediate the semantic networks of sound symbolism without the mediation of metaphor or metonymy. doi.org/10.1121/10.002…

New paper from our special issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism. What a great work! Thanks to Kimi Akita @bonniemclean.bsky.social ☀️ Jiyeon Park Arthur Lewis Thompson 🌞

The idea that 'language' is amodal and separable from its modalities is the primary, traditional tenet of the language sciences that we argue against in our upcoming book The Multimodal Language Faculty visuallanguagelab.com/mlf

Congrats to all ERC grantees! Let's continue to keep an eye on blatant gender disparities in academia and support women and nonbinary people as much as we can 💪

It starts with everyday practices: invite more women and nonbinary people, don't burden them with admin, cite them!

researchgate.net/publication/37…

If you are interested in novel vocalization and their structure, you may read our exploratory analysis with Šárka Kadavá Aleksandra Ćwiek Bodo Winter, Wim Pouw, Bradley Walker and Nick Fay

Join us ZAS Berlin as a statistics consultant / data manager! Lots of projects from most areas of linguistics and great people to work with.

Our next MOSAIC meeting on 'Communicative Efficiency' will feature Anita Slonimska, PhD Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco & Natalia Levshina @[email protected]. We are thrilled that this session will have International Sign interpreting! 🤟All welcome!
Thur, 25 April, 2pm-3.30pm UK time (contact Jonas Nölle @[email protected] for Zoom link)

Women in academia do 75% of #AcademicHousework

It tracks kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

New paper with Dr Alexander Kilpatrick and NGAI Chun Hau, Yutaka in PLOS ONE examines how gender is expressed in Japanese names using machine learning. Results show differences between Japanese and previous studies on Indo-European languages. #Gender #MachineLearning

Phonetics at Goethe University Frankfurt is at risk of being shut down -- sign the petition here chng.it/78wDGKTL via Change.org

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

The deadline for our Special Issue on #iconicity and sound symbolism in JASA and JASAEL is approaching: **March 1, 2024**
SUBMIT NOW! :)
JASA: pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/pages…
JASA EL: pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/pages/…

Me to R when it gives me yet another new warning that I don’t understand.

The deadline for our Special Issue on Sound Symbolism and Iconicity in JASA has been extended until *March 1, 2024*.
We are looking forward to your submissions!

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

The evolution of language and speech
books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr…
👆 This is our contribution to the Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Dan Dediu (@[email protected])