Attention, #psycholinguistics or expeirmental #linguistics people! Or maybe experimental #psychology people too. Do you recognize these images? A colleague dug them out of the dusty recesses of her archives, and we think they must be some set of standardized image stimuli, but we don't recognize which ones. These images were last edited 20 years ago, so it's an older archive of image stimuli.
Any ideas which archive of image stimuli might have produces these pictures?
🆕 blog! “Forget Subtext - People Don't Even Get Surtext”
Once in a while, you'll see some blowhard railing about the modern world. I recently saw someone decrying the fact that Star Trek had "gone woke". This Star Trek? OK, you can argue about whether Kirk and Uhura were forced to kiss in that episode. But how does anyone look at Star Trek - with […]
The younger generation seems to have inverted its meaning to "figuratively", but positioning is key to deciphering the meaning.
"He literally couldn't fix his own bike.", new use, meaning figuratively, he could, but you're hoping to make a point with this over-the-top example.
"He couldn't literally fix his own bike", classic use, obvious and safe low-ball example, he really couldn't. Might precede "but", to something he could.
I notice people around me using "less/lesser" for everything in place of "few/fewer". In a hundred years, maybe we'll have done away with the countable/uncountable noun distinction entirely. #linguistics
I've been teaching a 1-unit freshman seminar on Klingon language this semester, which I kind of use as stealth Intro to Linguistics by means of Star Trek. A total of 15 contact hours over the semester isn't going to instill much language competence, after all, so we may as well do a little sociolinguistics and a little language technology and so on on the topic of Klingon while we're at it. Today I held a movie day/afternoon for my students to celebrate end of the semester. We watched Trouble with Tribbles (TOS), Trials and Tribbleations (DS9), and the Trouble with Edward (Short Treks). I think the students had a great time. The female students were a bit freaked out by how people talked to and about women in the 1960's (e.g. "the pretty little lady" for Uhura). Everyone enjoyed how the DS9 characters were spliced into the TOS footage. The students noticed that even the tribbles looked better made and higher quality fabric in DS9 than in TOS, which I hadn't thought of. They had fun with the changes to how Starfleet uniforms are represented over time, especially in the SNW-era Short Trek. At least one student is now planning to watch DS9 this summer. Whether I succeed in turning them into linguists or not, maybe I can turn them into Trekkies. #StarTrek#linguistics
Is there a #linguistic term for an interlocutor saying the last word of the previous speaker’s sentence in unison with them? Not just occasionally or when the previous speaker is having trouble recalling a word, but nearly every sentence, possibly even when that sentence is not the end of a turn? I’m looking for articles or research about this out of personal curiosity.
Join us TODAY 4:00–5:30 CEST for #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas at the University & City Library of Cologne or online for a session in which we ask "Are most published research findings false? Do we have replication crisis in the humanities?".
Our guest speaker today is Clara Stumm from the University of Bonn. Clara will share her personal insights into conducting a replication study in #linguistics and will launch us into a tea-infused discussion on #Replication and #OpenScience! 🫖
"Throughout his life, Skeat supported the OED by his reviews (today it seems incredible that once not everybody praised Murray’s work) and kept chastising his countrymen for their ignorance and stupidity when it came to philology. He never stopped complaining that people used to offer silly hypotheses of word origins, instead of consulting the greatest authority there was."
In addition to executive function, bilingual individuals and children show advantages in metalinguistic awareness. This is the ability to think about language as abstract units and associations.
@TheVulgarTongue@histodons I love seeing these posts from A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. I always learn something new. I had to look up “cant.” Pretty cool! Reminds of Belter or Grounder languages. #TheExpanse#The100#linguistics
Our new series "ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas" starts this coming Monday 16:00-17:30 CEST at the University of Cologne and online! 🍵 🍪
We begin with "Mind your p-values! The pitfalls of statistical significance testing", with Job Schepens, statistical consultant at the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University Cologne. #linguistics
Looking for literature on German in the Netherlands for a sociolinguistics class next semester!
I'm especially interested the German-speaking communities abroad (who is part of it, what languages do they speak) & language ideologies around German in the Dutch context. Thanks! ☺️
Johnson & Ettlinger (2010) did a very nice study that showed people are better at distinguishing an unfamiliar vowel from a familiar one, even if the contrast is one that doesn't exist in their language, than they are at distinguishing two unfamiliar vowels from each other even if the contrast between the two vowels is familiar.
It's experiment time again, friendoes! Anyone local to #Glasgow want to do a pupillometry experiment at Glasgow University? Needed are native #Scottish English speakers, age 18 or older, with normal or corrected-to-normal vision or hearing.
@acrousey I wish I could use fruit and veg emojis without worrying about sly secondary meanings. I wish there was a signifier to indicate I mean this just literally as the object
I don't have need of eggplant but it hurt to lose watermelon and have to avoid anything long and narrow like pea pod haha
I’m currently reading the 2024 edition of the Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics and I loved every chapter I’ve read so far! This is a must read for anyone interested in the latest research in the field of Forensic Linguistics.
Is society getting swearier? Vox's Constance Grady thinks we might be, and looks into what the f*** is going on, as well as what was considered obscene in days of yore. (In medieval England, the four-letter words we use to describe bodies and sex were thought of as normal descriptive language, but woe betide you if you said "zounds," which was derived from "Christ's wounds.") Tell us in the comments if you find swearing offensive.
New diamond open access journal 'Syntactic Theory and Research' to be founded by former editors of Syntax, resigning from editorial positions due to errors made by Wiley-Blackwell in publication process vs free labour expected of authors/reviewers/editors @linguistics@academicchatter#syntax#linguistics#OpenAccess#AcademicPublishing