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Bodo Winter

@bodowinter.bsky.social
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Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈 ❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno

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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New tenure track position call for cognitive science at UCSD: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633
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Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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ISGS Catalonia Hub @isgscatalonia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Job opportunity! Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13). More info: www.upf.edu/web/traducci...
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Research Assistant Position – Multimodal Prosody as a Fundamental Component of Language Development and Learning (TRAD-PSR-2026-13)
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For several years now, @timoroettger.bsky.social and I have been working on an online course on how to effectively communicate data. It's shaping up nicely and we can't wait to share it soon. Sign up for our mailing list to not miss the launch: making-numbers-meaningful.github.io
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Making Numbers Meaningful
Get updates about when and where we launch our online course on data communication.
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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Translation and Multilingual Communication 3-year fixed-term, teaching-focused, Sept 2026 start. We want colleagues whose work engages with communication across languages, modes, and communities. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA855/a...
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at University of Warwick
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed - Translation and Multilingual Communication) (111755-0626) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity ...
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David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Language Technologies and AI Governance Permanent post, Sept 2026 start. We want researchers working at the intersection of language, technology, and society. Languages as your home, take a look. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRY964/a...
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Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) at University of Warwick
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Assistant Professor in Language Technologies and AI Governance (111754-0626) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic job...
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New paper out. My favorite finding is the distributional semantic comparison of "hundred/thousand/million/billion etc." to indefinite hyperbolic numerals ("gazillion", "umpteen" etc.) ⬇️ And: Did you know that jigsaw puzzles are lying to you? 👀
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The first WoReLa was really exciting - second one coming up next year in Cologne, woohoo!
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike! A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner. I can highly recommend!
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This new paper in Science is also accompanied by a cool perspective piece by @mperlman.bsky.social & @bodowinter.bsky.social! #language #linguistics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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In search of meaning
The origins of language are not found in the bouba-kiki effect
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵
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Elaine Francis @ejfranci2.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Prospective graduate students: Purdue Linguistics is having a virtual open house on Friday, Nov 7 at 12:00pm EST. You can sign up here: lnkd.in/g8XimXcG Please note that I am not recruiting any new graduate students but several of my wonderful Purdue colleagues are.
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New paper led by Dara Etemady: Statistical reporting inconsistencies in experimental linguistics. Almost half (49%) of all articles contained at least one inconsistent p-value. 12% contained an inconsistency that may have affected the statistical conclusion." escholarship.org/uc/item/3736...
Proportion of articles containing at least one inconsistency / decision inconsistency. (Applied Psycholinguistics (APS), Language and Brain (BAL), Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (BLC), Journal of Memory and Language (JML), Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (JPR), Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (LAB), Language and Speech (LaS), Language Cognition and Neuroscience (LCN, formerly Language and Cognitive Processes), Language Learning and Technology (LLT), Journal of Language and Social Psychology (LSP), Journal of Child Language (JCL), and Studies in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Journal Of Speech Language And Hearing Research (SLH)).
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder!! We are hiring in Linguistics at Michigan with a focus on "AI and Linguistics" (broooaaadly construed). This is part of a cluster of positions in Psychology and Philosophy in collaboration with the Cognitive Science program. Applications now open! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/a...
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Apply for AI and Linguistics (Assistant, Associate or full Professor) | U-M Careers
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Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin! For my areas see jessyli.com
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Jessy Li
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🚨Open immediately!! (rolling application review)🚨: Postdoc w/ the amazing Tamar Gollan, Uni. Cal. San Diego, bilingual speech production and cognitive control in aging and Alzheimer’s disease psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
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Nora Duggan @noraduggan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Application for a PhD position at our department is now open! We are looking for applicants that are interested in areas of sign language linguistics, general sign language studies, or deaf bilingualism/multilingualism. Deadline is 15th Oct. Please share away! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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PhD student in Linguistics, sign language
The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph
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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300
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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
Miyagawa Shuntei's 1898 painting, "Playing Go (Japanese Chess)"
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Was fun working on this paper on negation in BSL led by Gab Hodge and w/ Kearsy Cormier and @adamcschembri.bsky.social! Paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1515/opli...
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BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses
Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negat...
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William Matchin @wmatchin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language: tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-... Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine. @snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth. w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!
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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I find it endlessly frustrating that one of the biggest empirical findings from sociolinguistics is consistently ignored. Change doesn't come from children making mistakes. Change comes from adolescents incrementing existing probabilistic patterns. I haven't read this paper but hopefully it's good.
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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“Children are not the main agents of language change” by Limor Raviv, Damián Blasi and Vera Kempe (Sep. ’25) pure.mpg.de/rest/items/i...
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Ayelet Landau @ayeletlandau.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
📣new and exciting paper alert! 📣 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ever wonder what's the rhythm of speech -- across languages? 1/10 W/ Maya Inbar and Eitan Grossman, we analyzed over 650 recordings from 48 languages, focusing on intonation units—short prosodic phrases that structure speech in time.
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A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low-frequency rhythms | PNAS
Intonation units (IUs) are a hypothesized universal building block of human speech [W. Chafe, Discourse, Consciousness and Time: The Flow and Displ...
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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st! If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #BLinguistik #linguistics
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RTG - Universität Bielefeld
Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I got the proofs today for my upcoming graphic novel about language, cognition, and visual communication and I cannot contain myself with how excited I am for this book to finally come out after working on it for 7 years 😱 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
Speaking in Pictures by Neil Cohn,  300+ page graphic novel about language, cognition, and graphic communication
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Berkeley linguistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in language revitalization! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05022
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Assistant Professor - Language Revitalization - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Super excited to share our new multimodal corpus analysis, "Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures" 🥳 Project led by our PhD student Ell Wilding and in collab w/ @jeannettel.bsky.social & @mperlman.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
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Iconic Words Are Associated With Iconic Gestures
Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...
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Jon Brennan @jonrbrennan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006
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Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano @iraideia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
📢 New publication Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones? Craving for #fieldwork in this area? Check out this book and ideas will come... I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @psylexlab.bsky.social
New book on ideophones
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&New book on ideophones: TOC
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&New book on ideophones
Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en&
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Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575
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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We are recruiting! An English linguistics professorship in Tampere (tenure track, open rank). Application deadline August 18 tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
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Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis" www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/ Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
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Linguistic Synesthesia
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Linguistic Synesthesia
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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹 We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish. 🧵1/N
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
And it comes together with a reply! It was an interesting and fruitful discussion about the iconicity of different type of r-sounds :) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reply to: Not just the alveolar trill, but all “r-like” sounds are associated with roughness across languages, pointing to a more general link between sound and touch - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Reply to: Not just the alveolar trill, but all “r-like” sounds are associated with roughness across languages, pointing to a more general link between sound and touch
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New review/theory/argumentative paper is out: "The size and shape of sound: The role of articulation and acoustics in iconicity and crossmodal correspondences". The paper delves deeply into what phonetic and cognitive mechanisms underpin spoken language iconicity. Link: doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739
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Job opening: Two PhD positions for the neurocognition of the grammar of visual narratives (22739)
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Alex Lorson @lordlorson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So excited to be in Eugene this summer for the LSA Institute! ✨🌻
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Tsung-Lun Alan Wan @tsunglunone.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Fancy working in Taiwan? We're looking for a laboratory phonologist! Hsinchu is 30 mins away from Taipei by High Speed Railway, and the shuttle bus from our campus to the HSR station also takes around 30 mins. Questions are welcomed! fl.nycu.edu.tw/2025/03/20/%...
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【徵聘專任老師】Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Laboratory Phonology/Phonetics – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University – 外國語文學系 外國文學與語言學碩士班
We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise in cognitive linguistics, computational modeling, corpus linguistics, and/or neurolinguistics. The successful applicant will receive an independent lab space, startup funds, and housing accommodation support for three years.
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. #linguistics #evolution #academia #phd www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our PhD student @joannemccuaig.bsky.social is presenting online next Tuesday @baal-health-sig.bsky.social, woohoo! Talk is called: "Seems like everyone has trauma these days": A positive discourse analysis of mental trauma
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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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!
A picture of Torun oldtown at night in winter
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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Super excited to be giving a course on iconicity at the LSA Summer Institute this year... and wow, what a line-up they have in terms of courses and speakers: looks like it will be a fun time! More info and registration is open here: center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/
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Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New paper out! Was fun to collaborate with Gab Hodge, Kearsy Cormier, and Elizabeth Manrique on this corpus analysis of how polar/content questions are marked in BSL. Link to paper: doi.org/10.1515/ling...
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Manual wh-signs and English wh-mouthings differentiate BSL content and polar questions
How do deaf BSL signers signal polar and content questions? This study quantitatively investigates the manual and non-manual forms used to signal polar and content questions during dyadic conversation...
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AbstractionERC @abstractionerc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
📢 ABSTRACTION presents: A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction! 🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time) 📍 In person: Bologna, IT 💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S 🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer) Don’t miss it!
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Caterina Villani @caterinavillani.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New #OpenAccess paper! Thanks to @bodowinter.bsky.social Glenn De Muynck @annaborghi.bsky.social Luisa Lugli 📌 Spatial gestures, actually attested in numerical discourse, impact random number generation. However, the effect is small, with no strong evidence for cultural or individual differences!
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Open hands, large numbers: manual gestures influence random number generation - Psychological Research
Several studies suggest that numerical cognition interacts with spatial cognition. Here, we explored spatial-numerical associations through the lens of manual gestures. We asked English and Italian pa...
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Bodo Winter @bodowinter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation). There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
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