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Greg Woodin

@gregwoodin.bsky.social
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Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬 Multimodality, iconicity, metaphor, gesture, data science 🤏 🔢 #rstats #python #openscience 💻 🔓 www.gregwoodin.co.uk scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user…

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kirstyrgreen.bsky.social @kirstyrgreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Excited to share that the 4th and final paper from my PhD is now published in First Language: doi.org/10.1177/0142... Onomatopoeia are embedded in playful, multimodal interactions and often used to enact rather than simply label meaning. Infants' use is predicted by caregiver use in the interaction.
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Throwback to Embodied and Situated Language Processing last week at Lancaster University, where I presented our work on multimodal coordination in early word learning interactions. Really enjoyed this conference! Check out the slides here: osf.io/rjdqb/files/...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Had fun presenting our work (@gretagandolfi.bsky.social, @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) on multimodal coordination in early word learning w 3–4-year-old children and their caregivers today at Embodied and Situated Language Processing at Lancaster University. (1/4) 👇
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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
#ESLP kicked off this morning with a brilliant session on multimodality in language processing. Opening keynote by Sotaro Kita, followed by Manuela Macedonia and @gregwoodin.bsky.social ESLP2026.SCIENCESCONF.ORG
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Pleased that my chapter on iconicity has officially been published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Abstract below. Get in touch if you don't have access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...
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Bonnie McLean @bonniemclean.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such a privilege to interview Kimi Akita for SKASE about his long career researching #ideophones! Kimi's conducted some of the most fascinating and insightful work in the field, which he continues to lead into exciting new directions. Ideophone enthusiasts, read here! www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL6...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
FYI there is currently an issue with the Arabic in the article that I am trying to get updated.
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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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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
How precise are numbers? Our new article in Language and Cognition (with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social) finds that round numbers are used more approximately at higher magnitudes. (1/5) 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My current position will be coming to a close at the end of 2026, so I’m beginning to explore next steps. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at UCL working at the intersection of language, cognition, and multimodal communication. 1/4 👇
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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Does verbal coordination between caregivers and their 3-4 yo children help learning new words? New paper from the lab!
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Does verbal coordination help 3–4 year old children learn new words? In our new preprint (w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @gretagandolfi.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu), we explored 20 predictors of word learning. One combination stood out. 👇 (1/4) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📣 New paper out in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in which we investigated whether conversational alignment — the tendency to reuse each other's words, syntactic constructions, topics, sounds and gestures — can be used as a reliable individual trait. It cannot! 🧵 1/4 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Really enjoyed presenting at @asifamajid.bsky.social's lab yesterday at the University of Oxford, where I shared some initial ideas for a project exploring pitch processing in speech prosody and musical melody, microtonal versus discrete-tone music, and gesture. Great to get everyone's feedback!
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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Does verbal (lexical, semantic) alignment btw caregiver and child support learning in 3-4 years old?
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Data and analysis scripts are here: osf.io/9z5qn/overview
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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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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Really enjoyed chatting to everyone yesterday! Looking forward to another day of interesting talks. Link to poster below. (P.S. the children are 3–4 years old.)
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Excited to present this poster today (w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @gretagandolfi.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, and Yan Gu) at the 3rd International Workshop on Naturalistic Experimentation of Child Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Check out the poster here: osf.io/876ab
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
My first (physically) published book chapter. It's quite a weighty tome! Almost dropped it when the courier delivered it. Read the chapter here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So excited to see the Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language come out!! Here is my chapter on Experimental approaches to sound symbolism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Experimental approaches to sound symbolism
AbstractThis chapter explores the phenomenon of sound symbolism: associations between language sounds and particular perceptual and/or semantic properties.
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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
It’s a fantastic chapter. I’ve been giving the preprint to students.
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though): doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging? #linguistics
Screenshot of a chapter by Carl Börstell called "Iconic plurality across modalities"
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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵
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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
New work from the lab! A full multimodal picture of caregivers behaviours supporting learning in the early years answering the question: what do caregivers say and do to support their children’s word learning?
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meu periquito é neurodivergente @mahagod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is mandatory reading for all my students since it was uploaded to OSF. So glad it is finally out! \o/
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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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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026 ⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐ Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited): lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
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Antonia Jordan-Barros @a-jordanbarros.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New Preprint Alert 🚨 Excited to share our new work: “Caregivers’ multimodal actions scaffold word learning and vocabulary growth in the early years.” with Francesco Cabiddu, @eddonnellan.bsky.social, Yan Gu and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
World Linguistics Day is on the 26th of November because that's de Saussure's birthday. It's a great opportunity to celebrate linguistics. If you want more linguistics in your feed, here's a linguistics starter pack from @gretchenmcc.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... #WorldLinguisticsDay
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Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My research/conference visit to Marseille and Aix is coming to a close and it's been a real adventure. Feel very grateful to be able to do things like this as part of my job. Lots of interesting conversations, great food, sightseeing, and productive collaboration. Hope to see you again soon 👋🏻
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Marah Jaraisy @marahjaraisy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence. I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
THE LINGUISTIC LIFE OF THE KUFR QASSEM DEAF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE EMERGENCE, VARIATION, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE by MARAH JARAISI A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of  DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Supervised by Professor Adam Schembri and Dr. Marcus Perlman Department of Linguistics and Communication School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies  College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham September 2025Dedication  This thesis is dedicated to the resilient Palestinian people.

(poem) Because I am not like match sticks, I light up once… and die. but I am like the fires of the Magi: I burn… from my cradle to my grave and from my predecessors to my descendants. Long as the horizon is my breath, and I have mastered the craft of ants, gently for history is written the way we dictate

By - Tawfiq Ziad -
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Who's coming to ESLP? 🇫🇷 ☺️
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice! The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed: github.com/WimPouw/kine...
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The human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans often vocalize while concurrently gesturing with their hands. Fluctuations in the intensity and tone of the voice have been shown to synchronize with gestural upper limb movement. This research provides direct evidence that (postural) muscle ...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Pleased to have my first solo publication, 'Iconicity in language and communication', accepted for print in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 😌
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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...
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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025
Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen 'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages' Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Anyone else get Solero vibes? Crazy how colours can trigger such strong associations/feelings.
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thanks for having me! If you couldn't make it, the slides can be downloaded at osf.io/p2h95.
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Today at 1pm GMT!
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at gawoodin@gmail.com for the URL! ☺️
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Gabriella Vigliocco @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF
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The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language
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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our latest study, led by Chiara and Ben, investigates laughter mimicry and (acoustic) alignment in parent-child vs. adult conversations. Now published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Laughter is ubiquitous and crucial in social interactions. In addition to conveying meaning, it is a valuable means for monitoring interlocutor mental states and mutual cognitive alignment. Laughter h...
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Greg Woodin @gregwoodin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Does anyone know of a regular expression or some other method of identifying questions in utterances? Not all the utterances I'm looking at are transcribed with question marks, and question-indicating words like 'what', 'why' etc. aren't always the first words in the utterance (e.g., 'and why...'.
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