Florent Perek
275 posts
And we just can’t seem to finish off University station.
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How often do you think about how Denmark is building a railway tunnel to Germany that will reduce travel time for people by two hours and massively decrease freight distances? Under construction now and due to be finished in 2029. More or less than the Roman Empire?
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We are looking forward to our annual Summer School 🌞
This year, it will take place in September: Mo 11th to Thu 14th Sept
Join us for #CCRSS23
* Registration will open soon *
More here 👇birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…
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@AdamCSchembri I did think it was really pushy this time, with the constant text messages. I was told they would stop after I confirmed I voted with the online form, but they did not. You should at least give members the option to opt out altogether if they want to.
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The UCU lost one member I recruited because this new recruit didn't like the heavy handed approach taken to ensuring members voted.
Jo Grady@DrJoGrady
Building the union isn’t a spectator sport. This week is join the union week. I want every UCU member to pledge to recruit one new member this week. The longer the picket, the shorter the dispute. Join: ucu.org.uk/join #ucuRISING
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I've added new distributional semantic models trained on word2vec for nouns, verbs, and adjectives to my OSF repository osf.io/n324f/ Also trained on COCA and COHA, they perform better than the older 'bag-of-words' models I used earlier. Have fun!
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All set for my keynote @gac2022 ! Thanks so much to the organisers for their kind invitation!! @Eng_Lang_UoB
GIF
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Alternatively, if you know of non-CxG studies that nevertheless report results compatible with construction grammar (or even better, that have already been interpreted in this way), I'd love to hear about them too!
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Hi Twitter, I'm looking for references to construction grammar studies using experimental methods (preferably psycholinguistic) on languages other than English. I'd be grateful if you could point me to anything of that sort from your or others' work, thanks!
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Eek. It's finally out. Actually feeling quite emotional to receive my free copies just now. This was a long journey!
#aphasia #usagebased #CognitiveLinguistics #linguistics @MMUHPSC @SLTatBCU @Nicholasgroom
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@dagmardivjak @mbgantwerp @srbdts @RemivanTrijp @lauren_bliksem @evaeva_z @BodoWinter @JWGrieve @LauRomain I think it's already been mentioned, but there's a whole body of research using DSMs/word embeddings/vector-space models that is probably worth mentioning. I have some UB work myself applying the approach to the study of the productivity of constructions.
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Am writing a piece on #computational approaches in usage-based #linguistics. Which authors and papers would you like to see included?
@mbgantwerp @srbdts @RemivanTrijp @lauren_bliksem @evaeva_z @BodoWinter @JWGrieve @LauRomain @FlorentPerek
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Please hold on just dealing with some technical issues!
Ling&Comm@UoB@Eng_Lang_UoB
Happening live now!! Come and join us!
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Such an important thought and so nicely visualized: the rainbow of open science from @MichaMahlberg #CLSS2021
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In the Sinclair Lecture on Thursday, @dagmardivjak will be addressing the question: do the patterns we find in corpus data with the help of statistical techniques exist in the minds of language users? Please register for the event here:
birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…
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We are excited to announce a 2-year full-time Lectureship in TESOL!
Please see the listing:
bham.taleo.net/careersection/…
Closing date 13 June 2021
And please let us know if you have any questions!
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I've made the distributional semantic models used in my work on syntactic productivity available in an OSF repository: osf.io/n324f/ Long overdue (and they might be somewhat outdated) but hopefully they can still be useful!
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If you are wondering about the early findings of our English Constructicon project, I gave an online lecture last December in CogniTextes
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No to #ClapForCaptainTom. Of course, I admire the man greatly and am sad that he passed away, but just bloody well fund the NHS properly so people don't have to do laps of the garden to raise money for it.
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@AdamCSchembri So did they publish the letter? (The letter ends by asking for it)
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'Trump deprived of tweets: I can always use the language of the deaf and dumb'
A group of French academics has written to the Le Canard Enchainé to explain why this is not appropriate.
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@AdamCSchembri Sounds like something someone would write fifty years ago, when corpus linguistics was still controversial..
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I have received a reply from the journal of 'Language Variation and Change' about why papers on lexical variation in signed and spoken languages have been desk rejected. 1/3
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