Lilia Rissman

Thrilled that this paper is finally out – we compared child homesigners against speakers of English, Spanish, and Chinese and found common patterns across all groups in how they described pictures of events. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Cognitive Scientists of the Eastern Great Lakes: on July 28-29 in Buffalo, @BayesForDays and I are hosting a satellite meeting for the @cogsci_soc conference! Folks can present their work, watch talks, and generally hang out. Register at: acsu.buffalo.edu/~cxjacobs/cogs…

@bdzinszer That's an interesting result – challenges the idea that typicality is dependent on naming (i.e. what is a typical instance of a word in one language may be an atypical instance of a different word in a different language). Where did you give this poster?

@wugtask Neat, thanks for following up! I'm to see what you find! I've been wishing for new ratings like that for a while. The typicality ratings we elicit are much more consistent than the labels and suggest to me that we're missing interesting latent structure. conelab.net/pubs/Gaby_CogS…

Hey CogPsych folks - what’s a reference for a categorization study w/o labels, eg: given three pictures belonging to a category (chair, desk, table) does a fourth picture (lamp) also belong to the category? Or, do two pictures (chair, desk) belong to the same category?

@bdzinszer I was suggesting how the Malt paper that you referenced could be modified to address the question that we are interested in

@wugtask I'm not sure if by "Malt task" you mean the usual (naming) or the task unique to this paper, which was the non-linguistic similiarity evaluation (put these objects together in groups). But this paper differs in including the latter. (If you already knew that, sorry!)

@bdzinszer thanks – we are basically looking for a version of the Malt task where they collected similarity judgments while also labeling the objects (e.g., bottle, jar, etc.)

@wugtask Malt, B. C., Sloman, S. A., Gennari, S., Shi, M., & Wang, Y. (1999). Knowing versus naming: Similarity and the linguistic categorization of artifacts. Journal of Memory and Language, 40(2), 230–262. doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1…

@m_zettersten W&G is right on the money but they don't test adults (although even four-year-olds don't seem to need to hear the superordinate labels, so that is relevant)

@m_zettersten (we are ultimately interested in superordinate labels like animal, but basic level labels like dog and cat are relevant too)

@BayesForDays Yep that’s a possible method - crucially with and without labels

@TraversEoin A triad task with and without labels would be relevant for our purposes also! (Eg chair, desk, computer; with and without the label ‘furniture’)

@glupyan and I are especially interested in studies that do this type of task and without labels (eg furniture). Koemeda-Lutz (1987, Brain & Language) did this but only w brain-damaged ppl.

Thrilled to share that this paper is finally out #OpenData #OpenAccess! With @laurajspeed, @wugtask, @asifa_majid, and @ozyurek_a we examined whether lack of visual experience affects multimodal language production. Summary 👇🏾 1/5 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Light verbs implies the existence of the more sinister dark verbs, which drain the words around them of any semantic content

Only a week left for our @JCoLE2022 workshop on Event role biases in language and cognition! With the fantastic line up of talks including @wugtask, @AlonHafri, @Denis_Tatone and @ebru_ger, join us online next Monday (Sept 5th)🤩 More info👇

@garicgymro In my work I have referred to this as “agent-backgrounding” - not that catchy for the public though

So what term should linguists be encouraging non-linguists to use instead of "passive voice" for sentences that—by a variety of grammatical means—obscure agency?

#MarkYourCalendars #Symposium at #CogSci2022 Universality and Diversity in Event Cognition and Language 🗓 July 30 ⏰ 8:30-10:10 EDT 👤 @wugtask, @ErcenurUnal, @ArrateIsasmendi, and Yue Ji (chair) ℹ️ cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

Very proud of my wife @designatednerd for the well-placed cat pic

Working on cognitive biases & language? Submit your abstract and attend our workshop at Amsterdam Colloquium. Invited speakers: @wugtask @drculbertson See events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2022/Work… for more info!