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Short YouTube video by @unibirmingham about my research interests—thanks @artsatbham for making these! youtube.com/watch?v=IHhe5u…

Thanks for the compliment! This was SUCH a fun project to work on, and we're super happy with how it turned out.

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. 🔴Deadline is 12. Jan '24 ⏲️Desired starting date is Mar/April '24 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

New paper by our team, led by Vinicius Macuch-Silva "Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information". Link here: doi.org/10.1080/016385…

New experiment out in JASA showing that trilled [r] is matched to a rough/jagged shape in 28 languages. Languages with trilled [r] as primary variant show a dampened effect. We discuss implications for the role of acoustics vis-a-vis articulation in sound symbolism.

If you’re interested in reading more on our work on multimodal numerical communication from our #FLF, feel free to check out this review/theory paper on the topic: doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.…

... can also be triggered via gesture, and that this has a real effect on perceivers. We are currently in the process of following up on these experiments by testing different quantifiers, including looking how semantic factors such as monotonicity interact with gesture. ⬇️

New paper with 3 pre-registered experiments demonstrating that gestures can influence quantifier comprehension (project part of #FLF, led by @lordlorson with Vini Macuch-Silva & @_chris_hart) Quick overview below 🧵⬇️ doi.org/10.1037/xlm000…

@ashleyrblake @H_Breadmore @paul_ccr @dagmardivjak @NickRiches1 Woohoo!! Huge congratulations!! 🥳

Delighted to have passed my PhD viva with minor corrections. Enormous thanks to Emma Hayiou-Thomas and @H_Breadmore, for insightful discussions, and to @paul_ccr for chairing. Thank you to my supervisors, Ewa Dabrowska, @dagmardivjak and @NickRiches1 for all your support. 🙌

From today, we have a new department name. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics and Communication at @unibirmingham!

@MariannaBolog That's shocking - what a waste of time! :(

Note that our departmental name will be changing to the Department of Linguistics and Communication on 1st August 2024! This change reflects the fact that we now offer degrees in English Language and Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Digital Media and Communications. 😊

I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...

@_Onurunki @ZASBerlin Great news! Congratulations 🥳

Extremely happy to announce that this week, I received my letter to confirm my promotion to Full Professor 🥳 I cannot thank enough the many people who have helped me along this journey, especially my incredibly supportive and collegial department. THANK YOU!