Giulia Loca

“I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.” ~ William Labov (1927–2024) 1/5 #sociolinguistics #linguistics #dialects #accents #AAVE #BlackEnglish #NYC

Had such a great time presenting my work at my first conferences #WoProc2024 & #AMLaP2024 ! Thank you for the interesting discussions and suggestions. Now, I am looking forward to starting my PhD on the ERC project @ERCbravenewword with @MarelliMar at @unimib this November🥹🧠🔜

🎤 Just presented at #AMLaP2024! "Be the wapple of my eye: Predicting the sensorimotor pattern of novel words from language-based representations" by @giulialoca_, Simona Amenta & @MarelliMar. 📈 The presentation was very well received. Thanks for the incredible feedback!

Over the past weekend at the International Word Processing Conference, we presented our findings on how adults process novel words, integrating psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. @ERCbravenewword (@MarelliMar, @RBonandrini, Iva Saban, @fabio_marson, @giulialoca_)

Can we ground nonwords? We trained a model using fastText and the Lancaster Sensorimotor Norms to predict sensorimotor patterns of 27,136 nonwords. Results suggest nonwords can be linked to experiential traces via their sub-lexical units. Learn more from @giulialoca_ at WoProc!