📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya!
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4

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A Reddit mod thinks I don't know what I'm talking about when I say Japan is not monocultural

A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low frequency rhythms and balance cross-linguistic syllable rate variability Intonation units (IUs) are a universal building-block of human speech. They are found cross-linguistically and are tied to important language functions such as the pacing of information in discourse a...

Excited to inaugurate my bluesky presence with this exciting preprint! Lead by the one and only Maya Inbar and together w Eitan Grossman we investigated temporal structure of prosodic units in over forty languages. Check out what we found!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How they clear snow in Japan

When I finished my PhD and got a faculty position I e-mailed my previous MA and PhD professors to let them know.

Ancient texts reveal how Mesopotamian humans experienced emotions in their bodies From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel emotions in our bodies, not just in our brains. But have we always felt––or at l...

Fascinating research - that "feeling in your gut": nature or nurture? Are your feet angry? They might have been in the past

phys.org/news/2024-12...

I think it is at least partially a systematic problem of this interface

Or saying "nobody/everyone is X" based on personal preference

I don't mind it as long as it's for a specific purpose (e.g. can you send me your paper?) and not for scams or just how I'm doing

Latvian feels like PIE lite

A museum display: two clay vessesld, one large without handles, the other one smaller with two handles. Both have faces.

Face pots are between the most intriguing Roman vessel types. Their function is not well understood yet. Most are found in domestic contexts, but they appear as well in graves. From Vienna. 2/3rd & 4th c. CE. City Museum Vienna. #Archaeology

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.

Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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YouGlish is one of my favourite pages! You might already know it. Just type in a word or sentence, and it shows you videos where it’s used in context. The best part? It works with up to 20 different languages!

YouGlish is one of my favourite pages! You might already know it. Just type in a word or sentence, and it shows you videos where it’s used in context.

The best part? It works with up to 20 different languages!

#langsky

Yes, but there's a post like every few hours

Well... is it time to go back to Elonland again

Are linguists still... here?

How come barely anyone talks about linguistics in my feed

Why is it often a "ban" against Russian universities but only an "advice" against Israeli universities

Thankfully yes

When Overleaf will be back up, will my works still be there?

Curious: Why do Australians and Aotearoans learn French/Spanish and not Malay/Indonesian?

1. Malay/Indonesian is spoken way more nearby
2. It's not that difficult to learn
3. Not many Australians/Aotearoans have French/Hispanophone heritage

So what motivates them this choice?

Stressed? Writing down a to-do list might help If you find it hard to get to sleep, then a solution might be at hand – a pen and paper.

7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps

I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI.

bbc.com/future/artic...

What about linguists in other areas?

Where would it transcend continents, though?
Panama? Egypt?
I guess Istanbul makes sense if you count Asia and Europe as separate continents

(PDF) The Negativity Bias is Encoded in Language PDF | This study investigates the relationship between emotional valence, phonemic bigram surprisal, and memory in American English. We hypothesize that... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

My latest research, "The Negativity Bias is Encoded in Language," shows that American English reinforces negative valence, making words with negative meanings more surprising and memorable. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

...Isn't this peer review

I wonder why we need so many books on how to use ChatGPT

Is "Chinese English" isolated from American standard of English, rather than following its norms? How many Chinese people would say "this is wrong in American English, but correct in Chinese English"?

Having multiple standards, sure, plenty of languages have those. But saying that every use of it as an L2 is a standard itself is exaggerating. Spanish also has many standards, doesn't mean "French Spanish" or "Chinese Spanish" are standards like Mexican Spanish or Chilean Spanish.

I always wonder why this logic only applies to English. If English-speaking students use Chinese in a different way, then is it also a legitimate use of a new version of Chinese?