Stelling: bestuurders die niet eens kunnen bedenken dat je een probleem hebt als je docenten halverwege een semester ontslaat, dienen ontslagen te worden. Kan ook halverwege een semester, dat merkt toch niemand.
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🐾🌿 ¿Qué revela un simple palabra sobre nuestra relación con el Perú, sus lenguas y prejuicios? Una historia que conecta lengua, cultura y reflexiones.
Lee a @lumirobe.bsky.social, invitado por @giacomoroncagliolo.bsky.social
🧃Aquí tu jugo: tinyurl.com/25hhrssd
Time to continue with the work of the linguist that inspired my line of research the most. To P. A. M Seuren
#semanticsyntax #generativesemantics
“Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan”.
Today at the WSJ: www.wsj.com/articles/cog...
Anonymity affords the freedom to learn haphazardly. To that end:
Will non-Indigenous linguists continue to be silent on the harm that the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) causes and promotes through missionization and conversion?
#colonialism 🐦🐦
So excited about "Life in a New Language" - if you haven't checked out our new book about how migrants manage the simultaneous challenge of learning a new language and starting a new life through that language, head over to www.languageonthemove.com/life-in-a-ne... to learn more
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Dit zijn enkele van de activisten van WOinActie op BlueSky. Volg ons in de strijd tegen het afbraakbeleid van dit radicaal-rechtse kabinet.
En kom morgen, maandag 25 november, om 13u, naar het Malieveld in Den Haag om je stem te laten horen. Wij zijn er ook!
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Dit is waarom je maandag je stem moeten laten horen (Malieveld, Den Haag; 13.00) als het hoger onderwijs je lief is! Als we niet protesteren, gaan ze gewoon door. Uit pure rancune. Tot er niets meer over is.
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Introducing a bit of my work: to learn more about language and social justice, see my book with Netta Avineri. (thanks for reviews Jonathan Rosa, Robin Conley Riner, and Abutaleb Iranmehr! @appliedanthro.bsky.social @tyanna.bsky.social @pauljmeighan.bsky.social
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Would love to be added! Thanks in advance 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I know professors aren’t respected, but in the last week: a guy at my gym blamed me for the election loss, and my dental hygienist told me my job was unnecessary because everyone can teach themselves anything online. We work so hard even left-leaning people think we’re either the problem or obsolete
Photograph of Charles Darwin, with a quote next to it, taken from The Descent of Man, his book published in 1871. The quote reads: "Language is an art, like brewing or baking. It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. It differs, however, widely from all ordinary arts, for man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children; whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write."
More than 150 years after it was written, this quote remains one of the best summaries of why geneticists should study #language. In just a handful of words, Charles Darwin perfectly captures the intertwining of nature and nurture that underpins this distinctive human capacity:
Come join us as a PhD student 🧑🎓 on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 12th January! Dutch language proficiency advantageous.
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Can't wait for it to come out!
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Oproep aan de universiteitsbestuurders: sluit op 25 november de deuren
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A stacked three panel meme of a conversation between the Beckhams: "I found that all languages..." "Be honest." "The sample was typologically diverse!" "Be honest." "I didn't include sign languages." "Thank you."
New article in our special issue on #Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA showing how #vocalizations differ in their iconic potential from interjections — bridging phonetic and phonological studies on iconicity.
Keep an eye out on Scientific American next week, too! 😉
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I used Handel's earlier book to teach Sinography to Peruvian sinologists back in 2021. Looking forward to this new book. I'm sure people from all backgrounds will appreciate it!
Michael Erard always opening new paths in the field. Looking forward to it!!! Definitely not a miss!!!
I was hoping for a happier first post, but here we are