#iclc16 — Public Fediverse posts

Inspiriert durch die #iclc16 und @stefanhartmann gibt es auf dem #NLK24 auch Stopschilder für diejenigen, die einfach nicht aufhören wollen. Zum Einsatz kamen sie aber noch nicht 😄

After the huge #iclc16 conference, I am about to leave for the exact opposite type of event: instead of 14 parallel sessions, just 10 talks at #rtanjLinguistics4, with ample time for discussion. I am talking about "Modification and the nature of adjectives", and I am looking very much forward to everything about this event, including traveling there via Budapest and Belgrad with first train and then bus. https://sites.google.com/view/rtanj/home

If you want to read up on #ICLC16, take a look at @jn‘s megathread starting here https://fediscience.org/@jn/110847328788583288

Still overwhelmed by the amazing experience of #ICLC16 - excellent talks, great conversations, lots of fun. Happy that we @HHU had the opportunity to host such a great event!

The sixth day of #iclc16 begins! Looking forward to the plenary by… wait, where is everybody?!?

The sixth day of #iclc16 begins! Looking forward to the plenary by… wait, where is everybody?!?

Huge props to @stefanhartmann and the whole organizing team of #iclc16 for making this a great conference!

Claudia Raihert presents work on metaphor/figurative language in discourse and other genres.
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They chose the genres news and fiction and looked at landscape and weather metaphors. Source domains nouns were generated with WordNet, then queried with COCA which resulted in 27/81 keywords.

The theme session ok communicative efficiency by Anita Slonimska and Natalia Levshina was really cool! Lots of interestingbppints raised, and great to see multimodality research represented at #iclc16

Gertraud Fenk-Ocszlon discusses working memory constraints and their implications for efficient coding of MSG's #iclc16
The more predictable, the shorter and first in the sequence. To place high info amount early would lead to cognitive overload.
WM constraints the avg lvl of information being transmitted.
WM = set of processes holding mental representations temporarily available for use in thought & action (Cowan 2017)

Alexander Koplening (with Sascha Wolfer & Peter Meyer) argues that languages trade off complexity against efficiency
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All slides on Https://osf.io/prthj/
They present a database of parallel text (many types, religious texts, legal, movie subs) and in addition comparable corpora (not fully parallel, from web crawls)
41 multilingual corpora, 2k languages, spoken by 90% of world population.

Kaius Sinnemäki with Francesca Do Garbo, Eri Kashima & Mark Ellison on communicative efficiency and language contact
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Not only discourse, but also grammar and lexicon are organized in an efficient way. But in this research multilingualism and L contact have been neglected (while multilinguism is the norm rather than a deviation).

The slides of my talk "A formal model of lexicogrammatical individuality" are now on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8233427. The talk expands on my Element ("A Theory of Linguistic Individuality") by proposing a connection with information theory for its mathematical formalisation #ICLC16

Anita Slonimska with @ozyurek_a and Olga Capirci on communicative efficiency in sign languages.
Different modalities have different affordances, like simultaneity in the visual modality.
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SLs have linear organization just like spoken language. But the visual affordance allows simultanous iconic depiction. Articulators can be organized in space so that they reflect the relationship in the event.

Anita Slonimska with @ozyurek_a and Olga Capirci on communicative efficiency in sign languages.
Different modalities have different affordances, like simultaneity in the visual modality.
#iclc16
SLs have linear organization just like spoken language. But the visual affordance allows simultanous iconic depiction. Articulators can be organized in space so that they reflect the relationship in the event.

Alexandre François presents Dialexification, a tool for studying cross-ling patterns of semantic change.
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Most studies of colexification are synchronic. To study sem change, like colex links appearing or disappearing one can study common paths via a typological database of lexical change (EvoSem) reconstructing meanings rather than forms using pairs of dialexified senses.
See tiny.cc/EvoSem_ICLC

Our theme session on *Cross-Linguistic Colexifications across Research Fields* is about to start! #ICLC16

Day 4 of #iclc16 starts with a plenary connecting phenomenology and cognitive linguistics. Jordan Zlatev on Merleau-Ponty and the intertwining of bodily experience and language.
Zlatev starts by introducing the relatively young discipline of cognitive semiotics and proposs it as a synthesis of cog sci, cog ling and semiotics informed by phenomenology.

Day 4 of #iclc16 starts with a plenary connecting phenomenology and cognitive linguistics. Jordan Zlatev on Merleau-Ponty and the intertwining of bodily experience and language.
Zlatev starts by introducing the relatively young discipline of cognitive semiotics and proposs it as a synthesis of cog sci, cog ling and semiotics informed by phenomenology.

Today at #ICLC16 @saranonpiangere and I have our talk "On responsibility perception in femicide news reports: critical analysis bridging cognitive theories and computational tools" (10:00 in room 3D). Come find us if you're interested!

You thought that the SLE band was awesome? Wait until you hear about the #ICLC16 band! The big surprise from was indeed a band! How cool is that?! Playing amazing covers and their greatest hit "Wait a minute, Mr. Postdoc" 🤩

// @alexwillich @stefanhartmann

The third day of #iclc16 ends, like every day in the life of a cognitive linguist, with the brushing of teeth as a metonymy for getting ready for bed.

The third day of #iclc16 ends, like every day in the life of a cognitive linguist, with the brushing of teeth as a metonymy for getting ready for bed.

Amazing social programme point at #ICLC16 🎉 Participants form a band and give a fantastic 🎸🎙️ performance at the conference dinner

Amazing social programme point at #ICLC16 🎉 Participants form a band and give a fantastic 🎸🎙️ performance at the conference dinner

Sterre Leufkens discusses redundancy, which has lots of advantages for languages, e.g. enhancing learning, processing and salience/robustness of messages. #iclc16
But redundancy also violates economy, transparency, and to some extent learnability, e.g. for L2 learners who favour transparency.
How do these competing motivations manifest when language is used?
Communicative efficiency means that we should not spend more effort than necessary to achieve something, so be redundant only if needed

Norbert Vanek (with Chromy, Podlipsky and Majid) asks: are words unique?
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Verbal labels facilitate category formation ad hoc (Lupyan & Casasanto 2015), even pseudo words.
But is this due to sound-symbolism?
Miller et Al 2019 showed a similar study with tacticle discrimination.

Learnt something cool in Terry Janzen's talk: in ASL, which doesn't have tense marking, signers can 'gaze' into the past (away from the addressee)
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I'm attending a panel on stance taking in getsure and sign now. #iclc16
First talk is by Clara Kindler and Cornelia Müller on stance taking in mediatised political speeches of the German Green Party.
In their project they look at expressive movement and affective stance in political debates. Expressive movements signalling Affectivity are the subject of interest. Stance taking is emergent, interacting and multimodal.

Day 3 of #ICLC16 starts with a plenary by the wonderful Kyoko Ohara about the role of FrameNet in Frame Semantics, CxG, and NLP. I've been looking forward to this!

The slides for my talks at #ICLC16 with Stephanie Lieboldt about stereotypes in newspaper texts and with
@alexwillich
about NP-external intensifiers are now online at https://katjapolitt.wordpress.com/vortrage/ - thanks to everybody who came to our talks and for the valuable comments & tips! 🙏

Maybe I should borrow this and read it overnight so that I know what my talk with @ungerer_tobias
tomorrow will actually be about #ICLC16

Last #iclc16 talk I'm attending today is by Alex Lorson with Vini Macuch Silva, Chris Hart & Bodo Winter on how gestures can influence what numbers we have in mind.
The talk taps into the association between the source domain SIZE onto numerical/magnitude targets.
Studies have shown that when asked to choose higher number, choice is faster if higher number is in larger rather than smaller font (or congruent dot size)

Last #iclc16 talk I'm attending today is by Alex Lorson with Vini Macuch Silva, Chris Hart & Bodo Winter on how gestures can influence what numbers we have in mind.
The talk taps into the association between the source domain SIZE onto numerical/magnitude targets.
Studies have shown that when asked to choose higher number, choice is faster if higher number is in larger rather than smaller font (or congruent dot size)

Vini Macuch Silva with Alex Lorson and Bodo Winter on English change-of-state verbs used to talk about quantity.
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Which constructions use verbs to signal change in quantive information?
We start with 2 verb seeds: increase and decrease, which were cross-referenced using synonyms from two dicts.
Most of these verbs also tend to be spatial, which means they are biased for goals as spatial language tends to be in Eng. Usually the target of the movement is encoded.

Vini Macuch Silva with Alex Lorson and Bodo Winter on English change-of-state verbs used to talk about quantity.
#iclc16
Which constructions use verbs to signal change in quantive information?
We start with 2 verb seeds: increase and decrease, which were cross-referenced using synonyms from two dicts.
Most of these verbs also tend to be spatial, which means they are biased for goals as spatial language tends to be in Eng. Usually the target of the movement is encoded.

Another talk by Theresa Matzinger presenting a joint work on how linguistic preference outcompetes alignment as a predictor of others cooperativeness.
#iclc16
Language is one way to assess others' cooperativeness. If we speak similar Lang to others this might facilitate cooperation (verbal coordination of actions etc), we can also use it to gossip ABT others and their suitability as cooperation partners (informs reputation).
Different languages might lead to less/difficult cooperation

10 years ago, I was one of the organizers of the International FrameNet Workshop 2013 in Berkeley (with Lars Borin, Karin F. Heppin, Miriam R.L. Petruck).

10 years later, the saga continues with the International FrameNet Workshop 2023 at #ICLC16 – starting with a talk by none other than Mark Turner!

Thanks to Tiago Torrent and
Benjamin Lyngfelt for organizing this!
https://www.globalframenet.org/ifnw-2023
#IFNW2023

Now quietly sneaking out of the plenary to be first in line for coffee. #iclc16 #conferencelife

The second day of #iclc16 begins much like any other day, naked in bed.

I'll try to toot one more talk for today #iclc16.
Tobias Ungerer on "Sneezing the napkin off the table: Mechanisms of valency coercion in eye-tracking."
Ungerer starts with the idea of grammatical creativity, like in sentences of the kind "Sharon yelled her husband out of the kitchen ", "Linda shrugged the lawyers our of her house" etcm
What are the mechanisms that allow us to comprehend these sentences in real time?

50+ tweets by 16 different people from today using the hashtag #iclc16, compared with only 12 toots by 6 different people (5 of which also post on — or crosspost from — Twitter). I guess the cognitive linguistics community has not made the move to Mastodon, but at least it does not seem to be much more active on Twitter...

Next is Maria Koptjevskana-Tamm on lexical typology and cognitive semantics, looking at the linguistics of temperature.
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Langs carve up the domain of temperature in specific ways. Some of K-T's key publications are listed on the slide below.
Even self-evident words like warm, cold etc in English are not easily translatable (e..g.distinction between pleasant warm and unpleasant hot).
Linguistic temperature systems are often heterogenic, with the two-value system being the most common.

Next at #iclc16 I'm attending the Words and Meanings session.
First talk is by Elisabeth Norcliffe & Asifa Majid: Languages differ in how they express the senses, s.g. with single or multi sense words that carve up the sense space differently.
Viberg (1984, 2001, 2015) first looked at the perceptual lexicons from a typological perspective. He found a hierarchy in which senses are most likely to be encoded in unimodal verbs.

Got lost twice and was chased by an old guy who claims he arrived in Düsseldorf in 1972 following the Grateful Dead and has been living in the bowels of @HHU 's Geisteswissenschaften building ever since, but made it just in time to @lingucat 's talk... #iclc16

Wnuk & Wodowski: Faces are major information sources for feelings and informational content.
But how are facial expressions described in different languages, and are specific languages better than others?
They compare Polish (Indo-European; urban) and Mania (Aslian, Austroasiatic; hunter-gatherer)
Lexicons for faces have been neglected in typological semantics. #iclc16

Social interaction is the habitat of language. So what happens locally in particular interactions?
In FLA, input quantity features predict quality (e.g. higher structural & lexical complexity) and has long term effects (school success, emotional well being are also predicted by L skills).
Intervention programs can teach caretakers to be more attentive and adaptive.
But controlled experimental studies still missing.
#iclc16

Heike Behrens starts the first #iclc16 plenary with a brief history of usage-based approaches to language (L1 & L2)
We now know that the input of language provides the necessary information to learn it.
Language emergence haplens at different time frames: What we need more research in is social emergence and interactional emergence.
We haven't fully looked at all the info that are available from the input (discourse skills, managing interaction, beyond just lexicon)

At the #iclc16 in a very rainiy Düsseldorf, looking forward to meeting @lingucat, @jn, @stefanhartmann, @gossminn, @demeco_project, @Thomastodont, @matthuntgardner — any other Mastodonians here?

Not sure whether I'll make it to #iclc16 in time 🤔 it appears that my suitcase is already in use

Given that no one except the conference organizer @stefanhartmann is posting under the hashtag #iclc16 I guess I won’t be seeing any of you mastodonian linguists in Düsseldorf over a nice cold glass of Kölsch beer next week?