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🤩 I'm at the ViCom Annual meeting - in about one hour we'll present our planned work for the second phase in our ✨emojis✨ project! #vicom #visualCommunication #linguistics https://vicom.info/

🚨 Yesterday, I received official notification that our #emoji project EmDiCom is being funded for another three years! 🥳
I'm looking forward to a lot more 🤩 emoji research 🤩 together with Patrick Grosz and Lea Fricke! #linguistics #dfg #vicom @vicom https://vicom.info/projects/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-emojis-in-digital-communication/

First day of the #ViCom statistics workshop on Bayesian regressions for language sciences 🤩 , by João Verissimo @vicom #Frankfurt

25/25 We’re up next (and last!) in the #ViCom annual meeting! We’ll be talking about our studies on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis ☺️

24/ Celina von Eiff and Stefan Schweinberger on emotion and speech perception in hearing people and cochlear implant users #ViCom

They’re looking at gestural and prosodies focus in Catalan and German #ViCom
Gesture and speech are closely aligned, eg in that the apex of a pointing #gesture occurs at the same time as the highest speech prominence (a pretty amazing feat as gesture movements are much slower than speech movements - so humans are great at aligning these different actions)

23/ The Multis project is presenting on their work on prosody and co-speech gesture #ViCom

22/ Martin Schulte-Rüther is researching visual communication in clinical applications #ViCom

21/ Šárka Kadavá is presenting on gesture / speech coordination #ViCom
They used a lab experiment where two people play charades either with gesture, speech, or both

20/ Lisa-Marie Krause is talking about pointing and uncertainty resulting from the different viewpoints of the pointer and observer #ViCom

19/ Anastasia Bauer is presenting a corpus driven approach to signs/gestures that share a form / 3rd day of the #ViCom annual meeting #visualCommunication

18/ After the group photo, the #ViCom data network is presenting their work and their plans #visual #communication

17/ after lunch: more short term collaborations on gesture, sign language, multimodality, computational tools, et al. #ViCom

16/ Now there’s a whole slate of short pitches of the short term collaborations between different projects #ViCom

15/ Short term fellow Vinicius Macuch Silva presents his project on multimodal epistemic stance taking #ViCom

14/ Sarah Schwarzenberg is looking at metaphorical iconic signs in German Sign Language #ViCom #signLanguage #metaphor

They are currently studying medieval temporal logic. #ViCom

#ViCom annual meeting day 2 starts with a presentation by Jens Lemanski and Reetu Bhattacharjee on gestures and diagrams for explaining mathematical and logical models 13/

12/ Casey Ferrara is talking about iconic modifications in words like “this day is looooooong” #ViCom

The motor system is involved in understanding #gesture, not just in producing it (Goldin-Meadow) #ViCom

11/ Invited talk by our Mercator fellow Susan Goldin-Meadow on gesture as a mechanism for change #ViCom

For Nadine, visual scenarios are a tool to study linguistic models (not the phenomenon she’s interested in) #ViCom

10/ Nadine Bade on attention and alternatives in reasoning processes - based on causal relations represented by visual animations #ViCom
She studies pragmatic inferences and fallacious conclusions

9/ Andy Lücking et al on multimodal distributional semantics for gestures, and their basic gesture research infrastructure #ViCom

Results: Yes, gestures can be lies. But we are more committed to our verbal speech than to gesture content. #ViCom

They were very active this year and did many presentations!
Their main questions: Is it possible to lie with gestures? And: Do gestures involve commitment? (a technical term; basically, how much is a speaker responsible for their gesture content)
They use experiments to address them #gestures #linguistics #ViCom

8/ now: Yuqiu Chen w/ Mailin Antomo on deceptive #gestures! #ViCom

7/ Cornelia Loos on classifiers in German Sign Language #ViCom

They elicited signs based on pictures and saw differences between nominal and verbal signs (eg mouth shapes, duration) #signLanguage #ViCom

6/ Patrick Trettenbein on parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language #vicom #signLanguage - one collaborator is tuned in via Zoom from home

4/ Sylvia Ladewig on recurrent gestures. They are partially conventionalized. She analyzes their emergence and temporal sequences, based on data from political talk shows #gestures #linguistics #vicom

Non-prototypical gestures have to resemble the event they refer to (to be felicitous), while prototypical #gestures do not #vicom