Aleksandra Ćwiek

Exactly, that’s essential beyond language! 😄

The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...

New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers

Iconicity and Sound Symbolism - Across Acoustics For a long time, it was believed that words were mostly arbitrary symbols. However, with advances in our ability to study speech, it has become clear that we must reconsider the fundamental relationsh...

What a pleasure it was to join the Across Acoustics podcast by Kat Setzer from @asa-news.bsky.social together with @susfuchs.bsky.social
We talked about our special issue on #iconicity and #sound #symbolism. It was lots of fun! Listen here:
www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis...
#langsky
#linguistics

dr Alekandra Ćwiek Gość: dr Aleksandra Ćwiek  – językoznawczyni, kieruje w berlińskim Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft projektem DFG „Elastyczność i stabilność koordynacji gestów i mowy: dowody z produkc...

We wtorek miałam przyjemność gościć w audycji Łukasza Badowskiego "Z innej planety" w Radiu RDC. Rozmawialiśmy o ikoniczności w języku. Dziękuję za zaproszenie i zapraszam do wysłuchania! 🗣💬
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Językoznawczyni: Niezależnie od kultury większość ludzi intuicyjnie łączy obłe kształty ze słowem "bouba", a kanciaste - z "kiki" Wbrew powszechnemu przekonaniu, że słowa są jedynie umownymi etykietami dla pojęć, coraz więcej badań pokazuje, że między brzmieniem a znaczeniem istnieją głębokie, międzykulturowe zależności. Zjawisk...

W @wyborcza.pl ukazał się artykuł o mojej pracy nad ikonicznością w języku, czyli o tym, jak dźwięki i znaczenia są ze sobą powiązane w naszej percepcji, niezależnie od kultury.

👉 wyborcza.pl/7,75400,3207...

#nauka #językoznawstwo #ikoniczność #polskanauka #multimodalność #langsky #linguistics

Iconicity and Sound Symbolism Iconicity and sound symbolism – long considered peripheral to linguistic theory – have emerged as central topics in understanding how language links form and me

🗣💬 #iconicity #sound #symbolism
I'm happy to share a special issue I had the pleasure to edit together with @susfuchs.bsky.social and Jody Kreiman. I'm very grateful to all the contributors for sharing their work as a part of this collection 🎉 pubs.aip.org/jasa/collect...

Iconicity and Sound Symbolism Iconicity and sound symbolism – long considered peripheral to linguistic theory – have emerged as central topics in understanding how language links form and me

Watch out, here is a collection of papers on Sound Symbolism, edited by @acwiek.bsky.social, Jody Kreiman and me in #JASA with some inspiring contributions from different scholars. pubs.aip.org/jasa/collect.... More coming soon, Aleksandra and I were asked to do a podcast.

This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃

Sorry to hear, hopefully the sun will shine through those clouds soon 🌤️

Title slide of the talk

Excited for the 1st RTG SFB 1646 & Friends Symposium today and @acwiek.bsky.social‘s talk on "The RISE of a PhD: Navigating
Chaos, Crisis, and Success in Academia."

So sorry for your loss. Wishing you strength in those times 💔

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction There are some 60 languages spoken on the Tibetan Plateau. But harsh Chinese policies mean many minority languages may not be passed down to future generations.

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction theconversation.com/...

A picture of Torun oldtown at night in winter

JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!

Such a great place to work and live in! Toruń is magical and the CLES group makes it even better. If you’re looking for a postdoc, this is an opportunity to go for!

How do sounds connect to meaning? 🎙️👀
In this short video, I introduce my research on linguistic iconicity and multimodality. 👐💬

Part of #DGfS macht Schule, a video series that highlights why #linguistics matters in education. It’s in German – take a look! 🎥

University lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics University lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics

The University of Helsinki is looking for a lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

a picture of Torun old town in winter

JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!

Another great paper from our special issue on #iconicity and #sound symbolism!

There are still some more exciting papers to come and soon we will be compiling them to an amazing collection. Thanks to all the contributors! ✨

Rrrrrrrrrrrr: Warum wir weltweit dasselbe bei diesem Laut fühlen Nach welcher Logik haben Urmenschen Laute geformt? Um dem näherzukommen, testete eine Berliner Linguistin, was wir mit zwei markanten Lauten verbinden. Das Ergebnis gleicht sich über Kulturen hinweg.

Abwechslung zwischen den Bad News: Die Luingistik hat untersucht, wie wir das gerollte R wahrnehmen (bin ja persönlich Fan von dem Laut 😄). Was das für die Frage bedeutet, wie sich Sprache einst entwickelt haben könnte, hat mir @acwiek.bsky.social erklärt.(T+)
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/rrrrr...

Rrrrrrrrrrrr: Warum wir weltweit dasselbe bei diesem Laut fühlen Nach welcher Logik haben Urmenschen Laute geformt? Um dem näherzukommen, testete eine Berliner Linguistin, was wir mit zwei markanten Lauten verbinden. Das Ergebnis gleicht sich über Kulturen hinweg.

I’m super happy to be featured in an article written by @evamurasov.bsky.social in the @tagesspiegel.de about our studies on R/L and bouba/kiki 💭🗯️ please look also at the great illustration that comes with it! 💥✨
www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/rrrrr...

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure Analysis of the terms used for emotions across a sample of 2474 spoken languages reveals low similarity across cultures.

Words for emotions are differently connected in human groups from various regions and language families. Emotion experiences may vary across cultures. Analyzing the diverse ways that people use language can yield insights into human cognition. An interesting read! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Midnight started at around 9:30 pm and ended around 2 am where we live (Moabit/Wedding) 💥Luckily, we weren’t affected by the major pipe burst!

I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it “I wish funding agencies were more open to supporting scientists who want to stay rooted to one location,” this scientist writes

I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it www.science.org/content/arti...

Perhaps ConceptNet could be useful

#SaveBrainCity protesting against budget shortcuts in Berlin 💪

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

In Remembrance – Væl Space

In remembrance of Bill Labov

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

Sound Symbolism in the Lexicon: A Review of Iconic‐Systematicity Sound symbolism refers to associations between language sounds (i.e., phonemes) and particular properties (e.g., certain shapes). For example, phonemes like /m/ are associated with roundness, while p....

Does sound symbolism show up in real language? Do real words for spiky things sound "spiky"? Words for small things sound "small"?

I'm excited to share this new review paper summarising the existing work by myself and many others on these questions!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazing, David, thank you!