This is a the second part in a two part series of peer commentary on a recent preprint. The first…
One of the benefits of today’s preprint culture is that it is possible to provide constructive critique of pending work…
Readers of this blog know that I believe serendipity is a key element of fundamental research. There is something neatly…
It’s a common misconception that iconicity or sound symbolism is universal, perpetuated in part by the almost universal success of famous experiments involving pseudowords like bouba and kiki. But iconicity in natural languages is much more messy than paradigms like bouba-kiki suggest. Which begs the question, what do we really measure when we measure iconicity? This is what our new paper investigates.
What do words like waddle, slobber, tingle, oink, and zigzag have in common? These words sound funny, but they are also iconic, with forms that resemble aspects of their meanings. In a new…
I’m happy to co-convene a session to take place at the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Nishinomiya, Japan. The session…
New! Some of this is now published here (open access, free for all!): Dingemanse, Mark. 2020. Between Sound and Speech:…
Last week I was happy to present my work at a workshop on Ideophones and nonlexical vocalisations in Linköping, Sweden, organised…
Just out in Glossa, the premier open access journal of general linguistics: Dingemanse, Mark. 2018. “Redrawing the Margins of Language:…
In late 2011, I defended my PhD thesis and submitted two papers on ideophones. One to Language and Linguistics Compass,…
Making and breaking iconicity was the theme of a plenary lecture I gave at the 6th conference of the Scandinavian Association…