The Language & Cognition group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics will present a session on The Senses in Language and…
In their commentary on Evans & Levinson’s hotly debated Myth of Language Universals paper, Pinker & Jackendoff briefly mention ideophones — and erroneously shelve them away as ‘response cries’. What could go wrong?
ELAN is a tool for creating complex annotations on video and audio resources. It’s great for doing the hard work…
When I finished my MA thesis back in 2006 I made it available online as a gesture to the Yoruba…
There is no free ride for semiosis. Signs have a cost and a carbon footprint. Sign processes, in any form…
Not all linguists may be aware of this, but since 2007 there has been a Unified Style Sheet for publications…
Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle is one of the founding fathers of African linguistics, and 1854 was one of his more productive years: he published the first large-scale comparison of some 200 African languages (the famed Polyglotta Africana), but also a corpus of Kanuri folklore, a grammar of Vai, and a grammar of Kanuri. In the latter, he wrote about “singular adverbs which seem to be common in African languages” — one of the first comparative statements on the type of words that would later come to be known as ideophones.
With another busy summer gone, here is a post highlighting some of the stuff that’s floated by in the ideophonic…
Embedded in the Iconicity conference in Toronto is a pleasant surprise: a three-day workshop entitled Cognitive Poetics: A Multimodal Approach.…
Up next week: the Seventh Biennial Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (programme here), at Victoria College, University of…
If you’re in London and able to come to SOAS at short notice, there will be two talks on ideophones…
Just a quick follow-up on my earlier post. Foroni & Semin (in press, Psychological Science) do what I hoped somebody…
Science has just published a comment by me on Oard’s “Unlocking the potention of the spoken word” (Oard 2008). It…
Phonology Assistant (PA) is a free phonology tool by SIL that (as of version 3.0) works interactively with the data…
FeedBurner, a service for managing RSS feeds, provided us with a nice example of ideophonic language on its corporate blog…
An intriguing article in Science two months ago suggests that advances in speech processing ‘may soon place speech and writing…
Via Language Log, a nice tutorial titled Interactive Visualization for Computational Linguistics [PDF, 13,1 Mb] by Christopher Collins, Gerald Penn,…
Let me draw your attention to the newly added quote at the top right of this page: “…they are playthings,…
Great news for those who are into visual corpus linguistics but don’t work on SAE languages: since July, Wordle handles…
In a previous post I have outlined the history of the term ideophone. This post takes on three common misunderstandings…