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Lauren Gawne@superlinguo.bsky.social |
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Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
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Lingthusiasm
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Have you ever seen a sign saying "The city's best pizza" or a mug saying "World's greatest teacher" and been...skeptical? In this bonus: why comparatives go weird sometimes, why funner is more logical, can you be more unique, and more on comparatives!
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Gretchen McCulloch
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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ARC Tracker
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❗️Everyone sign this new petition❗️
🔗 www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
PhD students shouldn’t be in poverty. Simple as that.
The Universities Accord said #RaiseTheStipend, but nothing’s happened.
Tell parliament you want action!
📢 And tell everyone you know in Oz to sign as well❗️
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Lauren Gawne
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The choices you make in your language and aesthetic to create a style (or register) that comes with a bunch of identity stuff. So in RS's talk, men in China are using creaky voice to be "more masculine", the same feature is marked differently in English and is associated with women.
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Lauren Gawne
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This is a highly competitive market, and streamers use everything at their disposal to get attention, including voice. @rlslinguistics.bsky.social sharing work done with students on three voice phenomena: clip voice, fizzy voice, and ASMR. #methods18
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Lauren Gawne
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Now bring introduced to live streaming and vlogging in China, where there are around 15 million live streamers. There's production companies and this is a serious industry in China. #methods18
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Lauren Gawne
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Lecture theatre of linguists learning about commodity registers on social media. You say "goblincore" and coconut girl", Starr says "enregisterment-rich setting"
(There's some good incidental dark academia happening in the crowd!) #methods18
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Lauren Gawne
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Today's plenary at #methods18 is from @rlslinguistics.bsky.social
Pursuing Sociolinguistic Diversity in Enregisterment-Rich Settings
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Lauren Gawne
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Emblems: Meaning at the interface of language and gesture: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
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Lauren Gawne
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I have not seen this! Extremely delighted by it. Looking forward to using it on the next cat I encounter!
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Lauren Gawne
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I look forward to you pitching this book to me in our next meeting! (we haven't done a language learning in fiction episode!?! already mentally starting to build a list!)
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Lauren Gawne
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This paper took four years and contributed significantly to my gesture library as I tracked down all kinds of wonderful books. Grateful to Kensy, the reviewers and editorial team at Glossa. Thanks to Mark Dingemanse for his peer review. It's always a pleasure to get feedback on a paper from Mark.
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Lauren Gawne
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This paper summarises what make emblems, how they relate to spoken language, signed language, other gesture categories and other phenomena. Also a published survey of the known literature on emblems across the world’s languages (we need to do better at documenting the world’s diversity of emblems!)
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Lauren Gawne
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New Research Article: Emblems: Meaning at the interface of language and gesture All about gestures like: 👍✌️👌🤷 With @kensycoop in @glossa_oa. I'm so proud of this one.
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Lauren Gawne
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This interview with Jacq Jones is an absolute delight. Gender! Voice! Shirt Buttons! Why R is such a weird sound to make!
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Lauren Gawne
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I was delighted to get the chance to review "How to Talk Language Science with Everybody" by Laura Wagner and Cecile McKee. Full review in Language, overview on the blog: www.superlinguo.com/post/7535073...
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Lauren Gawne
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Don't worry, almost no one knows what's happening in their own mouth.
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Lauren Gawne
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The Linguistic Data Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance have a survey asking what educational/general resources linguists need to support Open Science and sharing of linguistics research data.
nettskjema.no/a/openlingui...
It took me ~10 minutes! Closes Aug 1st. #lingdata
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Lauren Gawne
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We knew this before the current generation. I'm forever citing the 2021 #stochasticparrots paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
(you don't have to buy the AI tulips, but I get that it's hard work to push back)
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Lauren Gawne
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And just because I didn't get to it in the original thread: - AI systems use terrible amounts of compute power, electricity and water - These systems are resource intensive - These systems have the limitations and biases of the training data baked in
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Lauren Gawne
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Thanks to people who pointed out that AI trawling the internet is probably fair use. My main takeaway from this is that it's ok to still not like companies profiting off the IP they harvested from human-created content.
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LingComm
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The 2024 LingComm Grants have been awarded!
Congratulations to
@emrem.bsky.social, Linguistics Coloring Book
Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic
Get the Reference Podcast
English Parliament radio show
Irene Lami, Saussure e Grida
Thanks to supporters who made this possible!
More:
lingcomm.org/grantees/
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Lauren Gawne
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Lingthusiasm Episode 92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode lingthusiasm.com/post/7506845...
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Lauren Gawne
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Why hello there 🤩
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Lauren Gawne
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I'm so grateful for the way you and everyone at DAIR articulate the limitations of these models, the problems with the bubble, and the reasons we should care. Truly a balm in these trying times.
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Lauren Gawne
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Years of watching @janelleshane.com mess around with these models has made it just so clear to me that any benefit from these models comes with (a) skill and mastery in using them for the right job (b) bucket loads of human curation.
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Lauren Gawne
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If you've been thinking "I don't get the hype, it's AI is just generating factless slop" - you're actually right!
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Lauren Gawne
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The latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri is a great listen for academics and researchers on the topic of generative AI coming for our jobs (badly): www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/
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Lauren Gawne
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I'm grateful to @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social and others who have been speaking on this persistently, before the current generation of commercial models.
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Lauren Gawne
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- Generative AI can't do facts - Generative AI can't reason - Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history - No incremental improves are going to change this
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Lauren Gawne
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It's worth patiently and persistently pushing back against AI hype in your workplace to try and counter the bubble evangelists
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Lauren Gawne
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Australian linguists, we're running a themed session on linguistics undergraduate teaching at ALS in November! Looking forward to hearing your experiences!
als.asn.au/Conference/2...
Happy to be working with a team of absolute legends: Jill Vaughan, Rose Billington, Ksenia Gnevsheva & Jess Kruk
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Lauren Gawne
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I had the chance to read and review Thinking With Your Hands from Susan Goldin-Meadow, and it's a charming and well-honed tour through a life-time of research from a pioneer of Gesture Studies:
www.superlinguo.com/post/7496756...
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Lauren Gawne
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I think the main technically problem with including directional zwj-ing is that Unicode already had a lot of directionality stuff going on under the hood with writing system variation, adding more could mess with the way it interacts with writing systems that (eg) go right to left.
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Lauren Gawne
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15.1 contained a handful of horizontal flipping people, so I guess use them like heck and maybe support will be extended to others?
blog.emojipedia.org/new-emojis-i...
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Lauren Gawne
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"We are looking here at a population that is minoritized, in part, because of communicative differences... Despite the centrality of language to this situation, research in this area is led primarily by psychologists, with some speech therapists, a few sociologists, & the occasional anthropologist."
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Lauren Gawne
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I think Gretchen did a great job in Because Internet of showing how the technical and social features of the internet combine to make it impressive, but not surprising. Unicode is such an unsung hero of the internet. Printing press and telegraphy slang are obvious and fascinating comparisons.
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Lauren Gawne
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In this episode of @lingthusiasm we talk about EVERYTHING! 🌭🐝🌯🐶🥯🐸⌚️🎂🧅
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Lauren Gawne
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That's a great question, and one it can be hard to find reliable data on. The Unicode committee that handles emoji are definitely keen to use those insights to shape future releases, which is why tracking research is important!
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Lauren Gawne
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Also, from one gesture researcher to another, if you have any thoughts about possible emoji or research on emoji as gesture, let me know! Always eager for people with expertise to weigh in!
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Lauren Gawne
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The nod/shake proposals only really got up because they're flexible actions, not because of their specific yes/no functions. The shrug really fits with that Cooperrider et al. paper about the way Open Palm Prone crops up across cultures, it's so nifty it was encoded earlier!
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Lauren Gawne
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Very excited about the 15.1 emoji for a bunch of reasons: - new head nod/shake emoji (my proposals!) 🙂↕️🙂↔️ - lots of cool ZWJ emoji means I get to say 'zwidge' a lot - right facing emoji!! people moving in either direction!!
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Lauren Gawne
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The latest set of emoji (Unicode 15.1) are now on a bunch of devices. It's a rather unusual but very exciting update (including 2 proposals from me) - I had a lot of blog-based feelings about it:
www.superlinguo.com/post/7471389...
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Lauren Gawne
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Superlinguo turns 13 this week. In the ever-shifting online landscape I've loved having this anchor, and watching my interests and writing change over the years. I still post at least monthly. You can follow here, the mailing list, or good old RSS.
www.superlinguo.com
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Gretchen McCulloch
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The 2024 LingComm Grants are here!
Please help us share this with people who may have a linguistics communication project that needs a boost!
@superlinguo.bsky.social and I make these happen with the support of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social patrons and other generous people
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Lauren Gawne
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Very excited to have a new team-authored chapter in the Open Access book Inclusion in Linguistics, launched alongside Decolonizing Linguistics.
Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communication: Crash Course Linguistics
www.superlinguo.com/post/7455975...
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Lauren Gawne
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lang(uage) doc(umentation)
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Lauren Gawne
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Surprise intentional eggcorn! I grew up with the show and the phrase and never thought about this as the origin!
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Gretchen McCulloch
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SIX WEEKS until LingComm Grant applications are due! Send us your linguistics communication projects!
Now 4 grants thanks to the generosity of @emckean.bsky.social and friends of @kirbyconrod.bsky.social (especially send us LGBTQ+ lingcomm projects for this last one)
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Gretchen McCulloch
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It's VOWEL MONTH on @lingthusiasm.bsky.social and to celebrate we're offering a special sale on diacritics!
Normally, supporters at the level to sponsor an IPA character get a maximum of ONE diacritic on it, but join this month to get TWO diacritics for the price of one!
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