Just finished presenting a poster in the ‘From icon to abstraction, how iconicity shapes the lexicon’ workshop in Birmingham. Had a great time talking about iconicity with likeminded people!
You can read more about the fantastic workshop here, and find the abstract for my poster, which I worked on together with John Huisman, Arthur Thompson, and Youngah Do, below:
Finally made it to Okinawa to get all the linguistics data and eat all the food!
Top photo is of us and my mum (who tagged along) at Nakijin castle, one of the few surviving ruined castles of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and a UNESCO world heritage site!
The first paper from my thesis is now out in Language & Cognition!🎉
You can find (and cite) it below:
McLean, B., Dunn, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2023). Two measures are better than one: Combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon. Language and Cognition, 1-24. doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.9
I wrote an article for Babel’s Linguistic Horizons series, about iconicity in language change. Check it out!
If you want to know a little more about me, what got me into linguistics and, more importantly, iconicity (!) you can read my interview with Babel The Language Magazine.
Dreamed of taking this train trip since I was a kid, and what could be more romantic than taking it on our honeymoon 💕 Only thing I didn’t plan for was the Scottish weather…
Since taking this trip, I’ve read in the news that the Jacobite train service is now suspended (as of March 2024). So I’m feeling very grateful that we did it already in 2022! Read below for tips and a summary of our trip, fingers crossed the train will run again someday soon! 🤞🤞🤞
On monday evening we attended the scholarship award ceremony for the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa foundation. We got to meet the Japanese Ambassador to Sweden! It was awesome😀
I found out last week that my abstract for ICHL 25 was accepted. So excited for the first in-person conference of my PhD!
Very excited to be going to ICHL25 in Oxford. The title of my talk will be ‘Form-meaning associations drive common patterns in language change’ 😀 You can read the abstract below:
You can now find a preprint of the first paper from my PhD, ‘Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon’ on OSF Preprints!