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In today's "Iconicity" class, I ran a little kiki–bouba experiment on my students, but I wanted to expand it into including a part on "articulatory plurality"...
First off, they seemed to exhibit the expected kiki–bouba preferences.
First off, they seemed to exhibit the expected kiki–bouba preferences.
Then, they seemed to prefer (partial) reduplication over no reduplication for an inherently plural (dual) shape, even though I was deliberately breaking the kiki–bouba pattern for the sounds/letters involved...
Lastly, they also preferred a fully reduplicated form over a partially reduplicated form as a label for a shape with many individual parts!
Yay, articulatory plurality and #iconicity!
Yay, articulatory plurality and #iconicity!
@AnneliesKusters on stage at #wfd2019 presenting on the @MobileDeaf team on International Sign (IS). IS is a phenomenon that comprises a lot of strategies in various contexts.
The level of conventionalization depends on context. Formal, conventionalized IS may be used at e.g. #WFD, but vocabulary and conventionalization varies with different events and contexts. #wfd2019
IS includes #translanguaging, #iconicity, and attitudes when approaching communication. The more experiences you bring, the more resources you can use when communicating. Interestingly, many outside Europe say they struggle with IS. #wfd2019 #signlanguages
Is there any work on milk carton color #iconicity? I read a discussion online with Swedes disagreeing about the use of the word "rödmjölk" 'red milk' to mean '3% milk', because not all milk producers use the same color coding...
Most of them seem to use a ❤️💚💙💛 palette, but with different meanings. What I believe are the 5 largest milk companies in Sweden have (3%, 1.5%, 0.5%, 0.1%):
Arla: ❤️💚💙💛
Norrmejerier: 💚❤️💛❎
Skånemejerier: 🧡💙❤️💛
Milko: ❤️💚💙❎
Falköpings: ❤️💚💙💛
Arla: ❤️💚💙💛
Norrmejerier: 💚❤️💛❎
Skånemejerier: 🧡💙❤️💛
Milko: ❤️💚💙❎
Falköpings: ❤️💚💙💛
So, I grew up with Arla, sometimes Milko when visiting family, both representing the middle parts of Sweden, so for me "red milk" is definitely full fat. But apparently northern- and southern-most Swedes disagree since it doesn't map to their main suppliers.
Day 2 of #LingCologne starts with Wendy Sandler giving her keynote on the compositionality of theatrical sign language.
Wendy acknowledges the important work of Svetlana Dachkovsky ("our resident squintologist") who has done extensive work on squinting in Israeli SL, for example as a marker of shared information and subordinate clauses. #LingCologne
Facial actions — as a finite set — are grammatical across sign languages, and mostly correspond to spoken language intonation (mainly upper face). Thus, different parts of the body are composite pieces of the linguistic system. #LingCologne
Cline of construction–gesture co-occurrence. Some gestures are bound to and strongly associated with certain cxs, others are independent and combine with any cx
#pgsw19
#pgsw19
One of the independent ones are "air quotes", which can co-occur with basically anything.
'Like if you go home and your friend tells you: «How was your "business trip" to Prague?»'
#pgsw19
'Like if you go home and your friend tells you: «How was your "business trip" to Prague?»'
#pgsw19
