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Bonnie McLean

@bonniemclean.bsky.social

PhD student at Uppsala University iconicity and ideophones are the best words 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇯🇵🇦🇺🌈 bonniemclean.net she/her

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Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy to see our chapter in Capturing Expressivity is now out! Our best dreams of all the wonderful ways you can explore #ideophones! 😍

Mark Dingemanse@markdingemanse.net · last yr.

New paper! @bonniemclean.bsky.social & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones — reviewing a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of #ideophones. ideophone.org/new-methods-... ⛓️‍💥 PDF pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/... #iconicity

Two panels (of a larger 8 panel illustration) showing two methods for ideophone research. Left, Multimodal corpus building, used for identifying ideophones, exploring usage domains, orienting ideophones in the wider linguistic system. Right: stimulus-based elicitation, useful for mapping the edges of the ideophone lexicon, uncovering limits, and exploring depictive conventions. Picture used for left is a camera with microphone on a tripod. For right, hands exploring materials (a sponge, a transparent foil) and a tablet showing the image of a waterfall.
Timo B. Roettger@timoroettger.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely. 🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25 ⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25 shorturl.at/vSTZx

Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

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Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · last yr.

Super excited to run these experiments, thank you to @gorillapsych.bsky.social for funding curiosity-driven research! 🎉

Gorilla Experiment Builder@gorillapsych.bsky.social · last yr.

Bonnie May McLean – Linguistics @bonniemclean.bsky.social's research explores iconicity—the resemblance between word forms and meanings—in language evolution. With her grant, she’ll conduct an online experiment with 🦍’s Multiplayer to model how an artificial protolanguage develops over time.

Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sharing a new paper with Kimi Akita, Jiyeon Park & Arthur Thompson. We introduce a new concept of "phonosemantic maps" for typological research on #iconicity, inspired by @haspelmath.bsky.social's semantic maps for tracking patterns of grammaticalistion. Enjoy! www.bonniemclean.net/news/2024-04...

✨New paper - Phonosemantic maps for exploring iconic associations

Our new paper on phonosemantic maps for exploring iconic associations is out in the JASA special issue on Iconicity and Sound Symbolism 🎉

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Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important #stats thread. Relatedly, it's also important to remember that it doesn't make sense to talk about error control under misspecified models. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Errors in Statistical Inference Under Model Misspecification: Evidence, Hypothesis Testing, and AIC

The methods for making statistical inferences in scientific analysis have diversified even within the frequentist branch of statistics, but comparison has been elusive. We approximate analytically and...

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt@betanalpha.bsky.social · 2y ago

Incidentally this synergy is also why developing adequate models are so important in applied analyses.  Models that are too rigid will often contorts themselves to fit observed data, pulling the individual parameter inferences away from their proper generative interpretations.

Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · 3y ago

Why does no one warn you the sleep loss of having kids actually starts during pregnancy already? Was planning to have this lovely time to farewell sleeping in but instead my body is waking me up earlier and earlier with each trimester 😭 Such betrayal!

Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · 3y ago

Awesome innovative #ideophone compound just witnessed in Japanese. The caption says my legs are shaking gakuburu gakuburu, which is a combination of two ideophones, gakugaku (sound of shaky legs, e.g. knees knocking) and buruburu (depicting a shaking movement). Love it! 😍🐶🌨️

The image shows a dog in the snow for the first time. The caption says 足がガクブルガクブル (my legs are shaking gakugaku and buruburu)
Bonnie McLean@bonniemclean.bsky.social · 3y ago

Reading a review paper on abstract concepts. Very surprised to read colour-emotion associations are apparently found to be stable across cultures. So I check the study they cite of 30 "nations" (weird choice of unit). Look at the language family column, and also the double counting of languages

The table shows 90% of the languages in the study are Indo-European. English is in there 4 times and Dutch twice, once for Belgium and once for the Netherlands
Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach@mariazielenbach.bsky.social · 3y ago

Yesterday, the account @lingdiscovery posted a thread on twitter with the title "Here are 3 reasons why I hate conlangs". In reply, I wrote this blog post that asks the question: What are Conlangs Good For? halmahera.hypotheses.org/700

What are Conlangs Good For?

This blog post is a reply to a twitter thread titled “Here are 3 reasons why I hate conlangs”. I show where the author of the thread is wrong in my opinion and explore what conlangs are good for.

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