Showing how: Adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children. New paper by Emanuela Campisi, @anitaslonimska.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813

Showing how: adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children

Abstract. Human communication often involves spontaneous teaching, a capacity central to cultural evolution, in which representational gestures (e.g. showi

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Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adult. Final version by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social , @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464

Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults

According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...

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Excited to co-teach Multimodal Minds this June with @anitaslonimska.bsky.social! See below for more information. www.ru.nl/en/education...

Multimodal Minds: Language, Gesture & Sign for Human and Non-Human Interaction | Radboud University

In this summer course, you'll explore how speech, gesture, and sign languages shape meaning and cognition in interaction.

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📣📣📣Multimodal Relevance : Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults by gazing at their gestures . New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults. New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults

According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...

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New open-access paper with @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults

According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...

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You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJb...

Anita Slonimska@anitaslonimska.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees! See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟

Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl ✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨

Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics@mpi-nl.bsky.social · last yr.

Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....

New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages

Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....

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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching! 🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration. For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration

Perfectly (but unintentionally) timed with ASL Signbank moving their site, I finished of a complete re-write of the {signglossR} #RStats package 👋🏻🤟🏻 Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷 github.com/borstell/sig...

Julie A. Hochgesang@jahochcam.bsky.social · last yr.

In honor of the new home for #ASLSignbank, I thought it was time to give #Glossgesang a home on Bluesky. What's #Glossgesang you ask? Why thank you for asking! It's this: Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing

If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌 github.com/ShoAkamine/w...

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism ideophone.org/oxford-unive... Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it #academicsky

Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7

Tracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysis

Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized? ...

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✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out! We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen! 🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration

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I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers! Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added! go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC

✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨ Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort. What about signed languages? ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English! aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵

A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)

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📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!! 🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025 🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub... @mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social

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Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. How do these capacities interact? In a review paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers of the MPI and Yale University propose a new ‘mind-tracking’ model of communication. Read more: www.mpi.nl/news/trackin...

Postdoc positions in math cognition & math education! The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program at UW-Madison seeks applicants interested in inclusive mathematics education and in ensuring greater participation in STEM by learners from diverse groups. More info in the flyer and via the QR code.

Amazing! Gaze-LLE, a model that estimates where people are looking! By Ryan et al (video by the authors)! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586 Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle

You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG

If you are struggling with your day, please take solace in these insightful words penned by renowned scholar Charles Darwin in 1861, perhaps the most resonant quote from his entire body of work: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything...."