ian joo 주이안 朱易安
@ianjoo.bsky.social
Linguistic typology. 🇰🇷 https://ianjoo.github.io
📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya! 🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
A Reddit mod thinks I don't know what I'm talking about when I say Japan is not monocultural
Excited to inaugurate my bluesky presence with this exciting preprint! Lead by the one and only Maya Inbar and together w Eitan Grossman we investigated temporal structure of prosodic units in over forty languages. Check out what we found! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A universal of speech timing: Intonation units form low frequency rhythms and balance cross-linguistic syllable rate variability
Intonation units (IUs) are a universal building-block of human speech. They are found cross-linguistically and are tied to important language functions such as the pacing of information in discourse a...
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Fascinating research - that "feeling in your gut": nature or nurture? Are your feet angry? They might have been in the past phys.org/news/2024-12...
Ancient texts reveal how Mesopotamian humans experienced emotions in their bodies
From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel emotions in our bodies, not just in our brains. But have we always felt––or at l...
phys.org
Face pots are between the most intriguing Roman vessel types. Their function is not well understood yet. Most are found in domestic contexts, but they appear as well in graves. From Vienna. 2/3rd & 4th c. CE. City Museum Vienna. #Archaeology
Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺
YouGlish is one of my favourite pages! You might already know it. Just type in a word or sentence, and it shows you videos where it’s used in context. The best part? It works with up to 20 different languages! #langsky
Are linguists still... here? How come barely anyone talks about linguistics in my feed
When Overleaf will be back up, will my works still be there?
Curious: Why do Australians and Aotearoans learn French/Spanish and not Malay/Indonesian? 1. Malay/Indonesian is spoken way more nearby 2. It's not that difficult to learn 3. Not many Australians/Aotearoans have French/Hispanophone heritage So what motivates them this choice?
7 years ago we found that writing a to-do list before bed helped people fall asleep quicker. It made the media rounds back then and somehow still continues to do so today #sleeppeeps I'm often asked if we've followed up on it...nope, couldn't get a PO to bite on an LOI. bbc.com/future/artic...
Stressed? Writing down a to-do list might help
If you find it hard to get to sleep, then a solution might be at hand – a pen and paper.
bbc.com
My latest research, "The Negativity Bias is Encoded in Language," shows that American English reinforces negative valence, making words with negative meanings more surprising and memorable. Read it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Negativity Bias is Encoded in Language
PDF | This study investigates the relationship between emotional valence, phonemic bigram surprisal, and memory in American English. We hypothesize that... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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I always wonder why this logic only applies to English. If English-speaking students use Chinese in a different way, then is it also a legitimate use of a new version of Chinese?
Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 2y agoErrors by international students in their academic writing might reflect not a poor grasp of English but rather a legitimate use of new versions of the language, according to researchers #AcademicSky #highered
Most bibliography styles no longer require book publication locations: Yay Most journals still require them: Ugh
The poster session for #ALT2024 begins at 8:30am. As a non-morning person it's gonna be tough for me to leave my hostel at 7am...
A slide from my current linguistics class "The Syllable". I try to show my students both the respective basics (mainly stuff from the 80s) AND current research, such as this map taken from @ianjoo.bsky.social & Hsu (2024). I love their database, the Phonotacticon! #langsky
The Room That Doesn't Exist — Suima ㅤ
Was looking at this for a class, and was reminded it is a really amazing text. Tragic, lonely, and deeply concerning in many different ways, but wanted to share it here . . . www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death. So he brought her back as an A.I. chatbot
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him to speak with her once more?
sfchronicle.com
Fun factː Koreans cans live in Sakartvelo for an indefinite period of time without any visa. The visa-free period is 365 days, renewable by a simple visa run.
New article in our special issue on #Iconicity and Sound Symbolism in JASA showing how #vocalizations differ in their iconic potential from interjections — bridging phonetic and phonological studies on iconicity. Keep an eye out on Scientific American next week, too! 😉 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages
In this comparative cross-linguistic study we test whether expressive interjections (words like ouch or yay) share similar vowel signatures across the world's l
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If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. 📖 I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it. 1/16
#StandingStoneSunday: Göbekli Tepe, inside Building B, 2009. One of the central limestone pillars with a jumping fox. The porthole stone in the center could hint at an original entrance through the roof. 10th/9th millennium BC. #archaeology
CNN: Alcohol-with-academics sessions in #China's new "academic pubs: delve into a range of topics in the humanities & social sciences deemed politically sensitive & often censored online, such as feminism, but also more innocuous subjects like social anxiety
Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks | CNN
China’s “academic pubs” are serving up a free flow of conversation in a country well known for its censorship.
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