Quirin Würschinger
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Some sequences of words are produced word by word, e.g. 'my aunt likes milk', others as larger chunks, e.g. 'needless to say'. If you want to contribute to research in this field, please complete this short questionnaire https://t.co/MzYrlMpvUp and retweet this post.
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And here’s a short AI converstional podcast on our paper:
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New article out! With @wuqui_ "Semantic change and socio-semantic variation: the case of COVID-related neologisms on Reddit" - Read on https://t.co/8QcGLsWGQA
@degruyter_pub #neologisms #semanticchange #covid19
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COVID-19 has triggered innovations in science and society globally, leading to the emergence or establishment of formal neologisms such as infodemic and working from home ( WFH ). While previous work...
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What are the cognitive foundations of accents, dialects, registers and styles? If you want to find out, save the date of this Abralin Ao Vivo talk: 21 March 2022, 1pm (UTC).
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Linguistic variation can roughly be defined as ‘different ways of saying the same thing’. This concept encompasses a very wide range of phenomena and sources of variation, including alternations and...
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Looking forward to (and getting nervous about) giving a keynote at @AILA2021 next Wednesday. Topic: “How does language emerge from the interaction of usage, minds and communities and what does this mean for applied linguistics?”
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NEW BLOG POST: A corpus is a sample. Why don't we always think in these terms, and would our corpora improve if we did? By @jesse_egbert
https://t.co/hC5thW4AYz
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What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweetShakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Recently, I carried out a survey of ten corpus linguistics textbooks. One of my …
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How are languages formed? A wonderful question every linguist should have their own answer to. Here is my two cents in 16 tweets (probably not 100% suitable for kids):
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@JWGrieve @arieverhagen @haspelmath @dagmardivjak It's a really interesting book, I liked his metaphor that language is a bit like a Tinguely machine (referring to the drawings and machines by the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely)
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