Yes!! Very close !!

Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a Martin Haspelmath I think any claims would be premature at this stage: there’s a modality difference as Asli suggests but it’s not the case that signs don’t differ in length.

Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a Martin Haspelmath Yes indeed: frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

Adam Schembri Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Martin Haspelmath I was not alluding to the fact that signs do not differ in length but length measures ALONE are more appropriate if we are thinking of sequential expressions. We need to think of other qualities of the linguistic expressions that can take into account simultaneous properties -

Back in June I gave a talk at the Getty about the relationship of visual narratives on Greek, Maya, and Moche pottery to comics, and the video is now online! My talk starts around 1:18 into the video youtu.be/h39S9wKvpc8?si…

I’m looking forward to tabling today at Erasmuscon 2024 and speaking at 11:30 on “The neuroscience of comics”. Come on over to Rotterdam if you want to say hi!

If you've wanted to check out any of my books, like my latest "The Patterns of Comics" and "A Multimodal Language Faculty, Bloomsbury Linguistics is currently having a sale where they are all 30% off! bloomsbury.com/us/search/?q=n…

For those who are interested, the ComFor conference this year is being held in Groningen with the theme of Graphic Medicine. It looks like a good program so far: sites.google.com/rug.nl/comfor2…

Linguists working on iconicity, remember to submit to #IcoSem, to be held in Otaru, Japan in February. ianjoo.github.io/icosem/3.html

Please take our new experiment about emoji comprehension! It should take about 15 minutes and runs on a desktop browser 🧪🧐 nimble.li/wdbyp629

I just heard a woman trying to explain dialects to her kid and used the example that Portuguese is a dialect of French and I struggled not to audibly gasp

Want to help science about emoji? 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We're still looking for participants for our online psychology experiment about emoji! It takes about 15 min and runs on a desktop browser. Please participate and repost 😄 nimble.li/wdbyp629

i know this will interest a non-trivial amount of you so go check it out!!

Asli gives a shout-out to Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky & and his new book w/ Joost Schilperoord on a "Multimodal Language Faculty". There's an emerging new multimodal view of lg as a semiotically diverse system flexibly and adaptively combing affordances of different modalities #ICL2024

Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Asli calls for an inclusive linguistics and theory of lg that sees multimodality as a fundamental design feature of lg. We need to widen our lens of "language" to include semiotic expressive possibilities of each modality in studying language in both spoken& signed lgs #ICL2024

Asad Sayeed @[email protected] Michael Pleyer Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky I don’t know. I think we can come up with criteria for things that seem central to language but these are always going to be debated and always going to be gradient (hence so called ‘paralinguistic’ phenomena), I think…

Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Asad Sayeed @[email protected] Michael Pleyer Well I think it only doesn’t work as a category if it is defined too narrowly? As you say, there are a range of distinct behaviours and those included in ‘language’ have been too limited.

Neil Cohn, also @neilcohn.bsky Asad Sayeed @[email protected] Michael Pleyer I mean, you’d have to persuade me that scratching an itch is part of British Sign Language but a lot else that isn’t traditionally considered ‘linguistic’ certainly is 😂