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It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise.
#AcademiaWrapped2025
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SPSS? Ben ik wakker geworden in 2006?
May 22
Beste @vrtnws,
Als u uw data over de "Foto van Vlaanderen" echt wil delen, dan zet u ze op een website in een csv, xlsx, pdf, word, sav, en nog een paar andere formaten.
Maar ik kom niet volgende dinsdag om 14h met mijn pc naar Brussel met mijn SPSS licentie.
Dank u voor de parkeerplaats, maar anno 2026 delen we digitaal.
mvg
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Great work by @seajayseajay !
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“A first look at the prosody of focus and stress in Yami (Tao) [Austronesian; Taiwan]” by Chun-Jan Young and Argyro Katsika (May ’26) isca-archive.org/speechproso…
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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics retweeted
One of my favorite things about teaching the introduction to linguistic anthropology class is that I can linger over olfactory ideophones, examples of linguistic diversity and some of the work done by UT Austin PhDs (Susan Smythe Kung and Simeon Floyd)
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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics retweeted
11 Dec 2025
"I'm a doctor in Linguistics"
"my friend is dying"
"Don't you find it fascinating that «die», a telic verb, in the progressive means that your friend is on the path to dying but isn't yet dead? Aspect is so cool"
11 Dec 2025
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After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves.
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
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17 Oct 2025
🚨: Earth now has two moons ── a new “moon” that will travel with us until 2083, says NASA
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When I review papers about a Chinese variety and there are no tone marks (and preferably also characters), the best score I give is major revision.
I was trained to not put tone marks on transliterated words and I don’t understand why. It’s a tone language and it’s 2025.
12 Oct 2025
Why is Mandarin so often not transcribed with tonal diacritics? Just cuz you're writing a syntax paper doesn't mean you should ignore tones in a tonal language...
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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics retweeted
22 Sep 2025
“List of linguistic example sentences” — actual Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics retweeted
13 Aug 2024
My book is now available for download as an open access book (free PDF).
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Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)?
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#asklinguistics #linguistics
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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics retweeted
23 Jul 2025
And the first drawing of Stonehenge was made by a man from Ghent, Lucas de Heere, in 1573.
22 Jul 2025
PHOTO OF THE DAY. The first aerial photo of Stonehenge 📷 Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe (1906).
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I wrote a paper about this meme and other ones from @AvatarNetflix @AvatarWiki . Still relevant!
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I finished it last week and there are some really great chapters in there!
📢 New publication
Interested in #iconicity? Fascinated by #ideophones?
Craving for #fieldwork in this area?
Check out this book and ideas will come...
I explain how to conduct #psycholinguistic research in #minority languages such as #Basque
@oxfordacademic @psylex_lab
ALT New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en
ALT New book on ideophones Williams, J. P (ed.). 2025. Capturing expressivity. Contents, methods, and techniques for linguistic research. OUP. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/capturing-expressivity-9780192858931?cc=es&lang=en
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Is the second version of your stimulus kit already available somewhere @iraideia ?
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Guys, I can't explain it but I think #SquidGameSeason3 game ends with Scarlett Johansson playing a Korean man
#SquidGame
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Over het fenomeen van 'kirakira' namen
kirakira キラキラ betekent 'glitteren' en is een #ideofoon.
#ideophone
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25 May 2025
Me to my Prime account:
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Some reflections about the AI hype cult.
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
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Two papers of mine got published online this week. Celebratory blogpost with some random thoughts. I'll link the two papers (both open access) below
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Please read and cite <3
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Van Hoey, Thomas. 2025. Waddling, Wandering and Waving: Literary Chinese Ideophones and the Motion Semantic Grid. Cognitive Semantics, 11, 1-29. doi.org/10.1163/23526416-bja…
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Thompson, Arthur Lewis, Van Hoey, Thomas, Chik, Aaron Wing Cheung and Do, Youngah. 2025. Iconic hand gestures from ideophones exhibit stability and emergent phonological properties: an iterated learning study. Cognitive Linguistics, 2025.
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