ALS 2018

Twitter account for the Australian Linguistic Society Annual Meeting 2018 (UniSA, December 10–12). #ALS_2018 run by @louisekyriaki - views are her own

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A big thanks to all of the #ALS_2018 presenters, attendees, organisers and volunteers for our Adelaide conference. See you all next year at @Macquarie_Uni ✈️

[Ina Bornkessel-Schl. @ibsneuro]

#ALS_2018 is over. Now it’s time for a rest! Thanks again to the wonderful @AngelaOsborn and all of our volunteers!
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It’s always exciting to see honours students presenting their work at a national conference - well done to all students who presented at #ALS_2018 over the past few days! 🎉

[Because Language @becauselangpod]

Some words are ideophones: the sound is suggestive of meaning (eg Japanese ‘taratara’: trickling).
Do these words resist sound change?
McLean compared Japanese and Ryukyuan, and found that these words had changed less, but actual onomatopoeia words changed more.
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Laurence Bruggeman discuses how variability in the speech input listeners are exposed to on a daily basis may be essential for phonetic adaptability. #ALS_2018

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Mary Laughren on the Warlpiri word for one, 'jinta', and the interesting ways it is used. Last session of talks now underway at #ALS_2018 !

[Because Language @becauselangpod]

Ellison et al study “doppels”: words that are recognisably similar betwn languages. They should make bilingualism easier, b/c they’re the same, right? Wrong! Your brain goes “Dont say the foreign thing! I want to say that, but it’s the wrong language. Oh, no it’s not.”
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Brett Baker discussing a processing account of reduplication in Wubuy. The Activation Model seeks to understand what drove speakers of Wubuy historically to treat stops and sonorants differently in the process of reduplicating stems. #ALS_2018

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Talks on Northern Lisu, Light Warlpiri and multivariate approaches to phonotactics in Stream 7 of #ALS_2018 today!

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Robert Mailhammer taking us through a fascinating exploration of whether the reduction of processing cost is a driver of language change #ALS_2018

[Ina Bornkessel-Schl. @ibsneuro]

It’s time for historical linguists and psycholinguists to work together — Rob Mailhammer from @westernsydneyu kicking off the Language Processing and Language Change workshop on day 3 of #ALS_2018

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Walter Bisang of @uni_mainz discussing manifestations of complexity in grammar and discourse at the #ALS_2018 keynote speech this morning

[Because Language @becauselangpod]

We’re pleased to announce that Talk the Talk is the recipient of this year’s Talkley Award.

This award is conferred every two years by the Australian Linguistic Society, for the individual or group who has done the most to increase public knowledge about language.

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Stephanie Durrleman of Geneva uni: "Caregivers of children with Autism Spectrum &/or Developmental Lang Disorders fear that bilingualism may exacerbate language problems - but bilinguals perform the same, or better than monolinguals!" #ALS_2018

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Cliff Goddard on creating a Minimal English version of a medical tool to ease translatibility into other languages #ALS_2018

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Weifeng Han from @Flinders describes the important distinction between Bilingualism & Bidialectalism, in the context of L2 learning

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Coming to the #ALS_2018 conference dinner tonight? Walk south on Clarendon then Elizabeth st until Waymouth st, where the Cumberland Arms Hotel (205 Waymouth) is located! 🎉🥗🍸🧀🍻

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This afternoon at #ALS_2018 - talks on Vüres, Muklom, Kaytetye, Tsum, central & northern Aus. langs, child lang, bilingualism, Alzheimer's and Autism Spectrum Disorder - a great range of many research interests! AGM @ 5:30 in HH4-08 too 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️👩‍💻👨‍💻

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Amanda Eads of @penn_state discussing the chronotypes of retrogression & the crossroads in Syrian-Lebanese ethnic identity in Michigan, USA #ALS_2018

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[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

Listening to a talk at #ALS_2018 about Australian German in the Barossa Valley and I am pleased to inform you all that the German for "gum trees" is Gummibäume

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Catherine Best discussing regional linguistic heritage in Italo-Australians at #ALS_2018