Chenxi

PhD student at VU Amsterdam. Visiting University of Birmingham with Erasmus Traineeship Grant. Interested in children's multimodal language development.

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

Our project partner in Cologne is recruiting participants for a study. Please RT!

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

Fantastic talk where Neil makes a strong case for a multimodal model of language including speech, text, gesture, emojis, writing, images. Exciting to see the language sciences are moving away from speech-centric view of language. Great discussion w/@ozyurek_a A must watch!

[Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco @vigliocco_g]

Join me on Saturday!

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

Give me a shout if you’d be interested in doing a PhD with me and join our vibrant department. Topics include sign language learning by deaf children or hearing adults, language learning in hearing kids and overall multimodal communication.

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

Ditto! Important message suggesting that our view of language shapes our theories of language evolution. Only a multimodal view accounts for sign languages, speech, gesture, pictorial, etc. Great talk! #protolang7

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

I am very much looking forward to discussing our findings with @kschonstrom . The talk will be interpreted into Libras and International Sign

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

How do hearing non-signers access the meaning of signs never seen before? Are they blank slates or can they rely on pre-existing knowledge? I am honoured to discuss these questions on Sept 15, 14:00 BST at @abralin_oficial with @kschonstrom (discussant)
https://t.co/i8W9cYT2IA

[Abralin @abralin_oficial]

What new questions of language use do we confront with the turn to digital video data and concomitant methods of movement analysis? New Abralin lecture with Alan Cienki. #gesture #language #cognition #grammar
📅 14 Jul 5pm UTC @ https://t.co/1jnfN4cHLp

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

@zhousiming2011 @DingemanseMark I don't know much about this domain, but the insights from this paper might be of interest to you -- Huh? What? A first survey in twenty-one languages.

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

@zhousiming2011 @DingemanseMark For me, 切[tsi or qi] feels like the Dutch word 'nou (slowly)'. 'Nou' means I doubt that.

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

@ortega_ger @EUErasmusPlus Thanks Gerardo! I really enjoyed our work together. Fingers crossed for the paper & let's move on😃

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

While previous studies found the perceptual advantages of mimetic words(ideophones/onomatopoeia), our study showed that MWs also provide advantages in production. Join me at 13:00 BST/14:00 CET at #BELP2021 and see how Chinese children develop language with the help of MWs.

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

What is the role of mimetic words & iconic gestures when learning to talk about causal events? @Chancy_Niu will discuss her work on how Chinese speaking children (4-7 years old) use iconicity to talk about cause & result @Eng_Lang_UoB (April 23, 13:00 BST). #BELP2021

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

What is the role of mimetic words & iconic gestures when learning to talk about causal events? @Chancy_Niu will discuss her work on how Chinese speaking children (4-7 years old) use iconicity to talk about cause & result @Eng_Lang_UoB (April 23, 13:00 BST). #BELP2021

[Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage]

The @UKCLC_2020 plenary talks by @adelegoldberg1 @CaroRowland @vigliocco_g and @DingemanseMark are now available online (with captions)
https://t.co/nENpIRF6eM #ukclc2020

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

Our collaborators in Cologne are recruiting deaf participants for our study on #iconicity in German Sign Language #DGS and British Sign Language #BSL Please spread the word!

[Bodo Winter @BodoWinter]

4-7 year old children make use of relationships across meanings in word learning. New results by Sammy Floyd and @adelegoldberg1 show that learning polysemy is easier than learning homonymy, but children on Autism spectrum do not show this polysemy advantage. #UKCLC2020 plenary

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

Excited to "see" so many brilliant minds at the fascinating @UKCLC_2020. I look forward to presenting my findings on causal event expressions by Chinese children ( the presentation is friendly to non-native speakers of Chinese😉). Join me at 3pm in Room 5 on Wednesday.

[Gerardo Ortega @ortega_ger]

@CaroRowland presents really cool findings that young infants pay close attention to causal events from a very early age (9 months). Infants can recognise causal events but it takes them time to encode them in their language #ukclc2020

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

Stay alert & Be safe!!

[Amanda Lorian @SoCalBillsMafia]

This is not good. #coronarovirus

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

@ortega_ger @ddgsKoeln @Eng_Lang_UoB @pernipa @unibirmingham Again, congratulations😍 Fantastic!👏👏

[Chenxi @Chancy_Niu]

@jmhenner @ortega_ger @Eng_Lang_UoB 🤣 Didn't notice that. Such a coincidence!