Arthur Lewis Thompson

Linguistics postdoc at HKU 🇭🇰 Ideophones. Learning. Iconicity. Side project: a documentary about Hong Kong Sign Language.

[Arthur Lewis Thompson @gingerlinguist]

The opposite of an #ideophone is Democracy. Probing the limits of #OpenAIChat definitional knowledge of what an ideophone is

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Not quite #ideophones with the #OpenAIChat

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More #ideophone questions with the #OpenAIChat

[Ping Hei Yeung 楊秉羲 @pinghei]

@gingerlinguist We published a new article on Cantonese ideophones! https://t.co/4SDRnqc9x1

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Asked #OpenAIChat to show me some English #ideophones @BodoWinter @DingemanseMark @BonnieMayMcLean @Simazhi @ian_joo_korea

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

We also bumped on the theoretically hard notion of #antiiconicity, but perhaps they are just vestiges of experimental design...

Anyways, great talk and good food for thought!

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

Also check out @BonnieMayMcLean's

IcoTools python package

https://t.co/BqCkvtCyuQ

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

Got to see @BonnieMayMcLean discuss some ways in which #iconicity can be measured better

#ideophones #icosem

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

A good place to start when expanding this article would be either the Chinese Ideophone Database by @simazhi and @gingerlinguist

doi: https://t.co/opb4WKZmAE

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@lilitmarcus So true 😂

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CONFIDENT in #HongKong Sign Language is etymologically a calque of #Cantonese #信心 - morphologically breaking down to belief.heart but 信 also means “letter” ✉️ so the #HKSL literally means POSTAGE.HEART which I’d like to think is beautiful imagery despite the glaring calque 😂

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

Btw, @gingerlinguist presented on upcoming exciting #ideophone work as well a few weeks ago, so keep an eye out for that as well
#ideophones #mimetics

[Arthur Lewis Thompson @gingerlinguist]

@Simazhi presented a cool 5-tuple of ABB constructions from Mandarin which includes semi-ideophonic constructions like 白皚皚 /bai.ai.ai/ “bright white” and 黑乎乎 /hei.hu.hu/ “pitch black” #HKUIdeophones https://t.co/8aNanWsQ3X

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More #ideophone advertising with #Octopus, Hong Kong’s transport card: 嘟 dūt is the sound emitted when you tap the card reader and payment is complete. (My Eng brain says “boop”). Below, the iPhone stands in for 口 the part of 嘟 that tells us this is char is an #onomatopoeia

[Bodo Winter @BodoWinter]

Our paper started out as a response to Thompson et al.'s @LingVanguard paper, which questions the construct validity of iconicity ratings. They argue that the ratings do not actually measure iconicity.

Link to their paper: https://t.co/qQZV2MBC8l ⬇️

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@BonnieMayMcLean Whodda thunk?

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@ian_joo_korea @WoifnAndi @kayaulai Ok but then your map needs to have a different label or heading. It just says “Glides in East Asian Languages” - very misleading.

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@ian_joo_korea @WoifnAndi @kayaulai But still

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@ian_joo_korea @WoifnAndi Ok now I see what @kayaulai was saying in his replies to your tweet

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@WoifnAndi @ian_joo_korea Touché