David Sidhu

📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language. n.pr/4rBdZgj

It’s a fantastic chapter. I’ve been giving the preprint to students.

Experimental approaches to sound symbolism AbstractThis chapter explores the phenomenon of sound symbolism: associations between language sounds and particular perceptual and/or semantic properties.

So excited to see the Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language come out!!

Here is my chapter on Experimental approaches to sound symbolism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The pronunciation of a language is always changing.

Its sounds don’t change randomly. Their articulation shifts ever so slightly.

Over the centuries, though, the result can be huge.

Click my video to hear and see how Proto-Germanic *staumaz became English ‘steam’ over the course of two millennia.

Right before clicking “Insert Footnote”

Iconicity by David M. Sidhu: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685

5/5 We discuss the development of both sound and gender associations, and what might be the key difference between nonwords and names.

4/5 However, toddlers DO pair female vs male names with round vs spiky silhouettes.

3/5 Interestingly, toddlers at this age DO pair nonwords with abstract shapes (ie the typical bouba/kiki effect; eg doi.org/10.1016/j.je...), suggesting that there is something else needed for name sound symbolism.

2/5 We found that even by 7 years of age, toddlers don't pair round (eg Molly) vs spiky (eg Katie) names with round vs. spiky silhouettes. Adults do!

1/5 New paper led by Peggy Liaw, with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @lorreggin.bsky.social on the development of name sound symbolism!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Great episode!!

Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab

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When you think you’ve finally gotten through the last round of reviews.

Reviewer 2:

More like CRUMB Size, amirite?

Wooooooo!!!!!!!!!

Nothing in teaching gives me anxiety like trying to get across the Baddeley & Hitch working memory model. Any tips to make it intuitive to undergrads? especially the episodic buffer?

Is there anything more terrifying than reading “This form must be completed using Adobe Acrobat Reader”? 😱😱😱

Here is an OpenAI generated video for a 90s Lexical Decision Task toy.

And then a Twilight Zone episode about the effect.

The new video generator from OpenAI is pretty wild. This is what I got when I asked for an HBO show about a lab studying the Bouba/Kiki Effect.

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Too many em dashes??

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Thank you! Will try all of these!

Can you recommend some good ones? I love the Minute Cryptic and Connections, but could use some more!

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A weirdo question I asked my class today. DRC and Triangle Models, which is the "maluma" and which is the "takete"?

This is an AMAZING daily word puzzle game!

www.minutecryptic.com