@gregwoodin.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Data Sciences at UCL 📖 💬 Multimodality, numbers, iconicity, metaphor, gesture 🤏 🔢 #rstats #python #datascience #openscience 💻 🔓 https://www.gregwoodin.co.uk/ https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7x
Really enjoyed presenting at @asifamajid.bsky.social's lab yesterday at the University of Oxford, where I shared some initial ideas for a project exploring pitch processing in speech prosody and musical melody, microtonal versus discrete-tone music, and gesture. Great to get everyone's feedback!
Does verbal (lexical, semantic) alignment btw caregiver and child support learning in 3-4 years old?
Data and analysis scripts are here: osf.io/9z5qn/overview
This one is for comics lovers and language lovers alike!
A fun and inspiring read at the forefront of the multimodal language curve. Even works as intro to linguistics course book as it teaches a lot of core linguistic concepts really well, and in a modality-general manner.
I can highly recommend!
Really enjoyed chatting to everyone yesterday! Looking forward to another day of interesting talks. Link to poster below. (P.S. the children are 3–4 years old.)
Excited to present this poster today (w/ @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @gretagandolfi.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, and Yan Gu) at the 3rd International Workshop on Naturalistic Experimentation of Child Development at Birkbeck, University of London. Check out the poster here: osf.io/876ab
My first (physically) published book chapter. It's quite a weighty tome! Almost dropped it when the courier delivered it. Read the chapter here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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...
Really glad you like it, Dave! ☺️
It’s a fantastic chapter. I’ve been giving the preprint to students.
Four years(!) after the chapter was originally written, the official publication is now live (pre-print has been out for some time though):
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
How can plurality be expressed with iconic forms across different modalities of human languaging?
#linguistics
Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues!
A thread 🧵
New work from the lab! A full multimodal picture of caregivers behaviours supporting learning in the early years answering the question: what do caregivers say and do to support their children’s word learning?
Wow, glad you like it! Appreciate it!
This is mandatory reading for all my students since it was uploaded to OSF. So glad it is finally out! \o/
Our paper (w/ @bodowinter.bsky.social and @mperlman.bsky.social) is finally out, officially 🥳. In it, we set ourselves the lofty goal of defining iconicity, focusing on its subjectivity, context-dependence, and gradability. Let us know if you agree with our definition? 🤔
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
📆 ‼️ Workshop announcement ‼️ 14th Jan 2026
⭐ Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health ⭐
Organised by myself with Prof. Jeannette Littlemore
Please see here for the full schedule and to sign up (in-person places are limited):
lnkd.in/dZ57MKwt
New Preprint Alert 🚨
Excited to share our new work: “Caregivers’ multimodal actions scaffold word learning and vocabulary growth in the early years.” with Francesco Cabiddu, @eddonnellan.bsky.social, Yan Gu and @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
World Linguistics Day is on the 26th of November because that's de Saussure's birthday. It's a great opportunity to celebrate linguistics.
If you want more linguistics in your feed, here's a linguistics starter pack from @gretchenmcc.bsky.social
bsky.app/starter-pack...
#WorldLinguisticsDay
Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!
Congrats! 🥳
My research/conference visit to Marseille and Aix is coming to a close and it's been a real adventure. Feel very grateful to be able to do things like this as part of my job. Lots of interesting conversations, great food, sightseeing, and productive collaboration. Hope to see you again soon 👋🏻
Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence.
I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people
Some of the predictor-specific trends for word learning... The speaking rate finding continues to puzzle us!
Some graphs to pique your interest... and also because converting to PDF corrupted the picture quality on the slides 😅
Really enjoyed speaking at ESLP today! You can check out the slides for my presentation here: osf.io/nex2y
Who's coming to ESLP? 🇫🇷 ☺️
Sent! ☺️
Let me know if you don't have access via your institution and I can send you a copy personally ☺️
I hope you find it interesting!