Greg Woodin

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

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#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 👋🏻

THE LINGUISTIC LIFE OF THE KUFR QASSEM DEAF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE EMERGENCE, VARIATION, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE by MARAH JARAISI A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Supervised by Professor Adam Schembri and Dr. Marcus Perlman Department of Linguistics and Communication School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham September 2025

Dedication This thesis is dedicated to the resilient Palestinian people. (poem) Because I am not like match sticks, I light up once… and die. but I am like the fires of the Magi: I burn… from my cradle to my grave and from my predecessors to my descendants. Long as the horizon is my breath, and I have mastered the craft of ants, gently for history is written the way we dictate By - Tawfiq Ziad -

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!

Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As mentioned in the abstract, this is a preregistered study: osf.io/9z5qn

#openscience #reproducibility #phacking #preregistration #harking #replicability

Pleased that my paper with @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social, @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu, and Stefano James has been accepted as a talk at this year's Embodied and Situated Language Processing conference at Aix-Marseille University. Abstract below 👇

Want to find out more? Download my CV: www.gregwoodin.co.uk/files/CV.pdf (4/4)

If you're a researcher working with rich or complex data and need support with statistical analysis or visualisation, I’d love to help.

Services include:
• R- and Python-based data wrangling & visualisation
• Bayesian/frequentist modelling
• Clear reporting & tailored communication (3/4)

On this project, I led the data analysis and visualisation in R, communicating with Marah to refine the coding scheme, clarify research questions, and tailor the analytical approach to the structure of her data. (2/3)

Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)

"Human voice aligns with whole-body kinetics" is now published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

Headline: Muscles that control arm movement affect the voice!

The EMG, acoustic, ground-reaction force, kinematics dataset is also fully open and FAIR reviewed:
github.com/WimPouw/kine...

Pleased to have my first solo publication, 'Iconicity in language and communication', accepted for print in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. 😌

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025 Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...

As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out!
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen
'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages'
Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw

Anyone else get Solero vibes? Crazy how colours can trigger such strong associations/feelings.

Thanks for having me! If you couldn't make it, the slides can be downloaded at osf.io/p2h95.

Today at 1pm GMT!

This Wednesday (19th March) at 1pm GMT, I'll be virtually presenting this work, co-authored with @bodowinter.bsky.social and @lordlorson.bsky.social, at the University of Edinburgh's Psycholinguistics Coffee meeting. DM me or email me at gawoodin@gmail.com for the URL! ☺️

The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Laughter is ubiquitous and crucial in social interactions. In addition to conveying meaning, it is a valuable means for monitoring interlocutor mental states and mutual cognitive alignment. Laughter h...

Our latest study, led by Chiara and Ben, investigates laughter mimicry and (acoustic) alignment in parent-child vs. adult conversations. Now published in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...