Felicia Bisnath
@fbisnath.bsky.social
Postdoc at Høgskulen på Vestlandet 🇳🇴. Hearing. Thinking about attitudes, multimodal language contact, iconicity, typology, Creoles, and how to do good linguistics (!)
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I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data?
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data?
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?
#Linguistics
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE...
(apologies for cross-posting)
#Phon-CompLing
#Linguistics
(apologies for cross-posting)
#Phon-CompLing
#Linguistics
What is the smallest effect size of interest?
After two demographic questions, we are interested in your intuition about effect sizes. This survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes.
forms.gle
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE...
(apologies for cross-posting)
#Phon-CompLing
#Linguistics
(apologies for cross-posting)
#Phon-CompLing
#Linguistics
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
forms.gle
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...
Clearapathra is just 🤌
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Clearapathra is just 🤌
I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
Check out our new Interview series 🌟
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.
🔗
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.
🔗
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Check out our new Interview series 🌟
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.
🔗
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.
🔗
love the boundary setting of participants who decline to do an experiment after doing the practice round 😅 #linguistics
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
love the boundary setting of participants who decline to do an experiment after doing the practice round 😅 #linguistics
Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn!
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
Elementary, my dear Watson
#TidyTuesday
While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2
#TidyTuesday
While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Elementary, my dear Watson
#TidyTuesday
While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2
#TidyTuesday
While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖
Code: github.com/borstell/tid...
#r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2
Trying to listen to podcasts while running to make running less horribly boring 🙏🏽
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Trying to listen to podcasts while running to make running less horribly boring 🙏🏽
I will never not be surprised by how long all research things take
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I will never not be surprised by how long all research things take
Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn!
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hei! Jeg ser etter norsktalere som vil gjøre et eksperiment 🔎. Du vil se bilder og norske ord og si om de er like eller ikke. Eksperimentet tar 10 minutter og du må gjøre det på PC/nettbrett. Velg ett eksperiment og del med andre nordmenn!
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
🔎 1: tinyurl.com/forsk1
🔎 2: tinyurl.com/forsk2
#norsk
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")
#RStats #ggplot2
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")
#RStats #ggplot2
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm Baby
Baby’s first scalar implicature at 2;2.
Me: our neighbor’s dogs are cute.
Baby: why?
me: most dogs are cute really but I like their dogs the most.
Baby: ‘no. All dogs cute’
Me: our neighbor’s dogs are cute.
Baby: why?
me: most dogs are cute really but I like their dogs the most.
Baby: ‘no. All dogs cute’
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I'm Baby
some fonts really stress me out
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
some fonts really stress me out
The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this
The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says
For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The current government in Trinidad & Tobago is all in with the US on this
cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
cleaning my code by breaking my code 😡
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav
There is something schematic about the two-handed forms for plurals, such that different participants can choose different gestures for the same meaning, but nonetheless involving an iconic plural mapping onto the two hands.
#iconicity
#iconicity
October 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
deadmau5 anonymisation is my fav
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Non-signers favor two-handed gestures when expressing inherently plural meanings
Sign languages have been shown to favor two-handed forms to express plural meanings, and in this paper we investigate whether this pattern is similarly found in silent gestures improvised by hearing n...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Reposted by Felicia Bisnath
🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access!
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚀 My latest article, entitled "Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French: A Corpus-Based Study", has been recently published open access!
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
🌍 doi.org/10.3390/lang...
🧵 1/4
list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies
October 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
list of things that are fulfilling to me: lifting weights, looking at cats exist, bottle-feeding tiny baby puppies
I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I'm not learning important things in Norwegian class, like the vocabulary to respond to kind ladies who compliment my shoes (they're semi-chunky red patent square-toe loafers that deserve all the praise)
I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I feel like I should not apply to temporary positions that ask for way too many novel materials on principle