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Andrew Smith
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Linguist at Stirling University. Cànanaiche. Cognitive linguistics, language evolution, grammaticalisation, metaphor, Gàidhlig, languages, Scottish and UK politics, football (Burnley/ East Stirlingshire/ groundhopping), music, maps, cats, other stuff.
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Words acquire new meanings by creative processes of semantic extension. We studied this experimentally: participants conventionalise novel labels, then extend them to convey new meanings. Diagram shows diamond label in consecutive experimental rounds being used to express different meanings: red diamond; red; volcano; anger
April 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Actual, glorious BlueSky this morning on campus. Mid-November in Scotland!
View across Aithrey Loch to Dumyat at the University of Stirling. Lots of blue sky
November 20, 2024 at 12:34 PM