Talks by Annika Tjuka
A list of all my talks.
2024
Language Variation in Word Meanings
One Body, Many Words: Linguistic Diversity as a Window into the Mind
Three Minute Thesis Competition. Jena, Germany.
2023
Representing semantic networks in Concepticon
Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Data Formats 2023 - Graphs and Text. Leipzig, Germany.
Was wäre, wenn du jede Sprache auf der Welt sprechen könntest?
Quantum Entanglement - Science and Music Open Air. Leipzig, Germany.
The body as a source for object names: A study of partial colexifications across languages
16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Düsseldorf, Germany.
If a car had feet, where would they be? Using the body as an analogy to name object parts
Current Topics in General Linguistics - Research Colloquium at Heinrich Heine University. Düsseldorf, Germany.
2022
Back to school - Experiences and insights from the Complex Systems Summer School
Meeting of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Linguistics. Leipzig, DE.
Using body part terms for objects across languages: Frequency, patterns and analogies
Semantic Shifts Summer School: From lexicon to grammar. Diachronic and typological perspectives. Fréjus, FR.
Comparing sensory properties of words between English, Dutch, and Italian
The Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society. Freiburg, DE.
The face of the sky – Body-part extensions from a cross-linguistic perspective
9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Erfurt, online.
2021
Comparing word properties across languages: A case study on ratings for arousal and valence
2nd Words in the World (WoW) International Conference. Canada, online.
Patterns of body-object colexifications across languages
Emerging Topics in Typology. International Workshop Series. University of Helsinki, online.
The face of the moon – Body part extensions in Vietnamese
3rd Cultural Linguistics International Conference (CLIC-2021). Budapest, online.
Meanings of body part terms: Cross-linguistic colexifications between body parts and objects
12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science – Linguistic & Cognitive Foundations of Meaning (DUCOG2021). Dubrovnik, online.
2020
General patterns and language variation: Word frequencies across English, German, and Chinese
6th Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon Workshop (CogALex) at COLING 2020. Barcelona, online.
The eye/ear of the needle – Cross-linguistic differences in body part extensions
1st Words in the World (WoW) International Conference. Canada, online.
Defining the obvious: How to measure similarity?
16th Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende. Vienna, online.
Similarity as the basis for meaning extensions
Meeting of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, online.
2019
Revealing cognitive patterns: A cross-linguistic study of body-part metaphors
13th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Pavia, IT.
A cross-linguistic study of body-part metaphors and their cognitive basis
52th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Leipzig, DE.
Tagging modality in Oceanic languages of Melanesia
With Lena Weißmann and Kilu von Prince
13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW XIII) at ACL 2019. Florence, IT.
Shirts, scarves, or socks: Remembering focus alternatives in Vietnamese
With Huong Thi Thu Nguyen and Katharina Spalek
Neurolinguistics Summer School. Moscow, RU.
Habitual aspect as a property of text spans
With Lena Weißmann and Kilu von Prince
9th Language & Technology Conference. Poznań, POL.
The heel of the bread & the tongue of the sea: Body-part metaphors in object and landscape terms
The Creative Power of Metaphor Conference. Oxford, UK.
2018
Elicitation in linguistic fieldwork – or how to capture a speaker’s view of the world
3rd Conference for Student Research. Bochum, DE.
Can typological studies show us how the brain processes language?
5th Linguistik Meet-up Berlin-Potsdam. Potsdam, DE.
Don’t judge from the outside: A deeper look into the Vietnamese tense system
63rd Linguistics Student Conference (StuTS). Kiel, DE.
Time and perspective in a supposedly tenseless language
12th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference for Linguistics. Leiden, NL.
2017
Panda vs. Bank - Wörter als Auslöser von Emotionen
2nd Conference for Student Research. Berlin, DE.