Gerardo Ortega
@ortega_ger
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Senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Sign languages - gesture - acquisition - processing - iconicity
Birmingham, England
Joined March 2013
Are you interested in #iconicity and how it shapes the lexicon? Join us in our workshop FROM ICON TO ABSTRACTION organised by @pernipa and yours truly 📍The Exchange Birmingham UK ⏰July 20-21 2023
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RT @federico_frau: Don't miss the first #IUSSLinguisticsSeminar of the 2025 series: EEG source connectivity in neuropsychiatric disorders:…
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RT @GestureHK: Join us on Zoom on Friday 21st February at 17:30 HK time to hear from Dr. Pilar Prieto and Dr. Florence Baills . "Embodied…
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RT @CogistBoard: 📢 #PhD Opportunity: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery & Perception @DondersInst 🇳🇱 🔍 Focus: Investigating how mental imagery a…
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RT @JWGrieve: Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: Intercultural Communic…
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RT @TimoRoettger: 👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @UniOslo using iterative learning experiments to unders…
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Go @GoksunTilbe 👏👏👏👏 Cannot wait for this event!
Tilbe Goksun @GoksunTilbe is Professor of Psychology at Koç University and the director of Koç University Language and Cognition Lab. Her talk will be on Multifunctionality of gesture use and processing across the lifespan: An individual differences approach
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RT @Multimodallang: We are so excited about our keynotes @isgs2025 !! Abstract submissions open!!
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RT @Multimodallang: 📢📢 job alert !!Our Department @MPI_NL has two vacancies one as a PhD student and one as Machine Learning student assis…
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RT @MedalLinguist: Join us for the final MEDAL workshop of this semester! On Nov 20th, @dagmardivjak (@artsatbham), Editor-in-Chief of Co…
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RT @cles_ncu: A review of Perspectives on Pantomime (Żywiczyński, Blomberg, @BorutaFeba ) by @ortega_ger is #OA out here:
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@cles_ncu @BorutaFeba It was an absolute delight reading this book! It's a must-have for anyone interested in gesture, and language evolution 😃
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My review of the book Perspectives on Pantomime is now available online in Gesture. Comments welcome! #gesture #pantomime #language #evolution @GestureSociety
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Submissions for ISGS 10 is open! @GestureSociety
10th Conf of International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) is OPEN for SUBMISSIONS till January 15, 2025! @GestureSociety Amazing keynotes @GoksunTilbe @lornaquandt Erica Cartmill @mesch_joo @turnermarkb Can't wait to welcome you in Nijmegen(🙏RT)
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RT @bkdalli: New paper 👇👇👇 our opinion paper - together with @DilayKaradoller and @ozyurek_a - is just out! Here we argued why language res…
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@CLSRadboud @PaulaFikkert @RU_Letteren @Radboud_Uni @UniofOxford @uiagder Huge congratulations, @PaulaFikkert 🥳🥳🥳
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Snapshots of the mini symposium prior to @Chancy_Niu PhD defense. Annemiek Hammer (VU Amsterdam) multimodal speech processing in kids, @iraideia on causal events in Basque & Spanish (@unizar), and yours truly on iconicity and sign learning. Photos by Alan Cienki.
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RT @psylex_lab: Además, formó parte del tribunal de defensa de tesis de la ya Dra. Niu (@Chancy_Niu): "The multimodal expression of causal…
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