Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am looking to supervise postgraduate research on topics at the intersections of psycholinguistics, multimodality, metaphor, and especially iconicity. Some specific points of interest include:
Experimental studies of iconicity and metaphor in language production and understanding
Multimodal approaches to iconicity and metaphor in natural conversation, including the use of multimodal corpora
Experimental studies of iconicity and metaphor in the emergence and evolution of communication systems
Research activity per year
I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in September of 2017. Before coming to Birmingham, I earned my PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with Raymond Gibbs. Following this, I was a postdoc at the Gorilla Foundation, where I studied under the gorilla Koko. I then did postdocs in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, and in Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, I was a postdoc in the Language and Cognition department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
My research is driven by two big questions. What is language? and Where did it come from? My main angle into these questions is through iconicity – resemblance between the form of a signal and its meaning. My work examines iconicity across a range of phenomena, from prosody in the production of spoken sentences, to word learning by children, to the gesturing of gorillas. I am especially interested in the role of iconicity in the evolution of human communication and the ongoing historical development of languages.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Marcus Perlman (Speaker)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
Bodo Winter (Speaker), Marcus Perlman (Speaker), L Perry (Speaker) & Gary Lupyan (Organiser)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
Marcus Perlman (Speaker), Pamela Perniss (Participant) & Mark Dingemanse (Participant)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Conference, workshop or symposium
Marcus Perlman (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Marcus Perlman (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
19/01/17
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13/10/15
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21/08/15
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