The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—
The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As Sponges—Buckets—do—
The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound
—Emily Dickinson
❀ Jesse Holmes • 洪智惺 ❀
玄之又玄 眾妙之門
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| Latin: Jesse (เจส) |
| Sinic: 智惺 (zhì xīng, chise, .ɛပှုƨ.sပံs. [glieh thien]) |
| Aliases: Mlirn (.ɜမုံɛ. / 旻), Jelly |
| Species: unknown |
| Gender: unknown |
| Age: 158 Poltergeist years |
| Weight: ~2000 moon jellies |
| Height: ~0.6 box jelly tentacles |
EDUCATION
- 2022-Present. PhD in Linguistics, University of Tartu
- 2018-2021. MA in Theoretical Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University
- Dissertation: The Partitive through Quantification in an Artificial Language: How Learners Mark the Direct Object of a Transitive Phrase
- 2014-2017. BA in European Cultures, University of Wroclaw
- Dissertation: A Grammar of Eastern Classical Dryadic
- 2010-2014. Charleston County School of the Arts
- 2012-2012. LABO, Korean Culture & Language Program
Other Academic Experience
- 2022-Present. Junior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Tartu
- 2024-2024. Visiting Student, Centre for Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh
- 2019-2021. Research Assistant, NTHU Neurolinguistics Lab
- 2020-2021. Teacher’s Assistant, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, NTHU
- 2020-2020. Teaching Assistant, Applied Statistics in Linguistics, NTHU
Conferences and Talks
- August 2024. Differential Argument Marking through communicative pressure: an experimental study. 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2024). Helsinki, Finland.
- October 2023. The role of dependency length minimization in the emergence of differential object marking cross-linguistically. CLARIN Annual Conference 2023. Leuven, Belgium.
- August 2023. The role of dependency length minimization in the emergence of differential object marking cross-linguistically. 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2023). Athens, Greece.
- March 2023. Constructed Languages (Conlangs). Workshop taught at University of Tartu. Tartu, Estonia.
- April 2015. My Universe: Languages, Numbers, and Cultures. Sixth Language Creation Conference (LCC6). Horsham, UK.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Artificial Language Learning
- Language Change and Evolution
- Language Typology
- Differential Marking
- Information Theory
HOBBIES & GENERAL INTERESTS
- Learning Languages
- Language Creation and World Building
- Anime, Cartoons, and Vtubers
- Drawing
- Music
LANGUAGES (scales are 0-6)
Below is a table summarizing the languages I have some knowledge or proficiency in. Please note that these values are not static (except for the year).
Active – my active ability or production skills (i.e., speaking, writing)
Passive – my passive ability or comprehension skills (i.e., listening, reading)
Usage – how much exposure I currently have on a daily basis
Affinity – how much I currently like or strive to use the language
Year – when I first started learning the language
* = actively studying
| Language | Active | Passive | Usage | Affinity | Year? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | Native |
| Mandarin | 5 | 5.5 | 3 | 5 | 2012 |
| Thai* | 4.5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2023 |
| Japanese | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2011 |
| Cantonese* | 4 | 4.5 | 4 | 6 | 2023 |
| Korean | 3.5 | 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 2011 |
| Estonian | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Classical Chinese | – | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2012 |
| Indo/Malay | 4 | 4.5 | 1 | 4 | 2022 |
| Finnish* | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2020 |
| Minnan (Taiwan) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2018 |
| Russian | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2014 |
| Polish | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2014 |
| JSL | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 4 | 2024 |
| Swedish | 1.5 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2020 |
| Spanish | 1 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2010 |
| French | 1 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2017 |
| Burmese | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mongolian | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2012 |
| Turkish | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2014 |
| Modern Greek | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2015 |
| Modern Hebrew | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2017 |
| Scottish Gaelic | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2020 |
| Persian | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2021 |
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