📣 New #Journal 🥳 Seeking a #linguistics journal committed to registered reports, transparency, and high-quality research? Look no further! #RRLing is now open for submissions. journals.ed.ac.uk/rrling/index

The first printed copies of my new textbook have arrived! It’s nice to see it in the flesh. Order your copy (print version or interactive e-book) now, and feel free to share with anyone who may be interested

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

My idea of Heaven (like, when you have all the time you want, good health, no obligations, no guilt, and no FOMO) - Heaven is taking courses like that. That's Heaven.

Looking for research assistant for an exciting project exploring parallels between #birdsong and human #speech! The post will be suitable for a pg student with some experience in speech or birdsong syllable annotations and data visualisation. Details here portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDe...

Sperm #whales use vowels like humans, new study finds Scientists decoding whale clicks found patterns that echo the building blocks of human speech www.popsci.com/environment/... #globalmuseum #language

🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables! A big thank you to all collaborators! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

The Curriculum and Assessment review final report was published today by the government. Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf

Paper out in Philosophical Psychology!

🎃 LLMs can do linguistics 👻

Researchers are using AI to decode whale communications. A new paper argues the findings could help make the case for the recognition of whales' legal rights—specifically a right to culture and a right to be free from torture. insideclimatenews.org/news/2910202...

"The capacity for language exists along a continuum [...]. The idea that language development does not require uniquely human properties becomes increasingly important as legal boundaries expand to include nonhuman species."

Check out this amazing plenary talk by Stephan Meylan, a research scientist in our lab: Modeling Language Acquisition as Speech Development youtu.be/VP-tUVqmH8U&...

Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...

One of the main linguistic conferences on phonology has just started. It's such a special moment, because who would have thought that a poster on whale phonology would be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology. @projectceti.bsky.social

Professor Stephen Cave was recently on WHYY podcast talking about the mortality paradox: why we struggle with our mortality, and how knowing we will die one day can make life more meaningful. whyy.org/episodes/do-...

International Circle of #Korean #Linguistics conference at Sheffield! Abstract deadline 30 Nov . ickl.net/2026-ickl/

Oooh finally found a study that I’m so eager to replicate. The abstract says: “…we present a scientifically optimized recipe based on our findings,…” G. Bartolucci, et al. Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce. Physics of Fluids 1 April 2025; 37 (4): 044122. pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...

Our class on Deep Language Learning at the LSA Summer Institute now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnm...

New #jasa paper using semi-automatic #intonation analysis to show distributional differences between language varieties Question intonation in conversational speech: Chungcheong and Gyeongsang varieties of Korean. doi.org/10.1121/10.0... #prosody #clustering #randomforest

Years in the making and finally out! #amplitude #risetime of #speechsignals is not meaningfully interpretable. www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

New open access. publication ‘The perception of intonational peaks and valleys: The effects of plateaux, declination and experimental task’ doi.org/10.1016/j.sp... #speechcommunication #prosody #intonation

Do caregivers exaggerate vowels when talking to infants? Prior findings are inconsistent () & the mechanisms unclear. We meta-analyzed 35 studies across 10 languages to disentangle systematic cross-linguistic and methodological variation. Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Belia et al. (2025) show dynamic links btwn language, motor skills & sleep patterns, esp during periods of marked devtal change in these domains ➡️ need to study vocab growth as part of a dynamic system involving mind, body and environment #DevPsySky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

'Language City' by Ross Perlin, winner of the 2025 British Academy Book Prize, is the Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. All episodes here:

University leaders Professor Dame Sally Mapstone (St Andrews) and Professor Irene Tracy (Oxford) are in conversation with The British Academy's President, Professor Julia Black at the SHAPE Conference. University education can be transformative for the ways we think and act, says Sally Mapstone.

Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.

In the journal Brain Research we introduce The virtual hand paradigm: A new method for studying prediction and language-vision interactions. Joint work with O. Jubran and T. Lachmann. Open access at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.

But today, linguistics sits at the crossroads of numerous disciplines, including biology, law and computer science. Colleagues from across academia are suddenly interested in leveraging what linguisticians have learned. news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/13/w...

There is robust evidence that infants' gestures predict later child vocabulary. Recent research by van der Klis & colleagues (2025) suggests that this link may be influenced by the verbal responses caregivers provide in response to these gestures #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

This is still awesome!!

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

Inaugural post on bsky: The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus, providing audiovisual recordings and annotations of multimodal communicative behaviours by English-speaking adults in dyadic interaction with a child or another adult is now available rdcu.be/eblMF

Call for Papers! We invite submissions for a Special Issue on Phonetics of Human-AI interaction for Phonetica. This special collection will include contributions that present empirical work in Phonetics during human-computer interaction. Read the #CfP here: www.degruyter.com/journal/key/... #ai

I often ask myself the same question 😅

A wonderful conversation about the linguistics of sperm whales on Connecticut's @npr.org. www.ctpublic.org/show/where-w... @kathrynhulick.substack.com talked, among other things, about her great new book for children, the UFO Files which in part was inspired by our lab's work. So honored!

Tomorrow I’ll be speaking about signal and expectation for prominence perception at University of York :) www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

Our tutorial on "Deep Language Learning: Modeling language from raw speech" is now available online! Tutorial: youtu.be/sF9Pi-5_Rkw Slides and colabs: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Applications for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology close on April 1, 2025. Every year people contact me saying they missed the call, so here it is again :) vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

I will be speaking about #Korean #prosody for #translation at Oxford Brookes tomorrow. It’s for Translating Across #Cultures and #Languages Conference Series - you can join on Zoom www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

🚀 Preprint alert! New work by @nicohinrichs.bsky.social, a recent member of our lab, explores multimodal dialogue annotation for neurophysiological mapping of communication—plus insights on speech acts, implicatures & turn-taking: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Neuropragmatics #CognitiveLinguistics

A new study co-authored by @simonkirby.bsky.social @inbalarnon.bsky.social & @ellengarland.bsky.social finds that whale songs follow patterns seen in human language. Does this mean whales have a language? Not really. But it is a step toward understanding their world & ours. edin.ac/4grmcxi

If you want further proof that American journalism is dead, the Hollywood Reporter showed more moral clarity in their coverage of Elon Musk’s Nazi salute than the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC. Cowards all. bit.ly/4gdjnQe

Meunier et al. (2024) measured 6mos’ gazes watching videos of 3 types of turn-taking behaviour: children varied based on # of siblings and SES, showing importance of early social experiences on language development #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...