Envie d'aider la recherche? Nous cherchons des participants pour une expérience sur la compréhension des phrases dans des conditions de vision réduite. Conditions: Etre locutrice ou locuteur natif du français, avoir plus de 18 ans. Cliquez sur le lien... ibex.llf-paris.fr/ibexexps/Jia...

I have been informally testing chatbots on what one could call the "Joey Starr test", i.e the ability to "verlanize" French words ("cité"-"téci"). ChatGPT still fails on some hard cases. But Mistral unfortunately does much worse. Look how it confidently says that "ckan" is informal for "Franck"

Les débats sur l’écriture inclusive invoquent la nécessité d’inclure tous types de personnes (argument pour) vs difficulté de déchiffrage (argument contre). Mais en fait… les motivations sont souvent + politiques que linguistiques ⬇️ @bstorme.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

RALFe 2026 will be held at Paris 8 on 4–5 June with a workshop on allomorphy at Paris Cité on 3 June. The invited speakers are Colin Phillips, Anamaria Fălăuş, Richard Kayne, Marijke de Belder, and Markéta Ziková. Deadline for submission is 10 February. sites.google.com/view/ralfe2026

I am looking for this paper, but can't find it online and no library in the Netherlands seems to have a physical copy. Does anybody here have a copy by any chance? Tranel, Bernard (1998). Suppletion and OT: On the issue of the syntax/phonology interaction. The Proceedings of the 16th WCCFL.

Je recherche des stagiaires (F/H/X) pour travailler à la constitution d’un grand corpus vocal multilingue. #phonétique #phonetics #corpus #langues #linguistique #TAL #linguistics #languages #automaticalignment #stage L'offre est accessible dans son intégralité ici: www.linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/...

Tribune | Comment l’écriture inclusive peut être une arme contre les stéréotypes de genre par @bstorme.bsky.social et Martin Storme www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202510...

Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.

Dans cet article de "The Conversation", on explique comment certaines formes d'écriture inclusive permettent non seulement de mieux représenter les femmes, mais également de lutter contre les stéréotypes de genre - ce qui peut bénéficier aussi bien aux femmes qu'aux hommes.

Kom naar de Avond van de Talen bij @leidenhumanities.bsky.social op vrijdag 26 september tussen 18.30 en 22.00. Kom een taal leren!

Faut-il changer la devise du Panthéon "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ? Sharon Peperkamp, chercheuse au CNRS, propose de remplacer le masculin par un féminin générique et "patrie" par "nation". Ça donne "Aux grandes âmes la nation reconnaissante". www.ouest-france.fr/societe/egal...

How to make a text gender-fair? In this new paper, we show that gender neutralizing is not the ideal strategy, as it can actually reinforce stereotypes. doi.org/10.1177/0261...

For a podcast on higher education and academic freedom, I’d like to interview an American academic about her/his/their experiences. Please DM me if you can help. Sharing this message is much appreciated. Participating anonymously is definitely possible. @woinactie.bsky.social

On May 23, we’re celebrating our 130-year anniversary and the exciting news that the French department at Leiden University is here to stay! I will give a short talk about real-world applications of linguistics, from forensic linguistics to AI. www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/...

Interesting perspective on academia and Wikipedia: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We have an opening for a PhD position in French ling in Leiden. The PhD student will investigate the phonology/phonetics of one or more French-based creoles + contribute to teaching language/linguistics in the French program. Deadline: 31-3-2025. More info www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

Call for Abstracts is closing soon! The 19th T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference in #Linguistics is looking for student speakers. The deadline is in about a week (21 Feb). Have any interesting research to share? Submit an abstract! You can find more information at conference.studieverenigingtwist.nl

📢 The programme of the OCP workshop on vowel harmony is out! Invited speakers: Harry van der Hulst and Alexander Martin. Takes place in Leiden (Leiden Bio Science park) on February 4th (registration: fon.hum.uva.nl/ocp22/regist...). Workshop webpage: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

En 1945, mon arrière-grand-père mourait prisonnier de guerre en Allemagne. Ma famille ne savait pas grand chose sur les circonstances de sa mort. Ce petit livre raconte comment, entre 2019 et 2023, j'ai pu élucider le mystère. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

The Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) is taking place at the U. of Amsterdam in 2025. And Leiden is hosting a satellite workshop on vowel harmony right before the conference, on February 4th, 2025. Submit an abstract until Dec 1st! linguistlist.org/issues/35-29...

Computational Linguistics job (Assistant Prof level, permanent) at our lovely linguistics department in Queen Mary. We're starting a new MSc in Lings and AI. Deadline Jan 5th, interviews late February. linguistlist.org/issues/35-33... #linguistics please repost!

The Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) is taking place at the U. of Amsterdam in 2025. And Leiden is hosting a satellite workshop on vowel harmony right before the conference, on February 4th, 2025. Submit an abstract until Dec 1st! linguistlist.org/issues/35-29...

In a paper to appear in LI Squibs, I propose a method to quantitatively assess the role of contrast in linguistic patterns showing variation. I use the method to model a probabilistic pattern of homophony avoidance in Persian. Paper available on lingbuzz: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007...

Job alert! Please help us find our next student assistants for our project with Benjamin Storme on ‘How gender-inclusive language affect language attitudes? A cross-linguistic experimental study on French and German’ at Leiden University! www.student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vr/humani...

The way we use words says quite a lot about who we are. Look at the frequency of use of function words such as 'and', 'of' by French play writers Molière and Corneille: each author has it own particular way of using these words - a kind of lexical footprint. Data from www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...