🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Out now in #Language and #Linguistics Compass with @stefanhartmann.bsky.social & Antonio Benítez-Burraco: "The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" (this time with a working link) compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨 Out now in Language and Linguistics Compass with @stefanhartmann.bsky.social & Antonio Benítez-Burraco: "The role of play in language structure, acquisition and evolution" compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ln…

Congratulations to Alexandra Bosshard for winning the #SLE2025 award for best presentation by a post-doctoral researcher with her excellent talk on processing perspectives in animal compositionality!

#SLE2025 plenary by @dagmardivjak.bsky.social & Petar Milin: Top-down wisdom versus bottom-up noise: can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise? Dagmar contrasts two ways of knowing language, in linguistics & machine learning. LLMs successfully generate & respond to text w/o linguistic insights

😊 Happy authors, happy publisher! 🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025

Roundtable discussion at #SLE2025 "How to do #linguistics with #AI, How to do #AI with #linguistics" with @emilymbender.bsky.social , Claire Larsonneur, Benoît Le Blanc & Christian Ludwig

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

The next talk in the #SLE2025 workshop "From #Linguistics to animal communication and back" is by @tozbu.bsky.social on vocal combinations in chimpanzees and relating it to bigger questions regarding the evolution of complex combinatorial communication

Super excited for this workshop at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux on "From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back"

Out now from our lab & Uni Wrocław in Scientific Data, "The Apemen Faces Database (ApeFD):" 620 photorealistic, artificially generated facial images of 31 generalized hominin models, available in multiple ocular coloration variants" to study face perception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A classic example of the problems with google translate when it uses English as an intermediate, pivot language to translate from one language into another. Polish "nijaki" means (grammatically) "neuter" (or featureless, nondescript) not "kastrieren" (to castrate) #language #linguistics

The countdown is on! Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Premiering here: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

Apologies to all syntacticians, but please take a look at my fresh article called "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in #Danish" - about the interactional functions of "fuck" and "fucking" in various assessments! #EMCA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 The Department of Anthropology, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy in Wrocław, Poland is looking for a Postdoc in the project "The human white sclera: the role of colouration and contrast in perceiving the eyes of others." Please Share!

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now out! evolang2026.org. @cogscisociety.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

me too, predatory journal, me too...

Temporary post at Nottingham - Teaching Associate in Applied LInguistics. Come and work with us in @uonenglish.bsky.social! jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Probably my favourite slide from this year's #ICLC17. Cultural and linguistic differences in categorization mean for US-Americans this is a Chicken Sandwich, whereas in many other parts of the world (UK, Quebec, Europe) it is a Chicken Burger. Cool talk by Sarah MacDougall! #language #linguistics

Super looking forward to @alice-gaby.bsky.social's plenary at #ICLC17 on biases in language, cognition and linguists

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Really interesting article on problems with the use of "AI Sign #language Interpreters" in China. Not only technological limitations in capturing the aspects important for sign language, but also "absence of Deaf perspectives & blindspots in the developers’ approach" www.sixthtone.com/news/1017316

Really awesome study by ‪@kennysmithed.bsky.social‬‬, Josephine Bowerman & @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social out now in Cognition: Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our just published review on "Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary Research Field" :)

Check out this great thread on our just-published paper on the cross-cultural interpretation of speech pauses! We found that the cognitive states associated with long vs. short pauses before giving an answer in a conversation are strikingly similar across cultures 🏄 The paper is open access 🔓

I am honoured to have been awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientists. Also congratulations to my colleague Marta Sibierska! Out of the six Scholarships in #Linguistics in all of Poland two went to our lab, which is pretty awesome!

I am honoured to have received the 1st Degree Award of the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń for Individual Scientific Achievements in 2024 in the Field of Humanities. Our lab also got a 3rd Degree Award for Scientific Team Achievements, go us!

oh and this #linguistics #language paper is #OpenAccess!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Out now in Interaction Studies (w/ @thematzing.bsky.social, @elizabethqingzhang.bsky.social & Przemek Żywiczyński). We looked at how Polish & Chinese participants evaluate inter-turn pauses made by native & non-native speakers 1/ www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Pretty big change regarding #OpenAccess by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland's largest grant-making agency for fundamental research and basic science. NCN no longer requires publications to be #OpenAccess (though still recommends it).

How do we decide whether someone just made a small error or really said a new word we should learn? @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social and I won a Levelt Innovation Award to study this question and here's the first paper showing our multi-method approach and that it's more than making a single choice

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 @thematzing.bsky.social‬ and I have written a little review of " #Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field." Out now in "Contemporary #Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies" brill.com/display/book...

Deadline today! #neurojobs #psychjobs #lingjobs #langsky

The final talk of our #CLIC2025 theme session on #Language, #Culture and #Evolution is by Przemysław Żywycziński, (w/ M. Sibierska, M. Placiński & J. Blomberg) on the linguistic niche hypothesis in language evolution: looping environment, communication and cognition.

Our #CLIC2025 Theme Session continues. Sławomir Wacewiz is presenting our collaborative work on "Understanding the limits of experiments in language evolution: inferences from closed Vs open ended semantic paradigms (w/ Kuleshova, me, Hartmann, Blomberg, Sibierska, Zywiczynski, Placiński)

This afternoon's #CLIC2025 plenary by Chris Sinha is a perfect complement to our theme session on Language, Culture and Evolution: "Late Stages in #Language #Evolution and the Creation of the Social Imaginary"

Talk 4 in our #CLIC2025 theme session is by Christer Johansson: A culture of increased change blindness: origins of language through loss of visual acuity

Talk 3 in our #CLIC2025 Theme Session is by Sonia Cristofaro: "biological evolution vs the evolution of grammar: Perspectives from the study of language change" where she criticises models that do not not pay attention to the important differences between the two processes

The next talk in our #CLIC2025 theme session is by Tessa Verhoef (w/ Seana Coulaon & Tyler Marghetis) "How the neural processing of language reveals the nested timescales of language emergence: language as "fossil poetry"

Gerd Carling starts off our #CLIC2025 Theme Session on #Language, #Culture and #Evolution (organised by Arie Verhagen, Gabor Györi and myself) with a talk on "cognitive and cultural connotations of categorising the environment"

I am at #CLIC2025 in Madrid. The second plenary of the conference is by by Adam Głaz (Lublin): "How Cultural Linguistics lives up to its promise. Or does it?"

We are the English Linguistics team at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Located in the heart of Heidelberg, we are passionate about everything linguistics, from historical pragmatics to digital discourse analysis, from impoliteness in children's fiction to queer sociophonetics. Follow us for updates!

All Souls College, University of Oxford is advertising a senior academic position in philosophy. Closing date: 19 September 2025. #PhilJobs, #Philosophy, @jowolff.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social www.asc.ox.ac.uk/senior-resea...

🚨PhD position alert!🚨 Joint PhD position with @fedemar.bsky.social @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz, to investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... Please share and if you have questions, send me a message!

We are thrilled to host Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social at the English Department of @uniheidelberg.bsky.social this week! Lauren will give a lecture on sociophonetics and mental health tomorrow, everybody welcome!

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

Ever since I was a little PhD student I dreamed of writing a chapter for an Oxford Handbook - now @symbolicstorage.bsky.social and I had the great opportunity to contribute to the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution 🤩

🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!

As part of the Coperncius Festival '25 in Kraków Klaus Zuberbühler (Neuchatel & St. Andrews) and my colleague Przemysław Żywiczyński from CLES NCU Toruń are discussing the question "How did language evolve?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCtV...

Now live at the COPERNICUS FESTIVAL ‘25: Klaus Zuberbühler on "Atoms of Meaning: What Rules Govern Primate Communication" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXK... Stay tuned because after this Klaus Zuberbühler will debate the question "How did Language Evolve?" with CLES's own Przemysław Żywiczyński.

🚨New Publication! Out now in WIREs Cognitive Science: Elizabeth Qing Zhang, Edward Ruoyang Shi & I integrate 3 perspectives on category learning as a cognitive foundation of language evolution: language acquisition, comparative psychology & neuroscience wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....