What a great feeling to be back at MPI and find this beauty waiting on my desk! My first chapter contribution, together with @ozyurek_a , is out in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, edited by fantastic @Limor_Raviv and @cedricboeckx https://t.co/bQF1Fe8jtl

New paper alert! Lexical database of #iconicity ratings, iconic strategies and #concreteness ratings for concepts in #BSL and #DGS. Co-authored with Annika Schiefner Nia Lazarus @pernipa #openaccess https://t.co/LeRMda3U1L

I’m gradually moving to Bluesky. Please follow me there!!

The IMPRS for Language Sciences is offering 2 PhD Fellowships to work with scientists from the MPI, @CLSRadboud, @DondersInst and @Radboud_Uni. Hiring departments are Multimodal Language and Language & Genetics. Application deadline: 6 Jan 2025. More info: https://t.co/Tmo2ad90VP

Come work with us!

Just posted new job! UC Irvine Language Science assistant professor. Please distribute.

It is that time of year again for students applying to graduate school. Here is my blog post on the subject. I originally wrote this for my African graduate students at the Africa Linguistics School. But I think students from all over the world need it. https://t.co/rQpPCxvWIT

📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and @Radboud_Uni will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: https://t.co/8yGJxVKRuL

New paper alert! 🥳 @andrea_e_martin, Antje Meyer @polmpi and I investigated whether the 🧠builds sentence structure 🔺 differently depending on statistical properties of words 🧮. 👀delta band, surprisal, syntax, TRFs & TIME ⏱️ https://t.co/m03MAzIEvK @mpi_NL @jneurolang 1/🧵

Applications are open for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP 2025), to be held August 25-29, 2025 in Potsdam, Germany:

I had an amazing time at #smlp2024!! I’m super grateful for @ShravanVasishth for making Bayesian regressions and math behind it so accessible!! Definitely one of the best summer schools I joined🔥

It is almost time for the grand finale 🥳

Excited to announce the 10th Conference of the İnternational Society of Gesture Studies to be held in Nijmegen NL 9-11 July 2025 coorg by @DondersInst @MPI_NL @CLSRadboud @GestureSociety https://t.co/VnAbkOFj93 check our website for keynotes and timeline also available in IS

Free Textbook on Applied Regression and Causal Inference https://t.co/6dBpJ8jt7E

Just published! Our new study explores how Japanese speakers use emojis, revealing a preference for SOV or OV sequences, mirroring Japanese grammar. This insight highlights the influence of native language on emoji communication. 🚀📚 #EmojiResearch

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. https://t.co/hNTA74DNOr

How do signers modulate kinematic features of iconicity for children in knowledge transmission context? And how does this compare to iconic gesture use by speakers? Come by our poster (P2-EE-364) to gain some insights and discuss these questions! #CogSci2024

@shoakamine1 analyses face-to-face interactions and finds that speakers align their speech and gesture and that both gradually stabilise. There is a positive correlation in the alignment of speech-gesture (ppl who align speech also align gesture at same rate) #cogsci2024

What an amazing start to #CogSci2024 with Morgan Barense’s keynote talk! Stop by to check out our poster with @ozyurek_a and Mounika Kanakanti today at 13, titled “Differences in the Gesture Kinematics of Blind, Blindfolded, and Sighted Speakers”. See you there!

Looking forward to #CogSci2024! We’ll present 2 posters analysing cross-speaker alignment in face-to-face dialogue, one on lexical alignment led by @DrEsamGhaleb https://t.co/Y3ox9VSr2V and one on the relation between lexical and gestural alignment led by @shoakamine1 👇