Byl jednou jeden [lingvista]FOCUS. [Ten lingvista]TOPIC se jmenoval Vilém Mathesius.

Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social · 3d ago

#OTD 144 years ago, Vilém Mathesius (1882–1945) was born 🎂 An expert on the history of English, a co-founder of the Prague Linguistic Circle, and a pioneer structuralist, he later turned his attention to the study of rhythm and intonation as his eyesight deteriorated. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Quantifiers could be associated with different algorithms/hyperintensions from person to person, even if they all agree on truth conditions. Are they, in fact, variant in that way? We find evidence for “no! Everyone represents them the same!” Preprint here: ssrn.com/abstract=719...

The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

Individual Differences in Pragmatic Processing Where? Seminarzentrum at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social When? 10-11 September 2026 More details? www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrean/... @erc.europa.eu

Turkish 🇹🇷 native speakers needed! I'm running a pilot sentence comprehension study in Turkish with an Erasmus student from Boğaziçi, it's only a short one (10 min tops I promise!). Please share and take part! Teşekkürler! farm.pcibex.net/p/eESOzY/

Hubby, a statistician, trying to help out a friend from education w analysis of her survey data: Friend: I dropped all incomplete observations from the data Hubby: Uh, maybe send me the raw data to see how we should handle missing data Friend: Here, raw data, but I dropped everyone who seemed fishy

🚨 Dnes je poslední den pro odeslání Vašich příspěvků na Bienále! Today is the deadline for abstract submissions to the Biennial!

We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...

Ambiguity of the day

Adam Roberts@adamroberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Surely they've suffered enough?

Prodloužili jsme termín pro odesílání příspěvků do 15. května! We have extended the submission deadline to May 15!

My academic life in a nutshell

Simon Hammann@simonhammann.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Dva týdny do uzávěrky zasílání příspěvků na Bienále! Sběr se uzavírá 30. dubna 🚨 Posílejte nám svůj výzkum skrze OpenReview zde 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Two weeks until submissions close! The conference call for the Biennial is closing on April 30 🚨 Keep sending us your research through our OpenReview page here 👇 openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

How citations ruined science

The making and breaking of scientific life

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition finally assigned our paper an issue, which is as good a reason as any to plug it here again! 🇨🇿 speakers show standard attraction effects in L2 English but not in the translation-equivalent L1 Czech sentences! And only when they did the English experiment first!

Made it to Boston 🇺🇸 yesterday! Excited to present my work at #HSP2026 starting on Thursday - look forward to new NPI (and NCI) illusion findings! Also, if anyone wants to hang out pre-conference-style today, ping me a message!

I would love submit to a journal like eLife if one existed in my field but I know I could not - I work in Czechia 🇨🇿 where impact factor and journal reputation (WoS or Scopus quartiles) still matter a great deal for researchers personally, but crucially also for their departments in budgetary terms.

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Angelika Kiss and I organize a workshop on word order within this Biennial. There are so many factors competing for being expressed by word order. How does word order handle this request overload? See the workshop webpage for more information and, of course, submit! sites.google.com/view/bclword...

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026@bcl2026.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We have opened abstract submissions to the Biennial! We're looking forward to getting your abstract in our submission box 📮 on OpenReview. You can send us your abstracts until April 30. openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

What do you do if a darling construct (conversational alignment) falls flat on psychometric reliability? 1) you examine the operationalization. Could you do better? We used common aggregated measures of similarity between utterances: 1/

Riccardo Fusaroli@fusaroli.eurosky.social · 5mo ago

People re-use each other's words, syntax and semantics in conversation, arguably to facilitate common ground. In a new Proceedings of the Royal Society B we assess whether this tendency can be used an individually reliable trait (e.g. to correlate it to something else): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 1/

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

We have opened abstract submissions to the Biennial! We're looking forward to getting your abstract in our submission box 📮 on OpenReview. You can send us your abstracts until April 30. openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Spustili jsme odesílání příspěvků na Bienále! Očekáváme Vaše abstrakty v naší schránce 📮 na portálu OpenReview. Své příspěvky nám můžete zasílat až do 30. dubna! openreview.net/group?id=BCL...

Illusion alert 🚨 We looked at NPI and NCI illusions in 🇨🇿. We aimed to distinguish between them by using negation. In English, it can't cause NPI illusions, but with NCIs it might, because those are licensed in the syntax. Surprisingly, we found strong illusions with both! 1/2 osf.io/preprints/ps...

✅️ 🐋 have vowels ✅️ 🐣 have bouba/Kiki prefs ❓️ 🫎 pass Wug test ❓️ 🦙 do center embedding ❓️ 🐌 experience garden paths #linguistics

We're happy to announce our Call for Papers! You may submit to (1) one of the thematic workshops, (2) the general poster session, which is thematically unrestricted and (3) the student poster session which will also feature the Best Student Poster Award. Submissions open from March 2 to April 30.

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Confs: Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026

S radostí oznamujeme výzvu k zaslání příspěvků na naše Bienále! Příspěvky bude možno zasílat do 1) tematických panelů, 2) obecné posterové sekce a 3) studentské posterové sekce, která bude spojena s Cenou za nejlepší poster. Portál OpenReview se otevře 2. března a sběr příspěvků uzavřeme 30. dubna.

This will include a word order workshop organized by Angelika Kiss and me, featuring an invited talk by Marieke Schouwstra (@uva.nl). We’re hoping for a rich and diverse program, the call will follow soon

Bienále české lingvistiky 2026@bcl2026.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Programme Committee has selected the workshop for this year's Biennial! We're looking forward to all the great submissions you'll surely be sending to be presented there. We thank all the organisers as well as the workshop reviewers 👏 sites.google.com/mail.muni.cz...

Confs: Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026

Confs: Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2026

From 18 to 20 November 2026, the second Biennial of Czech Linguistics will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. The aim of the Biennial is to cover Czech linguistics in its full methodological and thematic breadth. We welcome contributions and participants from all linguistic disciplines and philologies, representing a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference is structured around thematic workshops and will also include a general pos

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Just picked this up from our uni library, looking forward to reading and reviewing Dan Parker's new book on agreement attraction!

My project ProSync got funded! Together with Pavel Caha at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social 🇨🇿 and Jakub Dotlačil at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🇳🇱 , I will aim to integrate nanosyntax with experiments and computational modelling to figure out the role of syncretism in online agreement establishment!

Horizon Europe@horizoneu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The results of the 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are here! With a total budget of €404.3 million, the @ec.europa.eu is supporting 1,610 projects across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. ➡️ link.europa.eu/tPVTWM