Aymeric Collart
@aymericcollart.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics @National Taiwan Normal University
Personal webpage: https://aymeric-collart.github.io
Personal webpage: https://aymeric-collart.github.io
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Confs: 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing
Confs: 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing
This international event brings together researchers interested in how the under-represented languages of East and Southeast Asia—such as Formosan, Philippine, Hakka, Ryukyuan, and Taiwan Sign Language—can deepen our understanding of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition. Despite their theoretical richness, these languages remain largely absent from experimental research.
The conference opens with a hands-on workshop (November 7) exploring experimental methods in both
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October 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Confs: 2025 Conference on the Mosaic of East Asian Language Processing
If you happen to be in Taipei in early November, we're holding a conference on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of under-researched languages of Taiwan and around!
Click here to know more: sites.google.com/view/mealp-2...
Click here to know more: sites.google.com/view/mealp-2...
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you happen to be in Taipei in early November, we're holding a conference on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of under-researched languages of Taiwan and around!
Click here to know more: sites.google.com/view/mealp-2...
Click here to know more: sites.google.com/view/mealp-2...
So I guess now it’s official!
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
So I guess now it’s official!
Psycholinguistic data collection of Truku on the field? Done!
Bonus: work feels different when we’re surrounded with cultural artifacts and this triggers the participants to share personal stories
Bonus: work feels different when we’re surrounded with cultural artifacts and this triggers the participants to share personal stories
July 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Psycholinguistic data collection of Truku on the field? Done!
Bonus: work feels different when we’re surrounded with cultural artifacts and this triggers the participants to share personal stories
Bonus: work feels different when we’re surrounded with cultural artifacts and this triggers the participants to share personal stories
Back to fieldwork!
May 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Back to fieldwork!
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Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).
Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...
globalvoices.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).
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Question for the ERP folks:
If you plot your ERPs in R, I would love to know which packages you use. I like the output of erpscope, but to generate publishable graphs, I need to tweak them a lot. However, I'd also like to avoid building the graphs from scratch. Any recommendations?
If you plot your ERPs in R, I would love to know which packages you use. I like the output of erpscope, but to generate publishable graphs, I need to tweak them a lot. However, I'd also like to avoid building the graphs from scratch. Any recommendations?
April 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Question for the ERP folks:
If you plot your ERPs in R, I would love to know which packages you use. I like the output of erpscope, but to generate publishable graphs, I need to tweak them a lot. However, I'd also like to avoid building the graphs from scratch. Any recommendations?
If you plot your ERPs in R, I would love to know which packages you use. I like the output of erpscope, but to generate publishable graphs, I need to tweak them a lot. However, I'd also like to avoid building the graphs from scratch. Any recommendations?
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My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/
February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/
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Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
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@rpchaves.bsky.social and I are planning a special issue of Languages on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. Please send us an abstract if you are interested in contributing a paper to this issue on gradience in syntax and semantics. linguistlist.org/issues/35/24...
LINGUIST List 35.2489 Calls: General Linguistics/ Linguistics - "Gradience in Syntax and Semantics: Experimental, Modeling, and Formal Perspectives" (Jrnl)
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
September 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM
@rpchaves.bsky.social and I are planning a special issue of Languages on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. Please send us an abstract if you are interested in contributing a paper to this issue on gradience in syntax and semantics. linguistlist.org/issues/35/24...
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New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Reposted by Aymeric Collart
Linguists have long distinguished syntax from semantics, grammar from lexicon. Does the brain care about that distinction, too?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
December 23, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Linguists have long distinguished syntax from semantics, grammar from lexicon. Does the brain care about that distinction, too?
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social!
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
📚Thursday’s talk 📚
It’s about why grammar matters, why the expression of time matters, and how using corpus and experimental tools matters, with a focus on Taiwan Mandarin and the implications of grammar in political discourse
It’s about why grammar matters, why the expression of time matters, and how using corpus and experimental tools matters, with a focus on Taiwan Mandarin and the implications of grammar in political discourse
December 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM
📚Thursday’s talk 📚
It’s about why grammar matters, why the expression of time matters, and how using corpus and experimental tools matters, with a focus on Taiwan Mandarin and the implications of grammar in political discourse
It’s about why grammar matters, why the expression of time matters, and how using corpus and experimental tools matters, with a focus on Taiwan Mandarin and the implications of grammar in political discourse
Curious about the linguistic diversity in language processing conferences? In addition to the results from 2012 to 2023 published in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social, I'm happy to share the interactive dashboard (with updated observations) here: aymeric-collart.shinyapps.io/shinyapps_la...!
Language diversity in conferences
aymeric-collart.shinyapps.io
December 5, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Curious about the linguistic diversity in language processing conferences? In addition to the results from 2012 to 2023 published in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social, I'm happy to share the interactive dashboard (with updated observations) here: aymeric-collart.shinyapps.io/shinyapps_la...!
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It's that time again to update the lab's psycholinguistic database page. Lmk if you have any suggestions for stuff I've missed or sections to add (NLP, aphasia, discourse). Any suggestions for improving this hub would be most appreciated. www.reilly-coglab.com/data
Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
www.reilly-coglab.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:24 AM
It's that time again to update the lab's psycholinguistic database page. Lmk if you have any suggestions for stuff I've missed or sections to add (NLP, aphasia, discourse). Any suggestions for improving this hub would be most appreciated. www.reilly-coglab.com/data
A psycholinguistic lab on wheels, the dream!
It was a wild ride with the Spraaklab in Steinach! In 4 days over a 100 people participated and we recorded 80 of them from 16 to 90 y. We collected data for 5 studies and were visited by the media 5 times. The weather was perfect exactly for our 4 days! And the 3 of us had lots of fun!
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 PM
A psycholinguistic lab on wheels, the dream!
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Always a new linguistic treasure to unearth: I didn't know this UNESCO map from 2018! Of course there is much to say about how accurate it is, with dialects vs languages, extinct vs endangered, but regardless, it shows a type of linguistic diversity in Europe that is rarely highlighted. #LingSky
November 19, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Always a new linguistic treasure to unearth: I didn't know this UNESCO map from 2018! Of course there is much to say about how accurate it is, with dialects vs languages, extinct vs endangered, but regardless, it shows a type of linguistic diversity in Europe that is rarely highlighted. #LingSky
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So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: rdcu.be/cGQpY) 🧵 1/n
Psychological models and their distractors
Nature Reviews Psychology - The lack of models in psychology hinders scientific progress. To start addressing this problem, we need a clear understanding of what models are and what they are not.
rdcu.be
October 25, 2024 at 5:31 PM
So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: rdcu.be/cGQpY) 🧵 1/n
Day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge, with a simple-but-hard-to-answer question: How many fluent speakers of Formosan languages are there? I tried to make an estimate based on data we can find on the web so far. But I'm pretty sure it is too optimistic and not completely accurate!
tinyurl.com/ye6umn6e
tinyurl.com/ye6umn6e
#30DayMapChallenge, Day 2. Getting the data, Part 1: Who is fluent in Formosan languages?
Day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge. I’m entering the preparatory phase: Figuring out what data are available to plot the maps. Since my main interest is about language, let’s start with the crucial and o...
tinyurl.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge, with a simple-but-hard-to-answer question: How many fluent speakers of Formosan languages are there? I tried to make an estimate based on data we can find on the web so far. But I'm pretty sure it is too optimistic and not completely accurate!
tinyurl.com/ye6umn6e
tinyurl.com/ye6umn6e
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Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the invo...
www.degruyter.com
November 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
I've come across the #30DayMapChallenge and it reminded me of old ideas that never came to reality: Drawing maps related to Formosan languages (Taiwan indigenous languages). I'm completely new to this, so I decided to revisit this challenge and document my 30-day learning journey!
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I've come across the #30DayMapChallenge and it reminded me of old ideas that never came to reality: Drawing maps related to Formosan languages (Taiwan indigenous languages). I'm completely new to this, so I decided to revisit this challenge and document my 30-day learning journey!
Ok, my Twitter feed has been full of posts with almost nothing about science, linguistics or language processing for weeks, and it’s got worse these past days with many stuff I actually don’t want to see. Maybe now it’s time to get serious in understanding how Bluesky works and make the best of it!
November 10, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Ok, my Twitter feed has been full of posts with almost nothing about science, linguistics or language processing for weeks, and it’s got worse these past days with many stuff I actually don’t want to see. Maybe now it’s time to get serious in understanding how Bluesky works and make the best of it!
The ‘Tour of Taiwan’ of Formosan languages research continues next week in Tainan and Hsinchu.
Interested in experimental linguistics involving Formosan languages? Or in language policies for Formosan languages teaching since 1987? Contact me if you want the slides!
Interested in experimental linguistics involving Formosan languages? Or in language policies for Formosan languages teaching since 1987? Contact me if you want the slides!
December 2, 2023 at 9:56 AM
The ‘Tour of Taiwan’ of Formosan languages research continues next week in Tainan and Hsinchu.
Interested in experimental linguistics involving Formosan languages? Or in language policies for Formosan languages teaching since 1987? Contact me if you want the slides!
Interested in experimental linguistics involving Formosan languages? Or in language policies for Formosan languages teaching since 1987? Contact me if you want the slides!