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Elisabeth Norcliffe @enorcliffe.bsky.social · Dec 3
Thrilled that our paper "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study", with @asifamajid.bsky.social has been awarded Best Paper in Language! Very grateful to @lingsocam.bsky.social
2025 LSA Award Winners
2025 LSA Award Winners
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johnbasil.bsky.social
Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies
Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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andreskarjus.bsky.social
We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics with Jonas Nölle and @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (with extra references! the handbook had a limit on those)
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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carorowland.bsky.social
So excited to see that IASCL now has a group Zotero library of research on language acquisition in under-represented languages. 👏👏. All information here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...
Repository of Papers on Underrepresented Languages — IASCL
www.childlanguage.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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simongreenhill.bsky.social
Great new paper: Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact

#linguistics #language
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact
Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.
www.science.org
August 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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mpi-nl.bsky.social
How does speaking a free word order language influence sentence planning and production? Evidence from Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia). New paper by Evan Kidd & al. with Gabriela Garrido Rodríguez
doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70087
How Does Speaking A Free Word Order Language Influence Sentence Planning and Production? Evidence From Pitjantjatjara (Pama‐Nyungan, Australia)
Sentence production is a stage-like process of mapping a conceptual representation to the linear speech signal via grammatical rules. While the typological diversity of languages is vast and thus mus...
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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emljames.bsky.social
📣 New job alert! I'm looking for a 2-year research assistant for a project on word learning from childhood to adulthood. Come and join us in lovely York! Please RT 🙏 @yorkpsychology.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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bodowinter.bsky.social
Super proud of my first Cambridge Elements, joint work with my long-term collaborator Francesca Strik-Lievers: "Linguistic Synesthesia: A Meta-Analysis"

www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/linguistic-synesthesia/C6B019926C53001D1D698CB0C46F80C6/

Quick summary of the take home message in thread ⬇️
Linguistic Synesthesia
Cambridge Core - Cognition - Linguistic Synesthesia
www.cambridge.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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robertadal.bsky.social
#OA textbooks in #Linguistics! These #textbooks are free to download and use in class 🙂
Enjoy, share, and long live #OA!
www.robertadalessandro.it/oa-textbooks
May 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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kathyrastle.bsky.social
** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website.
cyp-lex.rastlelab.com
CYP-LEX
Discover what words children and young people encounter when they read
cyp-lex.rastlelab.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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reilly-coglab.com
Updated our lab's psycholinguistic database page to include Kathy Rastle et al's new web interface for the Children and Young Peoples Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX). Check it out! Give me a holler if you want us to link to your dataset or know of others I've missed. www.reilly-coglab.com/data
Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
www.reilly-coglab.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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kensycoop.bsky.social
How are humans able to make sense of time? Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts that render time more concrete.

My new paper explores this vast, varied toolkit—one that makes use of knots, nuts, hands, flowers, mountains, shadows, and much more.

(link 👇)
May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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lingulist.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
I just released EvoBib 1.10, my quote and reference collection that offers a bibliography for historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and beyond.

Browse online at: https://evobib.digling.org/

Get data at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15319997
EvoBib
evobib.digling.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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gretchenmcc.bsky.social
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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evangelia.bsky.social
New paper:

At a time critical for language reclamation, the Pangloss Collection offers an example of how a digital language repository of endangered & under-described languages can be interactive, allowing end-users to browse, stream, search, & download these materials. muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/artic...
Project MUSE - The Pangloss Collection: Opening up research data on endangered and underdocumented languages
muse.jhu.edu
March 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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andrewgarrett.bsky.social
My review of James McElvenny's "A history of modern linguistics" (2024) has appeared in Language 101 (2025) 195-199.

doi.org/10.1353/lan....
Last two paragraphs of review: "Throughout the history of modern linguistics, there has been a tension between technical precision and the broader dimensions of language research. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in M's words, 'comparative-historical linguistics … became increasingly narrow and technical in scope, concentrating ever more on the minute details of grammatical forms' (14). August Schlegel in 1831 mocked this 'Pedanterei', while others supported 'the scientific study of languages for their own sake' (35). More than a century later, in a 1955 letter to the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber (a former president of the Linguistic Society of America), his daughter Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that contemporary linguistics seemed 'self-contained' and 'very narrow' (her emphasis); he responded that 'precision has become an obsessive end in itself' for many linguists.4 Plus ça change: the story of linguistics has always included the challenge of finding distinctive, effective analytic tools that will lead to new ideas about a phenomenon, language, that matters to everyone and affects so many aspects of human life. All too often, we are disciplinary gatekeepers while asking outsiders to be interested in our work. I recommend A history of modern linguistics to colleagues and students in linguistics and all allied fields. This book as a whole has a big story to tell, but it will also reward selective reading. Whatever their goals, thoughtful linguists will find questions of interest and echoes of the present day in James McElvenny's lively, stimulating discussion of our past."
March 26, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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superlinguo.bsky.social
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide

If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.
March 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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simongreenhill.bsky.social
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!

Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.

#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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sebastiansauppe.bsky.social
🆕 📝 𝑵𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏

#EEG evidence that development of top-down #language processing skills is ongoing by age 6 b/c #Basque children‘s and adults’ 🧠 signatures of processing case marking differ in the β-band.

OA here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children
Sentence-initial arguments with role-specific case markers (e.g., accusatives) have been reported to be processed slower than arguments with default c…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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sebastiansauppe.bsky.social
But we can do something! If you also work on language processing or first language acquisition focussing on cross-linguistic variation, then submit an abstract to *Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025* #X_PPL2025!

Call for abstracts: easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/X...
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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fabiennemartin.bsky.social
A wonderful paper! I assigned it in an intro to Ling course and students loved it
enorcliffe.bsky.social Elisabeth Norcliffe @enorcliffe.bsky.social · Dec 3
Thrilled that our paper "Verbs of perception: A quantitative typological study", with @asifamajid.bsky.social has been awarded Best Paper in Language! Very grateful to @lingsocam.bsky.social
2025 LSA Award Winners
2025 LSA Award Winners
www.lsadc.org
March 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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syntaxpunk.bsky.social
Attention linguists -- especially those working on 'morphology' and the mental lexicon: @davidnatvig.bsky.social and I have started a new OA journal called Continua! Please keep us in mind as a publication venue! #OALinguistics

www.psu.edu/news/univers...
University Libraries launches Continua, a new open-access linguistics journal | Penn State University
Penn State University Libraries’ Open Publishing has launched Continua, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal exploring interdisciplinary linguistics research. The journal will focus on research that ...
www.psu.edu
March 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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sebastiansauppe.bsky.social
Wow! "An Agent-First Preference in a Patient-First Language During Sentence Comprehension", in which we report the first-ever language processing #EEG study on an Austronesian language, is among the 10 most-cited articles in Cognitive Science in 2023! 🧵1/

#TopCitedArticle

doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
March 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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heidiharley.bsky.social
Why Official English is a terrible idea for the United States, from @lingsocam.bsky.social. Like and share! www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
LSA
Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un
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March 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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linguistlist.bsky.social
Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025 (Switzerland): Meeting Description:

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of…
Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2025 (Switzerland)
Meeting Description: The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistics and the neuroscience of…
dlvr.it
February 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM