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Onur Özsoy
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Linguistics deputy professor @unicologne.bsky.social | alma mater @zasberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social |🌈|Berlinli Almancı | he/er/o| born CO2@361ppm▶️now 424ppm!
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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · Jan 20
1/ Thrilled to share our new paper, authored by @clartoshka.bsky.social and me! 🎉 We conducted the largest assessment of heritage language (HL) research, analyzing over 1,000 articles & 80 expert surveys. Dive in with us as we explore key shifts in the field. 👇
onurunki.bsky.social
Exciting! Call for Papers for Heritage Language Syntax 6 is now open.
The conference will be held on November 6-7, 2025 at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul.

Find more details here: hls.bogazici.edu.tr/heritage-lan...
May 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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radlacina.bsky.social
A cool workshop "Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts" organised at my new uni by our colleages at the Romance Languages Dept! A part of the recently funded large linguistics project LangInLife! Send your abstracts!
romanistika.phil.muni.cz/aktuality/ca...
May 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
One of my students asked if he can write his term paper doing a linguistic analysis about the use of multilingualism in this song and I am so excited/happy/thrilled! 🥳

youtu.be/co4PVbewN9A
Screenshot of the Spotify page for the song Mona Lisa Motion by Zah1de
May 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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academicmargin.bsky.social
#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.
manylanguagesc.bsky.social ManyLanguages @manylanguagesc.bsky.social · Apr 15
🚨 2nd Call for Proposals is NOW OPEN!
We're inviting submissions of a 2-page Expression of Interest by May 31, 2025 🗓️

👉 Get all the details here: many-languages.com/studies.html
Studies
many-languages.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce that I joined @unicologne.bsky.social this summer semester as deputy professor and as a member of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language!
Along exciting research projects, I’ll be teaching fun courses on intro linguistics, heritage languages & multilingual German acquisition 🥳
Universitätsstraße, lowered roadway at the University of Cologne. In the background, the main entrance to the university's main building Attribution: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
April 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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lingsocam.bsky.social
Want to get published? Join our virtual workshop on March 18, 5-6 PM (ET) to learn how to navigate academic publishing.

Speakers Prof. David Bowie & Dr. Aylin Coskun Kunduz will cover manuscript prep, peer review, and common challenges.

Register now: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA
March 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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lingucat.bsky.social
Für alle im #Lehramt #Deutsch 👇 Wie wäre es mit einer Sommerschule in Berlin? Das Programm sieht mega aus ✨️ #BLinguistik #FediLZ
linguistlist.bsky.social Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Mar 19
Summer Schools: DGfS-Sommerschule für Lehramtsstudierende des Faches Deutsch 2025: Focus: „Sprache im Kontext“ bezieht sich dabei zum einen auf die phonologische, graphematische, morphologische und syntaktische Struktur sowie, über die Satzgrenze hinaus, auf die Text- und Diskursstruktur. Zum…
Summer Schools: DGfS-Sommerschule für Lehramtsstudierende des Faches Deutsch 2025
Focus: „Sprache im Kontext“ bezieht sich dabei zum einen auf die phonologische, graphematische, morphologische und syntaktische Struktur sowie, über die Satzgrenze hinaus, auf die Text- und Diskursstruktur. Zum anderen stellt Kontext im Sinne der…
dlvr.it
March 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Important and painful
How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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March 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
Die neue Folge von Facts & Feelings (Deutschlandfunk Nova) ist draußen! 🎙️ Es geht um Mehrsprachigkeit in der Familie und das Wiedererlernen von Herkunftssprachen. Ich hatte die Freude, einen kleinen Beitrag dazu leisten zu können. Hört gerne rein:
www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/kult...
Verbundenheit mit den Eltern durch gemeinsame Sprache
Linhs Vater ist Vietnamese. Seine Sprache hat Linh als Kind aber nicht gelernt. Das belastet sie und deshalb lernt sie gerade Vietnamesisch.
www.deutschlandfunknova.de
March 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
@clartoshka.bsky.social, Kateryna Iefremenko, and I just wrapped up hosting our workshop at #DGfS2025!
Huge thanks to all participants for making our AG 13 'Heritage speakers learning languages' a success! 😊
And stay tuned—we’re working on a special issue featuring contributions from the workshop!
March 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
Die Wissenschaft schafft unschätzbar wertvolle Ressourcen, werbefrei, kostenlos, allgemeinnützig.

Hier stelle ich einige aus den Sprachwissenschaften vor.

1. Das DWDS: Viel mehr als ein digitales Wörterbuch. (BBAW)
DWDS − Der deutsche Wortschatz von 1600 bis heute.
DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
www.dwds.de
February 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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woerfel.bsky.social
Austausch und (kostenlose) Workshops in #Arabisch, #Deutsch, #Russisch u #Türkisch zu herkunftssprachlichem Unterricht.
👉Bitte an interessierte #Lehrkräfte des #HSU weitergeben #BlueLZ
herkunftssprachen.bsky.social HSU-Interregio @herkunftssprachen.bsky.social · Feb 14
📚 HSU Interregio Online-Veranstaltung 2025

Am 13. & 14.03. erwarten dich spannende Vorträge und praxisorientierte Workshops zu Mehrsprachigkeit, HSU & KI. Austausch für Lehrkräfte in Arabisch, Deutsch, Russisch & Türkisch! 💡

📅 Datum: 13.–14. März 2025
💻 Ort: Online
Jetzt anmelden: lmy.de/LuPIC
February 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
onurunki.bsky.social
Excited to discuss "Speech and the City" (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) with Yaron Matras at @zasberlin.bsky.social sky.social on Feb 20, 15:00 CET! 📖🌍 We'll explore multilingualism, decoloniality & the civic university.
Join us in Berlin or online:
www.leibniz-zas.de/de/das-zas/v...
Book cover of "Speech and the City" by Yaron Matras
February 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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symbolicstorage.bsky.social
JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!
a picture of Torun old town in winter
January 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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myp.bsky.social
#PhD fellowships in the @sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy:
Do you want to work for 1 year in a register related project in Berlin?
The fellowship can be used to carry out a self-contained research project on the topic of the SFB . Call: linguistlist.org/issues/36/239/
Please share!
#linguistics
LINGUIST List 36.239 Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
January 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
1/ Thrilled to share our new paper, authored by @clartoshka.bsky.social and me! 🎉 We conducted the largest assessment of heritage language (HL) research, analyzing over 1,000 articles & 80 expert surveys. Dive in with us as we explore key shifts in the field. 👇
January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
#SaveBrainCity
Protest against budget cuts in education and culture in Berlin!
December 19, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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woerfel.bsky.social
Hey @tobyschroedler.bsky.social @hannebrandt.bsky.social @uhledu.bsky.social @onurunki.bsky.social @julesbk.bsky.social @phkraemer.bsky.social @timmalbers.bsky.social @davidgerlach.bsky.social @juleboehmer.bsky.social
Ich habe einen #Mehrsprachigkeit feed angelegt. Welche(n) # wollen wir nutzen?
October 19, 2023 at 7:53 AM
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timoroettger.bsky.social
Excited for #2023BTSCON next week!

Check out their schedule and if you are interested in ManyLanguages, the Big Team Science organisation that will tackle questions about the Language Science in BTS style, join us Tuesday 1pm UTC #langsci #linguistics #metasci

bigteamscienceconference.github.io
Big Team Science Conference
Registration is open! View the Conference Program The second annual BTSCON will be held virtually via Zoom October 23-25, 2023 (10:00 - 21:00 UTC). The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to ...
bigteamscienceconference.github.io
October 17, 2023 at 7:22 AM
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lenavoelkening.bsky.social
I proudly present: In diesem Semester tragen im "Forum Linguistik" an der Universität Bonn @onurunki.bsky.social zu Heritage-Sprachen und @tokehoff.bsky.social zur Laienlinguistik über Zoom vor. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Den Zugangs-Link gibt's auf Anfrage per Mail (s. Flyer).
October 16, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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In Memory of Jon: Reflections on Crip Linguistics | Vagrant Gautam
What Jon Henner and Octavian Robinson's crip linguistics taught me. An ode to Jon, who recently passed.
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September 23, 2023 at 1:53 PM
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timoroettger.bsky.social
This is exactly the paper I need right now as we are about to enter a large collaborative writing process.

@onurunki.bsky.social @faytak.bsky.social Worth having a look maybe?
dsquintana.bsky.social Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · Sep 23
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations

doi.org/10.1111/spc3... 🔓

“We emphasize the importance of deliberate leadership and describe five general strategies that lead authors can employ to maximize opportunities and navigate challenges”
September 23, 2023 at 8:40 AM
onurunki.bsky.social
Join Elisa Mattiauda (UCL) and me at the MAIN Text & Tea meeting on 12 October (14-16 CET) (sites.google.com/view/text-tea/…) for a talk on "Narrative comprehension in adults with Down syndrome: Understanding inferencing through MAIN"

Zoom on website; abstract up soon.
See you there 👋
A screenshot for the advertisement of our talk on "Narrative comprehension in adults with Down syndrome: Understanding inferencing through MAIN" via https://sites.google.com/view/text-tea/meetings Shows a picture of the presenters and the agenda for the meeting
September 16, 2023 at 1:09 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
I love that the place where we volunteer to feed the animals regularly now has these plates that illustrate and explain various thematically fitting words from German Sign Language (DGS).

Also, meet Lotta and Lily, and our friendly hens, rooster and peacocks.🐖🐓🦚
A picture of a wooden wall with a plate in the center. the plate explains the word “chaos” in German Sign Language A picture of a plate that explains the German for “thank you” in German Sign Language A picture of a door and a cage. on the left is a plate that explains the word for “bird” in German Sign Language A picture of a fence. on the right is a plate that explains the word for “pig” in German Sign Language
August 27, 2023 at 2:13 PM
onurunki.bsky.social
Concluding this amazing summer school (sfb1287.uni-potsdam.de/summer-school-2023/) with a poster session today. I'll be presenting work from our recent paper Özsoy and Blum (2023): doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000267… Find the poster, data, and code in our OSF project: osf.io/6zcxu/
A poster by Onur Özsoy and Frederic Blum for the UMLV summer school. The poster is titled "A heritage speaker by any other name: Variation in speech fluency through multilevel Bayesian Regression". The key conclusion on the top of the poster says "Are we looking in the right place, when we try to compare groups to each other, especially different mono- and bilingual speaker groups? Probably not. We should look at variation!" More accessible PDF version and details at https://osf.io/6zcxu/
August 25, 2023 at 7:17 AM