Radim Lacina
@radlacina.bsky.social
Psycholinguist at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social in Brno 🇨🇿, interested in how our minds process language. Assistant Prof, Dept of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts.
Just out in Language & Cognition! An exploration into the activation of both proper alternatives as well as antonyms in implicature derivation. We focus on how negation as an implicature-cancelling environment impacts what alternatives are activated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 27, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Just out in Language & Cognition! An exploration into the activation of both proper alternatives as well as antonyms in implicature derivation. We focus on how negation as an implicature-cancelling environment impacts what alternatives are activated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
A very nice piece of work! It's puzzled me for a long time why Russian shows attraction from "pluralless" genitives, especially since we didn't find the same effect in Czech. @utkuturk.com here provides a neat explanation!
New preprint: psyarxiv.com/dwh8v! We know surface/phonological overlap can matter for reading & memory. But does it bleed into dependency resolution? In English, “pseudo-plurals” like /s/ in *cruise* don’t induce agreement errors—but Russian ones (SG.GEN ~ NOM.PL) have been argued to. (1/3)
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
A very nice piece of work! It's puzzled me for a long time why Russian shows attraction from "pluralless" genitives, especially since we didn't find the same effect in Czech. @utkuturk.com here provides a neat explanation!
"At the symbolic (and allegorical) level, /h/ is a reference to the creator who breathes into his creation." Damn, I've been doing linguistics wrong the whole time!
WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O
www.nature.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:02 PM
"At the symbolic (and allegorical) level, /h/ is a reference to the creator who breathes into his creation." Damn, I've been doing linguistics wrong the whole time!
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Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen.
This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Hey, did you know that Greek lost the phoneme /h/ because of secularism? You see, /h/ intrinsically symbolises the Creator. And hydrogen.
This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
This journal is published by @springernature.com , and is hosted by @nature.com. How did this incoherent nonsense make it into print?
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Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]
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January 7, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd […]
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Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.
December 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Depending on how you count, this announcement has been two plus or 25 years in the making.
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Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů!
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Sepsal recenzi na popularizační knihu The Language Game od Chatera a Christiansena @mh-christiansen.bsky.social. Je zdařilý úvod, který bere náhled evoluce a komunikace a kontrastuje s chomskyánským Jazykovým instinktem od Pinkera. Doporučuji pro výuku úvodů!
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
digilib.phil.muni.cz/sites/defaul...
Psychologists use tons of questionnaires. The medium is unavoidably language, but until recently, their semantic and pragmatic side has not received much attention. Very happy to lead the linguistic side of Dr Hynek Cígler's new GAČR project on reverse-coded (negated or antonymic) items!
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Psychologists use tons of questionnaires. The medium is unavoidably language, but until recently, their semantic and pragmatic side has not received much attention. Very happy to lead the linguistic side of Dr Hynek Cígler's new GAČR project on reverse-coded (negated or antonymic) items!
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Termín odevzdání návrhů panelů už je za námi a návrhy už jsou v rukou Programového výboru na odborné posouzení 🔍. Těšíme se na jejich recenze a na to, až budeme moct oznámit, na jaká témata se na našem Bienále budete moct těšit!
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Termín odevzdání návrhů panelů už je za námi a návrhy už jsou v rukou Programového výboru na odborné posouzení 🔍. Těšíme se na jejich recenze a na to, až budeme moct oznámit, na jaká témata se na našem Bienále budete moct těšit!
A great opportunity to work on an exciting topic in picturesque Tübingen!
When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A great opportunity to work on an exciting topic in picturesque Tübingen!
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When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553
This is a really great new resource! Happy to have helped (a very tiny bit) with stimuli selection!
4 million reaction times, 1,800 participants, countless insights. Our richly annotated self-paced reading corpus of newspaper headlines is here. Check it out.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The HeCz corpus: A large, richly annotated reading corpus of newspaper headlines in Czech - Behavior Research Methods
Large behavioral datasets that provide detailed data on reading processes are valuable resources for a range of researchers working in linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. This paper present...
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a really great new resource! Happy to have helped (a very tiny bit) with stimuli selection!
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Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Opportunity for early career researchers to spend 3 years working with us in Oxford. Cool surroundings, interesting people. Eligibility: need some UK academic connection. Get in touch if interested! Details: www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
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Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas!
My latest commentary…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest commentary…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When populists win in Prague, that’s nothing peculiarly ‘east European’. It’s the new normal of the western world | Timothy Garton Ash
The likely new Czech government will add one more state opposed to the EU’s green deal and migration and asylum pact, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Prague is now the capital of a normal country – alas!
My latest commentary…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My latest commentary…
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My interview with @grammargirl.bsky.social was released yesterday, and I'm pretty chuffed that they created some snippets to share. Here's me retelling how the whole alphabet got started – in book terms, the first part of the first chapter (Chapter A) of 'Why Q Needs U'!
pod.link/grammargirl/...
pod.link/grammargirl/...
October 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My interview with @grammargirl.bsky.social was released yesterday, and I'm pretty chuffed that they created some snippets to share. Here's me retelling how the whole alphabet got started – in book terms, the first part of the first chapter (Chapter A) of 'Why Q Needs U'!
pod.link/grammargirl/...
pod.link/grammargirl/...
Brno, náměstí Svobody 12:50 několik málo dnů před volbami, u stánku nikde nikdo, všechny ostatní obsazeny. Už podruhé jsem se s Vámi chtěl jít pobavit a nebyli jste tu. Vy chcete ty volby prohrát? @piratskastrana.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Brno, náměstí Svobody 12:50 několik málo dnů před volbami, u stánku nikde nikdo, všechny ostatní obsazeny. Už podruhé jsem se s Vámi chtěl jít pobavit a nebyli jste tu. Vy chcete ty volby prohrát? @piratskastrana.bsky.social
Today at #AMLaP2025: In 🇨🇿, sentential negation causes both NPI and NCI (negative concord) illusions, contrary to the predictions of active scope and scalar theories. This is me saying my money is on feature percolation. Check out the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Today at #AMLaP2025: In 🇨🇿, sentential negation causes both NPI and NCI (negative concord) illusions, contrary to the predictions of active scope and scalar theories. This is me saying my money is on feature percolation. Check out the poster here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.
I hope it endures.
I hope it endures.
Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this.
I hope it endures.
I hope it endures.
Very excited to teach my first semester as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Language 🇨🇿 at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social! Taking over Intro to Ling is a big responsibility, but I hope to inspire at least a few to start thinking about language scientifically 🧪
September 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Very excited to teach my first semester as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Language 🇨🇿 at @masarykuniversity.bsky.social! Taking over Intro to Ling is a big responsibility, but I hope to inspire at least a few to start thinking about language scientifically 🧪
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Brněnské Bienále už i oficiálně oznámeno v tisku, protože, co je psáno, to je dáno! Přečtěte si a šiřte oznámení o konání naší konference v nejnovějším čísle Slova a slovesnosti! asjournals.lib.cas.cz/slovoasloves...
August 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Brněnské Bienále už i oficiálně oznámeno v tisku, protože, co je psáno, to je dáno! Přečtěte si a šiřte oznámení o konání naší konference v nejnovějším čísle Slova a slovesnosti! asjournals.lib.cas.cz/slovoasloves...
Great news, but it can be difficult for some researchers to support these given the science evaluation criteria of their country. In 🇨🇿, nothing counts unless it's in WoS or Scopus. I want to publish in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social for instance, but I would be loosing my Department funding if I did.
Let’s give STAR all the support we can. Let’s move away from a subscription based to a diamond open access science—free, independent science.
Journals backed by research institutions must lead the way—and so are they doing.
Journals backed by research institutions must lead the way—and so are they doing.
STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics
star-linguistics.org
star-linguistics.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Great news, but it can be difficult for some researchers to support these given the science evaluation criteria of their country. In 🇨🇿, nothing counts unless it's in WoS or Scopus. I want to publish in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social for instance, but I would be loosing my Department funding if I did.