Anita Slonimska
@anitaslonimska.bsky.social
Postdoc at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Multimodality, Pragmatics, Language Evolution
Multimodality, Pragmatics, Language Evolution
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🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
July 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
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Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morpholo...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
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Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!
Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....
Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication
Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint is to advocate for increased study of common
ground and audience design processes in multiparty communicat...
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!
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New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching!
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching!
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
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Perfectly (but unintentionally) timed with ASL Signbank moving their site, I finished of a complete re-write of the {signglossR} #RStats package 👋🏻🤟🏻
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Perfectly (but unintentionally) timed with ASL Signbank moving their site, I finished of a complete re-write of the {signglossR} #RStats package 👋🏻🤟🏻
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
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If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
GitHub - ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial
Contribute to ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
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New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
April 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
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Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
Tracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysis
Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized? ...
tinyurl.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
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✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out!
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
ISGS10 - Registration
Registration
www.isgs10.nl
March 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out!
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
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I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers!
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
December 14, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers!
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
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✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
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A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)
OSF
doi.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)
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December 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
ISGS10 - Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission
www.isgs10.nl
January 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
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Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. How do these capacities interact? In a review paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers of the MPI and Yale University propose a new ‘mind-tracking’ model of communication. Read more: www.mpi.nl/news/trackin...
December 18, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. How do these capacities interact? In a review paper published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers of the MPI and Yale University propose a new ‘mind-tracking’ model of communication. Read more: www.mpi.nl/news/trackin...
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Postdoc positions in math cognition & math education! The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program at UW-Madison seeks applicants interested in inclusive mathematics education and in ensuring greater participation in STEM by learners from diverse groups. More info in the flyer and via the QR code.
December 17, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Postdoc positions in math cognition & math education! The RISE Postdoctoral Training Program at UW-Madison seeks applicants interested in inclusive mathematics education and in ensuring greater participation in STEM by learners from diverse groups. More info in the flyer and via the QR code.
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Amazing! Gaze-LLE, a model that estimates where people are looking! By Ryan et al (video by the authors)!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586
Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586
Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle
December 16, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Amazing! Gaze-LLE, a model that estimates where people are looking! By Ryan et al (video by the authors)!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586
Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.09586
Code: github.com/fkryan/gazelle
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You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG
December 6, 2024 at 5:19 PM
You can now find a starter pack with our researchers, alumni and collaborative partners currently on Bluesky. Please dm us to add to the pack. go.bsky.app/rthUcG
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If you are struggling with your day, please take solace in these insightful words penned by renowned scholar Charles Darwin in 1861, perhaps the most resonant quote from his entire body of work: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything...."
December 6, 2024 at 3:04 PM
If you are struggling with your day, please take solace in these insightful words penned by renowned scholar Charles Darwin in 1861, perhaps the most resonant quote from his entire body of work: "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything...."
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The best way to start 2025? Coming to Nijmegen!🇳🇱 Join us from 7 to 9 January for the Nijmegen Lectures 2025 given by @fernandaedi.bsky.social and Victor Ferreira Register here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...
November 28, 2024 at 11:12 AM
The best way to start 2025? Coming to Nijmegen!🇳🇱 Join us from 7 to 9 January for the Nijmegen Lectures 2025 given by @fernandaedi.bsky.social and Victor Ferreira Register here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...
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The Dutch government wants to cut €1billion to higher education. 20,000 people marched in the Hague today to say NO to this. Very proud to see so many UvA colleagues joining in!
November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The Dutch government wants to cut €1billion to higher education. 20,000 people marched in the Hague today to say NO to this. Very proud to see so many UvA colleagues joining in!