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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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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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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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@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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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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2/ HL research has grown exponentially in 30 years. Using sentiment analysis & expert insights, we trace the evolution of how HLs & their speakers are portrayed—from early deficit framings to recognizing HLs as valuable linguistic systems. Read here: doi.org/10.1163/1550... 💡
Articles and their tagged sentiments over time. Sentiment categories are encoded by colors: blue = neutral, red = negative, green = positive
January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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#SaveBrainCity
Protest against budget cuts in education and culture in Berlin!
December 19, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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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
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The animals 😊
A picture of a fence with photographs of birds subtitled by their names A picture of a birds’ cage with on hen in the front an two peacocks in the back A picture of two hens and a rooster A picture of two pigs named Lotta and Lily
August 27, 2023 at 2:15 PM
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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
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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