Looking forward to #CogSci2024! We’ll present 2 posters analysing cross-speaker alignment in face-to-face dialogue, one on lexical alignment led by @DrEsamGhaleb escholarship.org/uc/item/43h970… and one on the relation between lexical and gestural alignment led by Sho Akamine 👇

What an amazing start to #CogSci2024 with Morgan Barense’s keynote talk! Stop by to check out our poster with Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a and Mounika Kanakanti today at 13, titled “Differences in the Gesture Kinematics of Blind, Blindfolded, and Sighted Speakers”. See you there!

Sho Akamine analyses face-to-face interactions and finds that speakers align their speech and gesture and that both gradually stabilise. There is a positive correlation in the alignment of speech-gesture (ppl who align speech also align gesture at same rate) #cogsci2024

How do signers modulate kinematic features of iconicity for children in knowledge transmission context? And how does this compare to iconic gesture use by speakers? Come by our poster (P2-EE-364) to gain some insights and discuss these questions! #CogSci2024

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Just published! Our new study explores how Japanese speakers use emojis, revealing a preference for SOV or OV sequences, mirroring Japanese grammar. This insight highlights the influence of native language on emoji communication. 🚀📚 #EmojiResearch …itiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Free Textbook on Applied Regression and Causal Inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/30/fre…

Excited to announce the 10th Conference of the İnternational Society of Gesture Studies to be held in Nijmegen NL 9-11 July 2025 coorg by Donders Institute MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics CLS ISGS isgs10.nl check our website for keynotes and timeline also available in IS

It is almost time for the grand finale 🥳

I had an amazing time at #smlp2024!! I’m super grateful for Shravan Vasishth for making Bayesian regressions and math behind it so accessible!! Definitely one of the best summer schools I joined🔥

Applications are open for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP 2025), to be held August 25-29, 2025 in Potsdam, Germany: vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

New paper alert! 🥳 @andrea_e_martin, Antje Meyer @polmpi and I investigated whether the 🧠builds sentence structure 🔺 differently depending on statistical properties of words 🧮. 👀delta band, surprisal, syntax, TRFs & TIME ⏱️ doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_… @mpi_NL Neurobiology of Language 1/🧵

📅Save the Date!📅 From 7 to 9 January 2025, the MPI and Radboud University will be hosting the Nijmegen Lectures. The lectures will be given by @fernandaedi and Victor Ferreira: mpi.nl/events/nijmege…

It is that time of year again for students applying to graduate school. Here is my blog post on the subject. I originally wrote this for my African graduate students at the Africa Linguistics School. But I think students from all over the world need it. ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/12/writin…

Just posted new job! UC Irvine Language Science assistant professor. Please distribute. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09346

Come work with us! ru.nl/en/working-at/…

The IMPRS for Language Sciences is offering 2 PhD Fellowships to work with scientists from the MPI, CLS, Donders Institute and Radboud University. Hiring departments are Multimodal Language and Language & Genetics. Application deadline: 6 Jan 2025. More info: mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fell…

I’m gradually moving to Bluesky. Please follow me there!! shoakamine.bsky.social

New paper alert! Lexical database of #iconicity ratings, iconic strategies and #concreteness ratings for concepts in #BSL and #DGS. Co-authored with Annika Schiefner Nia Lazarus Pamela Perniss #openaccess rdcu.be/eg7Ko

What a great feeling to be back at MPI and find this beauty waiting on my desk! My first chapter contribution, together with Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a , is out in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution, edited by fantastic Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒 and cedric boeckx academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…