Anita Slonimska

You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJb...

Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!

See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟

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

📢 We are thrilled to announce that the full program for #ISGS2025 is now available on our website: isgs10.nl

✨Explore the detailed schedule featuring latest advancements in multimodal language research ✨

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!

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....

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/...

🚨 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.

⏰ 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

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...

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...

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

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? ...

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

ISGS10 - Registration Registration

✉️ 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

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

Two figures on a pink background. Left: qualitative plot with "handshape frequency" on x-axis and "articulatory effort" on y-axis. There are 5 handshapes roughly on a diagonal from top-left to bottom-right: higher the handshape frequency, lower the articulatory effort. Right: Venn diagram titled "Example handshapes in ASL," showing three categories of handshapes: "Native only," "Foreign only," and "Common to all components." The diagram includes illustrations of various handshapes within these categories.

✨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... 🧵

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...)

information about abstract submission

conference website: www.isgs10.nl

ISGS10 - Abstract Submission Abstract Submission

📢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

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...

Info about the training program, which is also at risepostdoc.wcer.wisc.edu

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.

Hi there! I would love to be added! 😊

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

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

Excerpt from a letter that Charles Darwin sent to his friend Charles Lyell on October 1st 1861, confessing "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders..."

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...."

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...

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!