Hast du schon jemanden im Hinterkopf für sie Nominierung? 😀
I fully agree! Same experience from both perspectives! 😀
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research is doing some major shaping up; Brysbaert and Folk outline new editorial guidelines to promote robust, reproducible quantitative research with strong conceptual foundations:
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Oder: Die Rückkehr des Abendlandes!!
I've always enjoyed semester breaks for their concentrated quietness. Now this is my first week of a semester break being full Prof. In Germany, profs teach 4 seminars/semester. During the last months I felt like in a whirlwind. And now all of a sudden I have time for research again. That contrast!
Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"
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Opportunity to move to Canada. 🍁 The Lifespan Institute @brocku.ca is looking to hire a Canada Excellence Research Chair In Healthy Development Across the Lifespan. More info in the job ad (salary negotiable).
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I guess I can't sign that one as a German, but I hope that our country will consider the same!
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/bo...
Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development?
We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team.
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Come work with us!!
Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social
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A blood test for predicting Alzheimer disease 20 years prior to first symptoms with a certainty of almost 100%. And changes in lifestyle can delay the onset of symptoms.
Interested in doing an international PhD in Neuro- or Psycholinguistics? See call for applications in the IDEALAB with 8 projects, 2 with me on infant lang development phd-idealab.com/application/...
Exactly! 😀 this is what we think, too. We'll need another study with infants actually co-living with one of them. 😀 It was, however, not too weird to expect they would not be surprised by them speaking. Think of how much young kids love puppet theater etc.
Only if the Furhat showed no social behavior (face and eyes oriented downwards) they recognized its words. This was Lara's MSc project. She will start her PhD project with me @babylab.bsky.social tomorrow.
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... with @davidschlangen.bsky.social
We tested whether infants would learn new words when listening to a speaking "Furhat", a social humanoid robot. Results were unexpected: When the Furhat interacted in a social way with facial expressions, following gaze, the infants later showed no signs of recognizing words the Furhat had said. 2/3
New study results on robots interacting with infants! Very likely, we will share a living with humanoid robots in near future. If robotd move into households with young children, they will likely interact. Therefore, we were curious whether infants would learn language from robots. 1/3
Interesting study on ketamine
Makes sense, sounds good!
Is there a way for viewing the list without creating a zotero account and without joining the group? That would be useful for undergrad students (and for myself ;)). Asking because I teach a course on the acquisition of underrepresented languages.
Since we tested them on Akan by giving a cue that indicates wors boundaries in Akan, it could be a language-specific cue they are applying. It would indeed be interesting to know if infants transfer the use of this cue to their other languages.
Good question! Akan shows the vowel harmony they used as a cue for finding words in speech, and to most infants this was the only language with vowel harmony. Only 8 of the 40 infants had minimally one more vowel harmony language in their input. % exposure to harmony language had no effect.
They could do so by attending to the vowel patterns in the speech stream (Akan is a vowel harmony language requiring that vowels within a word share specific features). It did not matter whether or not Akan was among the languages they heard more often in their daily lives.
How do multilingual babies acquire their languages? In Africa, multilingualism is the norm. In our new study with 9-11 month old Ghanaian babies learning up to 5 languages simultaneously, we found that they were able to recognize words in text passages in Akan, one of their languages.
Über unsere experimentelle Feldstudie mit Babys in Metro Manila! Tagalog lernende Babys unterscheiden Sprachlaute spät. 👇
Ist mir egal, macht mir nichts, na und. 🙃
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
It's official: As of today, I am tenured professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
If you receive an invitation to review a manuscript, it will be very helpful if you hit the link to decline if you do not want to do it. Takes 5 seconds, and the editor will not wait for no reason. If you can spare another minute, please enter reviewer suggestions. BIG THANKS if you already do!
There’s more than one way to be bilingual. If you’ve ever understood your family’s language but struggled to speak it back—you’re not alone. This video challenges narrow definitions of fluency and makes space for the kind of bilingualism that often goes unrecognized.
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