Onur Özsoy

Afiyet olsun (guten Appetit)!

Exciting! Call for Papers for Heritage Language Syntax 6 is now open.
The conference will be held on November 6-7, 2025 at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul.

Find more details here: hls.bogazici.edu.tr/heritage-lan...

A cool workshop "Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts" organised at my new uni by our colleages at the Romance Languages Dept! A part of the recently funded large linguistics project LangInLife! Send your abstracts!
romanistika.phil.muni.cz/aktuality/ca...

Screenshot of the Spotify page for the song Mona Lisa Motion by Zah1de

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! 🥳

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#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.

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)

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 🥳

Want to get published? Join our virtual workshop on March 18, 5-6 PM (ET) to learn how to navigate academic publishing.

Speakers Prof. David Bowie & Dr. Aylin Coskun Kunduz will cover manuscript prep, peer review, and common challenges.

Register now: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA

Für alle im #Lehramt #Deutsch 👇 Wie wäre es mit einer Sommerschule in Berlin? Das Programm sieht mega aus ✨️ #BLinguistik #FediLZ

YouTube video by DW Documentary How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE...
Important and painful

Verbundenheit mit den Eltern durch gemeinsame Sprache Linhs Vater ist Vietnamese. Seine Sprache hat Linh als Kind aber nicht gelernt. Das belastet sie und deshalb lernt sie gerade Vietnamesisch.

Die neue Folge von Facts & Feelings (Deutschlandfunk Nova) ist draußen! 🎙️ Es geht um Mehrsprachigkeit in der Familie und das Wiedererlernen von Herkunftssprachen. Ich hatte die Freude, einen kleinen Beitrag dazu leisten zu können. Hört gerne rein:
www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/kult...

Alt-text: Three workshop organizers posing in front of a screen that shows the title slide of the workshop.

@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!

DWDS − Der deutsche Wortschatz von 1600 bis heute. DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Die Wissenschaft schafft unschätzbar wertvolle Ressourcen, werbefrei, kostenlos, allgemeinnützig.

Hier stelle ich einige aus den Sprachwissenschaften vor.

1. Das DWDS: Viel mehr als ein digitales Wörterbuch. (BBAW)

Austausch und (kostenlose) Workshops in #Arabisch, #Deutsch, #Russisch u #Türkisch zu herkunftssprachlichem Unterricht.
👉Bitte an interessierte #Lehrkräfte des #HSU weitergeben #BlueLZ

Book cover of "Speech and the City" by Yaron Matras

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...

a picture of Torun old town in winter

JOB ALERT! Come work with me!
34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy"
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
Please repost & share widely!

LINGUIST List 36.239 Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

#PhD fellowships in the @sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy:
Do you want to work for 1 year in a register related project in Berlin?
The fellowship can be used to carry out a self-contained research project on the topic of the SFB . Call: linguistlist.org/issues/36/239/
Please share!
#linguistics

Sentiments Towards Heritage Languages and Their Speakers Abstract Research on heritage languages has grown in both volume and scale over the last 30 years. More recently, researchers have begun observing shifts in the ways in which heritage languages and th...

5/ This paper isn’t just about data—it’s a reflection on how far HL research has come and where it should go. 🌍 Increasing diversity in languages, contexts, & methods is essential for the field’s growth. Explore our findings here: doi.org/10.1163/1550...

4/ The expert survey also revealed an embrace of HLs as unique native language varieties with a focus on individual variation & inclusive definitions. Advanced psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics methods are driving the field forward. 🧠

3/ Our study highlights trends in subfields, languages, and methodologies. Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dominate HL research, while Turkish & syntax studies show negative sentiments—a key area for developments. 🌐

Articles and their tagged sentiments over time. Sentiment categories are encoded by colors: blue = neutral, red = negative, green = positive

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... 💡

1/ Thrilled to share our new paper, authored by @clartoshka.bsky.social and me! 🎉 We conducted the largest assessment of heritage language (HL) research, analyzing over 1,000 articles & 80 expert surveys. Dive in with us as we explore key shifts in the field. 👇

#SaveBrainCity
Protest against budget cuts in education and culture in Berlin!

Happy to talk and introduce you to the Turkish ling landscape. Send me an email if you want :)

Hey @tobyschroedler.bsky.social @hannebrandt.bsky.social @uhledu.bsky.social @onurunki.bsky.social @julesbk.bsky.social @phkraemer.bsky.social @timmalbers.bsky.social @davidgerlach.bsky.social @juleboehmer.bsky.social
Ich habe einen #Mehrsprachigkeit feed angelegt. Welche(n) # wollen wir nutzen?

Big Team Science Conference Registration is open! View the Conference Program The second annual BTSCON will be held virtually via Zoom October 23-25, 2023 (10:00 - 21:00 UTC). The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to ...

Excited for #2023BTSCON next week!

Check out their schedule and if you are interested in ManyLanguages, the Big Team Science organisation that will tackle questions about the Language Science in BTS style, join us Tuesday 1pm UTC #langsci #linguistics #metasci

bigteamscienceconference.github.io

I proudly present: In diesem Semester tragen im "Forum Linguistik" an der Universität Bonn @onurunki.bsky.social zu Heritage-Sprachen und @tokehoff.bsky.social zur Laienlinguistik über Zoom vor. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Den Zugangs-Link gibt's auf Anfrage per Mail (s. Flyer).

In Memory of Jon: Reflections on Crip Linguistics | Vagrant Gautam What Jon Henner and Octavian Robinson's crip linguistics taught me. An ode to Jon, who recently passed.

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This is exactly the paper I need right now as we are about to enter a large collaborative writing process.

@onurunki.bsky.social @faytak.bsky.social Worth having a look maybe?

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

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 👋