David Peeters

Discourse genre predicts demonstrative use in text: Experimental evidence from Dutch and Mandarin In written language, demonstratives such as this and that allow writers to produce coherent texts and readers to build up a consistent mental model of…

Some new insights about demonstratives:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If your university still exists and you are teaching from our book - please know we now have 140 multiple choice exam questions ready for use, to be found on the companion website for teachers (or drop me an email) 🤓

Stockholm syndroom

Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics Speech is inherently variable, requiring listeners to apply adaptation mechanisms to deal with the variability. A proposed perceptual adaptation mechanism is recalibration, whereby listeners learn to ...

Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. Final version by Ronny Bujok,
@davidpeeters.bsky.social , Antje S. Meyer & Hans Rutger Bosker
doi.org/10.3758/s13414-025-03088-5

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Our demands, see link

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

openletter.earth/open-letter-...

📣 "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry...we need to resist being coopted and corrupted...We need to increase Critical AI Literacy in students, in scientists & in other professionals. This is the role that universities are duty bound to play in times of planetary crises"📣

Book cover by Simon Kirby

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

Jeanette Littlemore en Petra Schumacher o.a. hebben hier heel slimme dingen over geschreven. En psycholing. onderzoek laat zien dat fysieke afstand niet zo belangrijk is voor de keuze tussen dit en dat. Die aanname wordt inmiddels soms de ‘folk view’ genoemd…

Mooi! En fascinerend hoe de semantici de psycholinguistische literatuur nog altijd niet weten te vinden

Welcome to the dark side

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Today we strike! My first day off since 2017 - Thanks @eppobruins.bsky.social

1.2 billion in cuts to higher ed & science in this year’s budget. Who knows what the next one brings? Plus: attacks on 🇳🇱 academia’s international character & suggestions that gov't should have more instruments to steer course offering in higher ed.

🟥 Protest! 10 April, 12.30, Willemsplein, Tilburg!

Outside My Window Reclaiming the commons one window at a time

Very excited to announce that a collaborative art project aimed at "reclaiming the commons" is now open for contributions!

These are not good times, and so I needed an outlet for creating, sharing, and fostering hope. This is my modest attempt at that. You're all invited🌻

outsidemywindow.org

Research Fellow in Social Learning at UCL Discover Research Fellow in Social Learning jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

Join us in London! The Language and Cognition Lab (with @fourtassi.bsky.social, Yan Gu) is looking for a Research Fellow for 4-years to work on how children and adults from different cultures learn in social interaction.
Ad is here (www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN891/r...). DM if you have any question!

If your university still exists and you are teaching from our book - please know we now have 140 multiple choice exam questions ready for use, to be found on the companion website for teachers (or drop me an email) 🤓

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Poster with three people standing together. Text reads: Je bent hier welkom. Sat @ Tilburg station, Feb. 22nd, 13:00. Last Saturday, two men stood in front of the Tilburg station spreading white supremacist hate. This Saturday (Feb 22), we'll occupy the same space to share messages of love and say NO to hate. All are welcome!

🚨Demonstration alert - Tilburg

Looking for something to do on Saturday? Why not join some loving folks to say NO to hate in our communities!

When white supremacists show up to spread their fear, we show up stronger and louder.

Feb 22, 13:00 @ Tilburg station

DM for more details

Maybe garden path sentences are not really a thing in spontaneous face-to-face communication and only appear when there is script +armchair linguists?

Nee hoor, ik was dat niet!

Breaking containers and extending our journeys in 2025 Thinking about time as space is one of the most basic and pervasive metaphors out there. As we enter 2025, it is worth thinking about our movements through and in the new year.

Hey there! @kellysjones.bsky.social and I are doing a weekly newsletter on the power of metaphor. Metaphor is everywhere, doing all kinds of sneaky and not-so-sneaky things. So we think it's important (and fun!) to keep an eye on it.

Here's the first post:
open.substack.com/pub/metaphor...

We are offering two PhD Fellowships to promote collaborations between the MPI, Centre for Language Studies and Donders Institute. The hiring departments are Multimodal Language and Language & Genetics. The application deadline is 6 Jan 2025. More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
international.au.dk/about/profil... Get in touch if interested!

Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition 1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required.
ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

📢 We are now accepting abstract submissions for #ISGS2025!
🗓️ Submission deadline: January 15, 2025
🌐Review the submission guidelines and other details from the website:
www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...

Here is a start for our gesture researcher starter pack! Please let
me know if you would like to be included :) #gesture go.bsky.app/B9S5W94

Yeah this is amazing work. Negatively valenced conceptual representations moving closer to the self in depression, leading to more ‘this’ for these concepts

Blue skies over Denmark - travelling back to the Netherlands by train after the amazing PhD defense by Line Kruse on demonstratives, conceptual representation and depression:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

ISGS10 - Abstract Submission Abstract Submission

Call for submissions open for 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies at Nijmegen, the Netherlands on July 9-11 2025

Submission guidelines and more info: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...

Deadline: January 15,2025