Jan Chromý

Beyond initial misanalysis: the disruptive nature of garden-path sentences processing This study investigates the resulting representations of two types of garden-path structures in English: the main verb/reduced relative ambiguity (e.g., The professor awarded the grant gained more ...

Check out our new paper on garden-path processing in English: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Did anyone get a similar email? I am quite puzzled... I cannot access my OSF account now...

Did anyone get a similar email? I am quite puzzled... I cannot access my OSF account now...

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Come to Prague in September!

Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

LINGUIST List 36.1018 Jobs: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: Post-Doc in Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...

Check out a cool study by my colleagues: doi.org/10.1017/lang...

Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement Attraction effects in the comprehension of ungrammatical sentences have long been observed for number and gender agreement across many languages. Thes…

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Beavers save Czech taxpayers £1m by flooding ex-army training site Herbivorous rodents built a dam in area officials were planning to make a barrier to shield Klabava River

Once again we made it to The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Learning or Boredom? Task Adaptation Effects in Sentence Processing Experiments Abstract. Task adaptation, characterized by a progressive increase in speed throughout experimental trials, has been extensively observed across various paradigms. Yet, the underlying mechanisms drivi...

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Anyone else using AI text to speech to create audio stimuli for psycholinguistic experiments? 🤖

Doctoral Research Fellow (271220) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellow (271220), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.

🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24

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Applications to the Czech Summer School of Linguistics are now open. See program here: ssol.ff.cuni.cz/ssol-2024/

Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu

My wallet is still at the faculty, some people do not have their keys etc. But the really horrible thing is how many people died or were injured. I knew some of them. The attracker was a history student with good degrees. He shooted in a random class. I just cannot understand why. 2/2

Mass shooting happened at our faculty in Prague today. I was in the building. I locked myself in the office and I was lucky the attacker was on the fourth floor and me on the first. We were later escorted outside by the police and we spent about three hours under police supervision. 1/2

Number Agreement Attraction in Czech Comprehension: Negligible Facilitation Effects Abstract. Number agreement attraction in comprehension has been extensively studied in various languages and it has been claimed that attraction effects are generally present across languages. In this...

More (or should I say less 🤔) number agreement attraction in 🇨🇿! Our paper with Jan Chromý and Jakub Dotlačil suggests that the phenomenon is either absent in the language or very small in size 1/n

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Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious.

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