Aymeric Collart

So I guess now it’s official!

Psycholinguistic data collection of Truku on the field? Done!

Bonus: work feels different when we’re surrounded with cultural artifacts and this triggers the participants to share personal stories

Back to fieldwork!

Taiwan's Yilan Creole: Revitalizing the only Japanese-based creole language in the world Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonizat...

Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945).

Question for the ERP folks:
If you plot your ERPs in R, I would love to know which packages you use. I like the output of erpscope, but to generate publishable graphs, I need to tweak them a lot. However, I'd also like to avoid building the graphs from scratch. Any recommendations?

It’s actually a special issue on Truku Seediq, they used several experimental techniques (acceptability judgments, eye-tracking, ERP) on the same topic and covering comprehension and production… which is quite impressive!

Syntax and processing in Seediq: an event-related potential study - Journal of East Asian Linguistics In many languages with subject-before-object as a syntactically basic word order, transitive sentences in which the subject precedes the object have been reported to have a processing advantage over t...

There was actually another ERP study published in 2019 by Yano et al. on Truku Seediq, another Austronesian language located on the east coast of Taiwan!
If you’re interested here’s the link: doi.org/10.1007/s108...
And based on my chats with them, they had the same challenges as you! :)

Image of cover of forthcoming More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World, by Maryellen MacDonald

My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/

You also have the “Dragon Fruit” which is commonly called 火龍果, but sometimes also 紅龍果 !

Two maps of US unemployment rates by county. They are identical except that the legend in the second has been converted into a histogram.

Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.

LINGUIST List 35.2489 Calls: General Linguistics/ Linguistics - "Gradience in Syntax and Semantics: Experimental, Modeling, and Formal Perspectives" (Jrnl) The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

@rpchaves.bsky.social and I are planning a special issue of Languages on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. Please send us an abstract if you are interested in contributing a paper to this issue on gradience in syntax and semantics. linguistlist.org/issues/35/24...

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social

Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology

doi.org/10.1017/jlg....

I hope people find it useful!

Linguists have long distinguished syntax from semantics, grammar from lexicon. Does the brain care about that distinction, too?

Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social!

Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...

Link here: www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/main/posts/1...

📚Thursday’s talk 📚

It’s about why grammar matters, why the expression of time matters, and how using corpus and experimental tools matters, with a focus on Taiwan Mandarin and the implications of grammar in political discourse

Thank you for the kind words!

A decade of language processing research: Which place for linguistic diversity? Author(s): Collart, Aymeric | Abstract: This paper surveys the linguistic diversity in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research by examining the languages under investigation in major internation...

And for the article associated to the data, it's here: escholarship.org/uc/item/1xc4...

Curious about the linguistic diversity in language processing conferences? In addition to the results from 2012 to 2023 published in @glossapsycholx.bsky.social, I'm happy to share the interactive dashboard (with updated observations) here: aymeric-collart.shinyapps.io/shinyapps_la...!

Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory

It's that time again to update the lab's psycholinguistic database page. Lmk if you have any suggestions for stuff I've missed or sections to add (NLP, aphasia, discourse). Any suggestions for improving this hub would be most appreciated. www.reilly-coglab.com/data

No suggestions, just a big thank you for sharing!

A psycholinguistic lab on wheels, the dream!

This map shows locations for endangered languages in Europe ranked by language vitality

Always a new linguistic treasure to unearth: I didn't know this UNESCO map from 2018! Of course there is much to say about how accurate it is, with dialects vs languages, extinct vs endangered, but regardless, it shows a type of linguistic diversity in Europe that is rarely highlighted. #LingSky

So many people confuse LLMs (or genAI, in general) for models of human cognition, language, learning, etc., so I thought it may be useful to share once more my brief comment, titled "Psychological models and their distractors". (open access link: rdcu.be/cGQpY) 🧵 1/n

Taiwan-based psycho/neurolinguist here!

Day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge, with a simple-but-hard-to-answer question: How many fluent speakers of Formosan languages are there? I tried to make an estimate based on data we can find on the web so far. But I'm pretty sure it is too optimistic and not completely accurate!

tinyurl.com/ye6umn6e

I’d be happy to be part of it as well!

Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research This article outlines ethical principles for ‘participant-centred linguistic research’ (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the invo...

Out today with @jaimackenzie.bsky.social & Sarah Atkins! We considered the ethical challenges of doing participant-centred research in linguistics, thinking beyond the formal ethics review process by drawing on our own - quite different - experiences in the field. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Let's start with Day 1, just here: aymeric-collart.github.io/posts/blog-3...

I've come across the #30DayMapChallenge and it reminded me of old ideas that never came to reality: Drawing maps related to Formosan languages (Taiwan indigenous languages). I'm completely new to this, so I decided to revisit this challenge and document my 30-day learning journey!

I'm still trying to understand how to configure the settings, but there are indeed many interesting stuff! :)