@mrkm-a.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN. Website: http://www.akira-murakami.com/ Twitter (X): @mrkm_a
Thank you, Duygu!
06.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Title page and abstract of an open-access journal article on L2 learners’ use of English dative constructions, outlining a corpus-based study of proficiency effects on double-object vs prepositional-object choices.
Bar charts and scatterplots showing verb-specific distributions of double-object and prepositional-object constructions, and how these patterns vary across CEFR proficiency levels.
Six line graphs showing how learner proficiency interacts with linguistic predictors (e.g. length, animacy, pronominality, verb bias) to influence the probability of choosing the double-object construction.
Our new open-access paper is now published in BLC! Using a learner corpus, we examined whether factors influencing L2 learners’ choice between double-object (Sam gave Mary a book) and prepositional-object constructions (Sam gave a book to Mary) vary across proficiency levels.
doi.org/10.1017/S136...
Results of the replication are in!
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
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@jamiecummins.bsky.social
That's a wrap on #ccrss25! Thanks to everyone who took part.
11.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This year's Sinclair Lecture is now available to watch on YouTube. #ccrss25 #SinclairLecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAk...
A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of @matteofuoli.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
The very final session of #ccrss25 is led by @matteofuoli.bsky.social and is titled 'Corpus Annotation and Analysis with the UAM Corpus Tool'.
11.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Yaling Hsiao teaching a session at the summer school
The final session today, titled 'What children hear, read, and write: A corpus approach to language and literacy', is led by Dr Yaling Hsiao. #ccrss25
10.07.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Title slide for the 'Topic Models in R' session
The next session, titled 'Topic Models in R,' is led by @mrkm-a.bsky.social. #ccrss25
10.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Jason Grafmiller teaching a session at the summer school
The next session, titled 'Analyzing Text with Python and spaCy,' is led by Dr Jason Grafmiller. #ccrss25
10.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Joyce Lim teaching a session at the summer school
The first session today, titled 'Analysing Learner Language', is led by external speaker Dr Joyce Lim from Aston University. #ccrss25
10.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The programme of Corpus Linguistics Summer School, with Day 4 highlighted
Day 4 of Corpus Linguistics Summer School is here! #ccrss25
10.07.2025 08:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of @meganbushnell.bsky.social teaching a session at the summer school
Following a participant presentation session, the next session is led by external speaker @meganbushnell.bsky.social from the University of Oxford and CLARIN UK, titled 'Applying FAIR Data Principles in Corpus Linguistics'. #ccrss25
09.07.2025 14:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Sofia Malamatidou teaching a session at the summer school
The second session today, led by Dr Sofia Malamatidou, is titled 'Corpus Triangulation: Its Application to the Analysis of Tourism Discourse'. #ccrss25
09.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Nick Groom teaching a session at the summer school
Today's first session, titled 'Phraseology: A Critical Reassessment', is led by Dr Nick Groom. #ccrss25
09.07.2025 09:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The programme of the summer school, with Day 3 highlighted
It's Day 3 of the Corpus Linguistics Summer School! #ccrss25
09.07.2025 08:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The final session today is my session titled 'Introduction to R'. #ccrss25
08.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Michael Oakes teaching a session at the summer school
Following participant presentations, the ongoing session, titled 'Readability and Environmental Texts', is led by Dr Michael Oakes. #ccrss25
08.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Dr Katharine Weetman teaching a session at the summer school
Up next, Dr Katharine Weetman leads a session on 'Analysing Healthcare Data Using Corpus Linguistics: Ethical Considerations'. #ccrss25
08.07.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Jack teaching a session at the summer school
The first session today is by @jwgrieve.bsky.social, titled 'The Language of Fake News: Latent Patterns of Linguistic Variation'. #ccrss25
08.07.2025 09:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The programme of the summer school, with the second day highlighted in yellow
The second day of our Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour! #ccrss25
08.07.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
EuroSLA 35 will be in Lisbon, 24-27 June 2026
clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/eurosla-2...
A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture
A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture
A photo of Professor Jack Grieve giving the Sinclair Lecture
The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and is titled 'Corpus linguistics is all you need: Large language models and the legacy of John Sinclair'. #SinclairLecture #ccrss25
07.07.2025 16:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Paul teaching a session at the summer school
The final session today, 'Introduction to Sketch Engine', is taught by Dr Paul Thompson. #ccrss25
07.07.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fenlon, J., & Hochgesang, J. A. (2022). Signed language corpora. Gallaudet University Press.
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/S/Sign... #ccrss25
A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school
A photo of Adam teaching a session at the summer school
The second session today is taught by @adamcschembri.bsky.social and is titled 'Towards a Corpus Linguistics of Sign Languages'. #ccrss25
07.07.2025 13:14 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The very first session of #ccrss25 is led by Dr Paul Thompson and is titled 'Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'.
07.07.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster of the summer school
The programme of the summer school
A photo of the venue of the summer school
Our annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School is starting in an hour and a half! After being held online since 2021, it’s back in person for the first time since 2019! #ccrss25
07.07.2025 09:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of the webpage linked in the post, showing the paper's title, abstract, and a few additional details.
Our new PLOS ONE paper, led by a PhD student co-supervised by @jwgrieve.bsky.social and me, is out! We fine-tuned LLMs per author to create Authorial Language Models, attributing texts via perplexity. The method matches or beats SOTA and offers word-level insights.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
The slides and abstract of our talk "A corpus analysis of idiolectal n-grams" at #CL2025 are now available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15806985
04.07.2025 13:39 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
EuroSLA 35 (#EuroSLA35)
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- Dates: 24–27 June 2026
- Deadline for abstract submission: 5 December 2025
- Keynote speakers: Melissa Baese-Berk, Bram Bulté, Vincent DeLuca, and Emma Marsden
- Website: eurosla35.fcsh.unl.pt