@natalialevshina
Assistant professor of communication and computational methods @ Radboud University. I'm interested in why human languages are the way they are and how people from different cultures use them. Communicative efficiency, corpus-based typology, statistics, AI
Curious about Bayesian regression and how to use it in your research? Join my course at the LOT summer school in Groningen (22-26 June):
lotschool.nl/events/lot-s...
It's open to PhD students worldwide and LOT research master students.
If long dependencies are cognitively costly @rferrericancho.bsky.social, why are SOV languages so widespread?
In a new #Glottometrics paper, I argue that once you count the arguments actually used, long dependencies are far less problematic.
Takeaway: donโt trust SOV/SVO labelsโlook at real usage!
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press.
This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website:
tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
#Jobs #Blinguistik #linguistics
I made a Starter Pack for Language Evolution.
But I just added a small bunch of names that came to mind. (I don't know who's on Bluesky yet.) So please add a comment below if you're a language evolution person and I will add more names soon.
go.bsky.app/87rRCf7
Really looking forward to the Academia Europaea Conference this week. It's a great chance to connect, share ideas, and build bridges across disciplines. These are challenging times for science: funding cuts, public distrust, AI disruption... It's more important than ever to stand together.
Of course, like any tool, Bayesian methods come with their pitfalls. That's why we need clear guidelines and best practices. With thoughtful use and care, the future looks bright!
There are several factors:
- User-friendly software like #brms has lowered the barrier to entry.
- The #replicability crisis in adjacent fields revealed the limits of traditional methods
- Bayesian approaches offer conceptual clarity and flexibility for tackling diverse data and research questions.
As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. Itโs becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why?
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Congratulations to the whole team! ๐ Really impressive work.
๐จ #SLE2026 Workshop alert! ๐จ
How do Large Language Models reshape linguistics? ๐ง ๐ค
Join the debate about LLMs' impact on linguistic theory, methods and human language! Osnabrรผck 26-29 August 2026.
#LLM #linguistics
Full text of our workshop proposal:
societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-c...
We are seeking a #Postdoctoral #Researcher to join our Multimodal Language Department for the NWO funded project:
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๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ- ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐
Start: ideally February 1, 2026 but negotiable. www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Join us on Friday for a discussion on retraction ๐ฅ๐
Link to the handbook zenodo.org/records/1569...
UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra !
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social
Can't wait to visit this place next week with a merry bunch of fellow linguists! #SLE2025
A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP
Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Hi #lingsky! I'll be on sabbatical during the summer of 2026 (March 1 to July 20).
I won't travel by plane, so my radius is confined to Europe.
If you'd like to hear me speak about Oceanic languages, modal semantics, language documentation, word units (or see other publications), drop me a line!
๐ ๐ The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
3+1-year fully funded PhD position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics. Official application deadline today, but applications submitted by August 25 will receive full consideration.
tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_...
Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. ๐
Paper in @pnas.org shows 'industrial scale' academic fraud: Fake papers are not rare & are generally not detected (only ~25% get retracted). Facilitated by 'brokers' - "22 editors accept articles that were retracted significantly more frequently than one would expect by chance".
I'd join the class action if I were US-based.
My PhD student Yue Li is looking for L1 speakers of Chinese and Spanish for her online English experiment! Please see below for details!
If thereโs a #Bambara speaker (or even better a linguist) around, could you confirm that the following word-by-word translation is correct? Duna ma yelema, bi ma de yelema la || world NEG change and NEG exist change DEF (itโs from Boubacar Traorรฉโs lyrics)
J. D. Bernal in 1939 discussing how graduate students (only a thing from 1917 in the UK) are evaluated based on number and bulk, the publication pressure stifling originality, and filling the literature with useless papers.
Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!
Congratulations, Daniel! So well-deserved!
Sad to hear that Margaret Boden, pioneer in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, has passed away.
Just a few days ago, someone reactivated the post below. I warmly recommend watching the video.
Thank you Margaret for founding and shaping our field.
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
So how can we transform "null" results into positive findings? We can use #Bayes Factor or other methods to gauge the strength of evidence in support for the null or alternative hypothesis. Of course, #Bayesian inference is not magic. But it's one way to tackling the "file drawer problem". 3/3