New paper out in Cognitive Science with @kennysmithed, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman and Inbal Arnon on differential object marking and information structure: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… Here's a short summary: x.com/tal_shira/stat…

#CogSci2022 will be a hybrid conference, and we have restructured the program to ensure that the conference will be a valuable experience for both in-person and online attendees. We are very excited about these changes! Full details👇 cognitivesciencesociety.org/program/

Job opening at Edinburgh in Phonetics/Speech Perception/Sound Change (lecturer or senior lecturer level = hired with tenure for US-based peeps). Apply! We've got a fantastic community of language scientists here. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

I am recruiting a postdoc to join my group! The post is part of my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship "Logic in Semantic Universals". We are looking for someone with expertise in semantics and cross-linguistic data collection. The post is for 28 months and w/o teaching obligation

So to sum up, CogSci reviewers are amazing. And the people submitting papers must be incredible too, because the programme looks fabulous. We - @AndyPerfors Jennifer Culbertson, Vero Ramenzoni and me - are so excited for Toronto this summer!

Are you a semanticist interested in teaching alongside some really very lovely colleagues in one of the most beautiful cities in the world? If so, we have a four year teaching fellow position just for you! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… Wataru Uegaki @EdinUniLEL

🚨 Interested in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of language? Come to Amsterdam Colloquium 19-21 December! Check our great lineup of invited speakers on events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2022/ Abstract deadline September 1st. Please share! 🚨

If you're looking for a way to give back and make a difference, become a mentor! It's a great way to help others while also growing and developing yourself. Sign up today!

Another great talk Tecumseh Fitch in a thought-provoking series @UoE_CLE. Available to watch at your leisure if you missed the live show.

Working on cognitive biases & language? Submit your abstract and attend our workshop at Amsterdam Colloquium. Invited speakers: Lilia Rissman Jennifer Culbertson See events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2022/Work… for more info!

In 1988, Paul Smolensky had a seminal debate against Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn at MIT arguing over connectionism and symbolic computation. The recording of this debate is now available on youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=EdWZpu… Gary Marcus Raphaël Millière

I am co-organizing a #DGfS Workshop on creativity and routine in linguistic feedback 8-10 March 2023 at #UoC Spread the word! Very much looking forward to your contributions on language feedback!!! vicom.info/2022/07/13/dgf…

Looking forward to hybrid symposium and discussion "Innateness, universals, diversity" on Friday #CogSci2022 organised by Iris Berent with Jennifer Culbertson and Richard Samuels @osu_philosophy CogSci Society

#Symposium at #CogSci2022 Happening in 40 minutes ⏰ (14:20 EDT) Innateness, Universals, Diversity, with Iris Berent, Richard Samuels, Jennifer Culbertson, and Asifa Majid. 📍 Room 103 🧑‍💻 underline.io/events/345/ses…

POSTDOC POSITION In the context of #jcole2022 Joint Conference on Language Evolution: At the Center for Language Evolution Studies in Torun, Poland we are looking for an incoming postdoc! This is the old description, but we have extended the deadline. Retweets much appreciated! cles.umk.pl/about/call-for…

Still three weeks to apply! Please share!

Talks from #CogSci2022 are going online! Did you miss the #keynote by Prof. Yoshihisa Kashima on the psychology of cultural dynamics? No worries! You can watch it on our YouTube channel! (…and while you're there, please like and subscribe 😉) youtu.be/BXBvNCyyTt0

Preprint with Fang Wang & Jennifer Culbertson. Fang’s artificial language learning experiments show word order harmony for some phrases and not others, mirroring real world cross-linguistic distribution, driven in part by semantic similarity across categories. psyarxiv.com/b3865/

Mark your calendars! Evolang XV May 18-21, 2024. Abstracts/Workshop due Oct 6, 2023

Preprint w @Anniesotropic & Jennifer Culbertson. What happens when category-specific & system-wide biases are in conflict? We show in a noun phrase silent gesture experiment that the former come to the fore in language creation, the latter in language learning. psyarxiv.com/ynxq9/