Aymeric Collart
@aymericcollart.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics @National Taiwan Normal University Personal webpage: https://aymeric-collart.github.io
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If you happen to be in Taipei in early November, we're holding a conference on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of under-researched languages of Taiwan and around!

Click here to know more: sites.google.com/view/mealp-2...
aymericcollart.bsky.social
So I guess now it’s official!
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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
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globalvoices.org
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).
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...
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simonesprenger.bsky.social
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?
aymericcollart.bsky.social
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!
aymericcollart.bsky.social
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! :)
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...
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maryellenmacdonald.bsky.social
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/
Image of cover of forthcoming More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World, by Maryellen MacDonald
aymericcollart.bsky.social
You also have the “Dragon Fruit” which is commonly called 火龍果, but sometimes also 紅龍果 !
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obumbratta.com
Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
Two maps of US unemployment rates by county. They are identical except that the legend in the second has been converted into a histogram.
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ejfranci2.bsky.social
@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...
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.
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manymindspod.bsky.social
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...
aymericcollart.bsky.social
📚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
aymericcollart.bsky.social
Thank you for the kind words!
aymericcollart.bsky.social
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...!
Language diversity in conferences
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reilly-coglab.com
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
Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
www.reilly-coglab.com
aymericcollart.bsky.social
No suggestions, just a big thank you for sharing!
aymericcollart.bsky.social
A psycholinguistic lab on wheels, the dream!
jasminpfeifer.bsky.social
It was a wild ride with the Spraaklab in Steinach! In 4 days over a 100 people participated and we recorded 80 of them from 16 to 90 y. We collected data for 5 studies and were visited by the media 5 times. The weather was perfect exactly for our 4 days! And the 3 of us had lots of fun!
@hhu.bsky.social @teambuergeruni.bsky.social
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martenvandermeulen.bsky.social
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
This map shows locations for endangered languages in Europe ranked by language vitality
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
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
Psychological models and their distractors
Nature Reviews Psychology - The lack of models in psychology hinders scientific progress. To start addressing this problem, we need a clear understanding of what models are and what they are not.
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