Jan Chromý
@janchromy.bsky.social
psycholinguist, based in Prague, head of the ERCEL Lab (https://ercel.ff.cuni.cz/)
4 million reaction times, 1,800 participants, countless insights. Our richly annotated self-paced reading corpus of newspaper headlines is here. Check it out.
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The HeCz corpus: A large, richly annotated reading corpus of newspaper headlines in Czech - Behavior Research Methods
Large behavioral datasets that provide detailed data on reading processes are valuable resources for a range of researchers working in linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. This paper present...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
4 million reaction times, 1,800 participants, countless insights. Our richly annotated self-paced reading corpus of newspaper headlines is here. Check it out.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Check out our new paper on garden-path processing in English: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond initial misanalysis: the disruptive nature of garden-path sentences processing
This study investigates the resulting representations of two types of garden-path structures in English: the main verb/reduced relative ambiguity (e.g., The professor awarded the grant gained more ...
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July 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Check out our new paper on garden-path processing in English: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paper out!
New attraction paper alert 🚨 Czech very much lacks strong number attraction effects, so what happens when these speakers process attraction sentences in their L2 English? They show the effect! Joint work with @janchromy.bsky.social, Norbert Vanek and James Brand
June 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Paper out!
Cool idea for a special issue!
JML special issue on nonveridical language comprehension, co-edited by @golfwriterkiel.bsky.social and myself - deadline is January 31, 2026. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #linguistics
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May 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Cool idea for a special issue!
Come to Prague in September!
The deadline for #AMLaP2025 in wonderful Prague 🇨🇿 organised by @janchromy.bsky.social has been extended to April 30! Send us your stuff! amlap2025.ff.cuni.cz
AMLaP 2025
amlap2025.ff.cuni.cz
April 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Come to Prague in September!
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Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Vacatures bij de RUG
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April 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Exciting opportunity! We’re offering a fully funded four-year PhD position in the fields of sociolinguistics, experimental pragmatics and cognitive linguistics @unigroningen.bsky.social! Join Alexander Martin and me to investigate the social meaning of address forms: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...
LINGUIST List 36.1018 Jobs: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax: Post-Doc in Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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March 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A 3-year full-time post-doc position in Prague! I'll be grateful for reposts. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions. linguistlist.org/issues/36/10...
Check out a cool study by my colleagues: doi.org/10.1017/lang...
Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender | Language and Cognition | Cambridge Core
Feminine fox, not so feminine box: constraints on linguistic relativity effects for grammatical and conceptual gender - Volume 17
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March 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Check out a cool study by my colleagues: doi.org/10.1017/lang...
Paper out! @radlacina.bsky.social @annlaurin.bsky.social
Only case-syncretic nouns attract: Czech and Slovak gender agreement
Attraction effects in the comprehension of ungrammatical sentences have long been observed for number and gender agreement across many languages. Thes…
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March 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Paper out! @radlacina.bsky.social @annlaurin.bsky.social
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Once again we made it to The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Beavers save Czech taxpayers £1m by flooding ex-army training site
Herbivorous rodents built a dam in area officials were planning to make a barrier to shield Klabava River
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February 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Once again we made it to The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Paper out!
Learning or Boredom? Task Adaptation Effects in Sentence Processing Experiments
Abstract. Task adaptation, characterized by a progressive increase in speed throughout experimental trials, has been extensively observed across various paradigms. Yet, the underlying mechanisms drivi...
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December 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Paper out!
Anyone else using AI text to speech to create audio stimuli for psycholinguistic experiments? 🤖
November 29, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Anyone else using AI text to speech to create audio stimuli for psycholinguistic experiments? 🤖
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👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.
🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
shorturl.at/7hLH0
🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
shorturl.at/7hLH0
Doctoral Research Fellow (271220) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral Research Fellow (271220), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 12, 2025
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November 22, 2024 at 9:03 AM
👩🎓👨🎓Fully funded PhD position available to come work with me at @unioslo.bsky.social using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism.
🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
shorturl.at/7hLH0
🔴 Deadline is 12. Jan '24
⏲️ Desired starting date is Mar/April '24
shorturl.at/7hLH0
Applications to the Czech Summer School of Linguistics are now open. See program here: ssol.ff.cuni.cz/ssol-2024/
February 14, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Applications to the Czech Summer School of Linguistics are now open. See program here: ssol.ff.cuni.cz/ssol-2024/
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Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Ferreira Lab
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February 9, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Want to do fun science, hang out with wonderful, supportive people, and live in a bike-friendly college town in northern California? Then come be a postdoc in our lab! Check out our website for details: ferreiralab.faculty.ucdavis.edu
Mass shooting happened at our faculty in Prague today. I was in the building. I locked myself in the office and I was lucky the attacker was on the fourth floor and me on the first. We were later escorted outside by the police and we spent about three hours under police supervision. 1/2
December 21, 2023 at 8:51 PM
Mass shooting happened at our faculty in Prague today. I was in the building. I locked myself in the office and I was lucky the attacker was on the fourth floor and me on the first. We were later escorted outside by the police and we spent about three hours under police supervision. 1/2
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More (or should I say less 🤔) number agreement attraction in 🇨🇿! Our paper with Jan Chromý and Jakub Dotlačil suggests that the phenomenon is either absent in the language or very small in size 1/n
Number Agreement Attraction in Czech Comprehension: Negligible Facilitation Effects
Abstract. Number agreement attraction in comprehension has been extensively studied in various languages and it has been claimed that attraction effects are generally present across languages. In this...
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October 31, 2023 at 4:22 PM
More (or should I say less 🤔) number agreement attraction in 🇨🇿! Our paper with Jan Chromý and Jakub Dotlačil suggests that the phenomenon is either absent in the language or very small in size 1/n
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Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious.
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December 19, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Come do syntax and semantics with us in Oxford! This is another open rank position, so early career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. SynSem people like trees - and Magdalen College has lots of them! Get in touch if curious.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...