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📢This month, two new Ask a Linguist posts designed to be read together! From the myth of “monolingualism” to the social realities of multilingualism in South Tyrol. 🗣️

👇🏼Links below.

Happy reading!

#LANGUAGE

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📢 Let’s start the new year with two fresh blog posts! This month, you’ll discover what schizophrenia can tell us about how language works, and how AI is changing the teaching and assessment of English.

👇🏼Links below.

Happy reading!

#LANGUAGE

Verfallen, verdorben, verseucht? Sprachverfall, Sprachverhunzung, Denglisch, Sprachverarmung der Jugend und so weiter und so fort … Wer kennt sie nicht, die Klagelieder zur deutschen Sprache. Aber sind die Sorgen wirklich berechtigt?...

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@andreaabel.bsky.social

How Important Is Quality Assurance in Terminology Databases? What role does quality assurance play in maintaining terminology? It ensures data integrity and functionality. Organizations can maximize versatility and reuse by implementing structured data models,....

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📢 Two new blog posts on "Ask a Linguist" for a cozy read on these dark November evenings... Take a break, grab a cup of tea and enjoy! 🍵📖

Links below! 👇🏼

#LANGUAGE

È possibile digitalizzare e correggere i testi storici automaticamente? Come possiamo rendere utilizzabili i testi antichi dalla ricerca contemporanea? Un compito un tempo affidato alla correzione manuale può oggi garantire risultati sorprendenti grazie alla sinergia tra...

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Cosa significa migratismo? Un lodevole intento di valorizzare il plurilinguismo di scrittrici e scrittori con traiettorie di migrazione, ma anche un termine che rinforza stigmi e gerarchizzazioni? Una riflessione per stimolare....

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📢 We’re excited to share two fresh blog posts: Discover how AI can help us analyse historical texts and what migratismo means!

Links below! 👇🏼

#LANGUAGE

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Photo of the SummerTrans 2025 opening.

Photo of the SummerTrans 2025 opening.

📢The 9th edition of SummerTrans has kicked off at Eurac Research in Bolzano! ✨

Co-organised w/ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social under the auspices of the International Academy for #Translation & Interpreting, this year’s focus is on human & #machinetranslation w/ a focus on #legaltranslation!

📢 New release! "Teacher Questionnaire for Research on Plurilingual Education", a tool for researchers studying teachers’ plurilingual practices.

Get it here👉🏼 hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124...

#plurilingualeducation #questionnaire #teachers #multilingualism #CLARIN

🎉 Our very first #Interspeech2025 paper is out!

We’re thrilled to share our initial step toward developing #speech translation technology for South Tyrolean.🤩

📄 "Speech transcription from South Tyrolean #Dialect to Standard German with Whisper"

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Photo of Marta and Maria at the IMISCOE 2025 conference.

👩‍🏫Last week at the 22nd Decentering Migration Studies conference in Paris! Maria Stopfner & Marta Guarda presented on teachers & students as mediators for social cohesion in postmigrant societies. More research needed to decenter #migrationstudies!

#LANGUAGE #IMISCOE2025 #plurilingualism

📢 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THE ENTIRE #SummerTrans IX by 15 July!
NB: Registration to single courses only has been opened and will be possible until 1 September

📅 21–27.09.2025
📍 Bolzano/Bozen (I)
🔍 Human vs Machine Translation (focus on legal #translation)
👉 Register now: lnkd.in/dGrPjxM9

In che lingua parla la scuola? Le Nuove Indicazioni Nazionali per il primo ciclo d’istruzione offrono una visione educativa ambiziosa, ponendosi come un vero e proprio manifesto politico-culturale, che riafferma il ruolo della scuo...

✍️ Quale plurilinguismo viene riconosciuto e valorizzato nelle nuove Indicazioni Nazionali per il primo ciclo di istruzione? Una riflessione alla luce delle pratiche e delle ricerche condotte in un territorio multilingue come l’Alto Adige/Südtirol.

#plurilinguismo

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Logo of the conference.

👩‍🏫 We are proud to participate in the 20th #ICML2025 conference on Minority Languages at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotà! Our Marta Guarda is talking about validating #heritagelanguages in the mainstream classroom from the lens of epistemic justice.

#minoritylanguages #LANGUAGE

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📢 New in our #CLARIN repository!
5 datasets from the HELLO CAMPANIA project by the University of Naples exploring heritage languages spoken by immigrant communities in Italy's Campania region. 🌍🗣️

Our total now reaches 40 research datasets! 🤩
🔗 clarin.eurac.edu/repository/x...

#LANGUAGE #OpenData

Muttersprache – ein Etikett, (zu) verschiedene Inhalte? Der Begriff „Muttersprache” ist allgegenwärtig doch er wird selten eindeutig definiert. In diesem Text geht Prof. in Andrea Abel seinen vielschichtigen Bedeutungen auf den Grund.

Was heißt eigentlich #Muttersprache? Ein Begriff, der viel verwendet, aber selten eindeutig ist. Andrea Abel beleuchtet seine widersprüchlichen Bedeutungen – zwischen #Identität, Kompetenz und #Ideologie. Lesen Sie ihr Editorial hier:
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How can language varieties be managed in #terminologydatabases? @natasciaralli.bsky.social will delve into this topic at #MDTT2025!😊

📢 REGISTRATION TO SINGLE COURSES IS NOW OPEN!

📅 When: 21–27 September 2025
📍 Where: Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
🎯 Target: you!
🔍 Theme: Human vs Machine Translation with a special focus on legal translation
👉 Register now: lnkd.in/dkXTuXdd

Was passiert mit Sprachdaten am Ende eines Projektes? Da kommen diese Forscher:innen von Eurac Research und lassen einen seitenweise Fragebögen ausfüllen, Texte schreiben, machen Interviews oder filmen einen dabei, wie man mit jemand anderem spricht – ab...

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How much of plain language is about language? People often think that writing in plain language means using small words, avoiding jargon or writing to a certain grade level. However, plain language is actually writing that is focused on readers’....

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Let the summer begin with two new blog posts! ⛱️☀️

Discover why plain language goes beyond just choosing the right words and learn what linguists actually do with massive amounts (or megabytes) of language data once a project ends.

Happy reading! Links below 👇

#LANGUAGE

We’re now on BlueSky! The Italian Association for DH has just launched its official account!

📅 This is the week of the #AIUCD2025 Conference in Verona:
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📡 We’ll be sharing updates and highlights from the conference right here.

🖖 See you soon in Verona!

Warum gibt es in bistro keine weiblichen Personenbezeichnungen? bistro hilft uns zwar beim Übersetzen von „Strafverteidiger“ ins Italienische, aber nicht von „Strafverteidigerin“. Grund dafür sind die vielen Unklarheiten beim Erfassen weiblicher Personenbezeichnun...

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Quanto parlano italiano le lingue del mondo? L’italiano è preso d’assalto dall’inglese, ma che è dell’italiano nelle altre lingue? A caccia di italianismi lontano da qui.

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✍️This month on our blog, we reveal some famous Italianisms around the world & provide surprising information on how different languages –like Chinese– deal w/ them. We also explain why it's so challenging to represent female designations in legal terminology DBs. Have fun!

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#LANGUAGE