Excited to be part of the continued growth of CLS as a strong and collaborative research community.

I am especially looking forward to working closely with colleagues to strengthen connections between research lines, support researchers at different career stages, and enhance the visibility and long-term sustainability of our work.

Happy to share that as of today, I am starting a new role as Research Coordinator at the Centre for Language Studies (CLS). In this position, I will contribute to the coordination and strategic development of research within the institute.

Does criticism hurt less in a foreign language?

We put this to the test in our new paper in the International Journal of Bilingualism

Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Special thanks to Luca and Alice!

We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

The Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting abstract submission deadline has been extended to March 21!
mmmm2026.github.io

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗪𝟮)

An exciting opportunity for outstanding researchers ready to lead an independent research group and shape the future of multimodal language research.

Learn more and apply here: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Almost half of our doctoral network is already on board 🚀

We welcome our new Doctoral Candidates:

- Gulsu Tecer at University of Barcelona (Spain)

- Marica Belmonte at Open University of Catalonia (Spain)

- Lukas Hageman at University College Dublin (Ireland)

- Yixuan Zhu at BCBL (Spain)

#MSCA

Psycholinguistic perspectives on face-to-face conversation Nature Reviews Psychology - Language production and comprehension are often studied as separate processes, but they are intertwined in naturalistic conversation. In this Review, Holler and Kuhlen...

Psycholinguistic perspectives on face-to-face conversation. New paper by @judithholler.bsky.social & Anna K. Kuhlen
doi.org/10.1038/s44159-026-00538-1

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📣📣📣Job alert Multimodal Language Department Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP LEADER POSITION (W2 BBESG) lnkd.in/eaq5MW9a

📣📣📣Multimodal Relevance : Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults by gazing at their gestures . New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

🎉 Our first two Doctoral Candidates have started!

Raphaël Trouille at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social (Belgium) on 1 January 2026.

Laura Marchesini at @univlille.bsky.social (France) on 16 February 2026.

The network keeps growing and more Doctoral Candidates will join in the coming months! 🚀

Unfortunately, our great project manager got other interesting opportunities, so she will leave our project. We are now looking for another coordinator to join our team. For more information, see below.

De moedertaalspreker revisited Zij zeggen: er bestaan wel talen, maar geen ‘native speakers’. Ik zou het andersom zeggen.

Zij zeggen: er bestaan wel talen, maar geen ‘native speakers’. Ik zou het andersom zeggen.

neerlandistiek.nl/2026/02/de-m...

Kom Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur studeren aan de Radboud Universiteit in Nijmegen!

Mijn stukje over de reden waarom mensen over 'awkward' onderwerpen liever in een vreemde taal spreken, staat (ook) op Taalwijs!

taalwijs.nu/2025/12/10/u...

I made an IPA keyboard which does not show the three-term labels or arrange the symbols according to the IPA chart. This is mainly for digital phonetics exams or studying for exams. For anyone who needs a keyboard that doesn't reveal all the answers: congzhang365.github.io/IPA_keyboard/

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

The LingComm Grants are back!

These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"

They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected

But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@nebrija.bsky.social published the news about the first event of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network held in Madrid, Spain, on 1-3 December 2025.

Read the news here (in Spanish) 👇
www.nebrija.com/medios/actua...

#MSCA #UniversidadNebrija #DoctoralNetwork #Research

Faculty of Arts partner in European Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD network | Radboud University Together with an international team, Susanne Brouwer (CLS) has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant for the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT project.

Our project is featured in a news item on the Radboud University website 📣

"Together with an international team, @susannebrouwer.bsky.social (CLS) has been awarded a prestigious MSCA Doctoral Network grant for the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT project."

www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

#Radboud #MSCA #Research #PhD

Congrats Dr. Yung, you did it! Well done! Very interesting work on "Bilingual syntax as implicit learning". @yunghankhoe.bsky.social www.mpi.nl/events/imprs...

The findings thus suggest that prior experience and the type of art matter more for aesthetic judgments than the language in which art is encountered.

Read about the details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics

🔎What did we find?
Using a foreign language did not change aesthetic judgments. Instead, artworks felt more profound when they were familiar, and music was consistently rated as more meaningful than paintings, regardless of the language used.

🛠️ How did we study it?
Across 3 experiments, Polish-English and Dutch-English bilinguals rated songs 🎤 (with lyrics) and paintings 🖼️ (without language) on how profound, likable, recommendable, and familiar they felt, while completing the task in either their native language or a foreign language.

Happy New Year to all! Starting the year on a high note with a new publication together with my collaborators from Poland. Special thanks to Wojtek!

❓What did we study?
We examined whether using a foreign language influences how people experience and evaluate art.

Finally out: a really cool paper led by Abdel Elouatiq @mpi-nl.bsky.social on what parents do when they have to teach their infants a language that doesn't need vowels to form words (Tashlhiyt Berber, spoken in Morocco)

doi.org/10.1177/0142...

Invite Abdel for a talk, he's got so much more data!

Copies of the book Speaking In Pictures by Neil Cohn

Wow! My author copies arrived early for my new book from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication. It looks beautiful, and after working on it for 7 years I’m so glad it’s out in the world soon! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip