@samueljbeer.bsky.social showed us the problems that even a single 107-word wordlist can bring , how to contextualize it, and how to recontextualize it. It’s worth it to halt and break your head for a while over a small detail like a punctuation mark.
#dilegma3
Discussion on Legacy Materials 3
Group pic
#DiLegMa3
I always try to wear my most ideophonic shirt when presenting about ideophones.
By the way #DiLegMa3 is a great conference! Can’t wait what today brings but check out @samueljbeer.bsky.social ‘s overview for what the first day was all about.
One of our Housewives on tv “reported” that she finally found someone who ✨ understood ✨ her in ChatGPT… so I’m guessing you’re not looking for an echo chamber lol.
Plenair praatje van Jacqueline Klooster bij de #KZM
(Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis)
Ik heb haar boek over *Medusa* gelezen en vond het echt goed.
The gods of academic publishing have been kind to us with two recent publications (in Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads 2025 [2026]; and in Language Variation and Change 2026).
Here is a short reflection about them.
Let me know what you think!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...
Come do a PhD with Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and myself at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, in collaboration with our colleague @matthuntgardner.bsky.social!
Details in the link. Feel free to spread to interested parties.
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Back from Japan where I got to present at the Iconicity conference (#IcoLL) and the Hokkaido linguistics workshop (#Hokugen)
You can read all about it here!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...
Omgs @lingucat.bsky.social that’s very nice of you to say!! Hope I can see your slidecraft somewhere soon!!
Day three of #IcoLL
In the blink of an eye it’s already over.
Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.
Day two of #IcoLL. It follows a great first day.
Today is cat day in Japan because it’s ninini ににに, reminiscent of the onomatopoeia for cat cry nyaaa にゃー
Opening of IcoLL
Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature.
Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan!
#ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26
Huh? It's 2026 and I can't snap my line to a corner of a square in powerpoint? Make it make sense.
#ppt #powerpoint #whatsthepoint
Also, the world is quite dreary so find your pockets of goodness and cultivate them.
IPA is a magic spell that makes anyone who can read IPA make the noises with their mouth
This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents).
uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...
I knew 8 of the 200+ editorial board members that mention linguistics, most of which probably have gotten stuck in this venus fly trap. At least we know they are "willing to uphold high editorial standards" and "[s]upport the ethos and vision of the journal" lol
Ssshhht 🤫
😈😈🔥🔥🔥🔥
Well I can honestly say that the reviewer wasn’t me but I can say that I’ve seen a very similar paper at the end of last year (“style” and AI wise not content wise) and I’m happy to say the Editor followed the two reviewers’ advice to reject.
The mystery for me was how it even got through to revs…
Academia Wrapped 2025. It's here. Find out what 2025 had in store for me.
It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise.
#AcademiaWrapped2025
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-1...
After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves.
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
The real magic is ✨️regex✨️
As I show in my new preprint, #Bayesian statistics is no longer just a niche tool. It’s becoming mainstream in linguistics research. A survey of journal articles shows a rapid rise in Bayesian regression over the past five years. Why?
#Bayes #Statistics #Linguistics
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Yikes. I forgot Academia.e d u is still at it!
I wish I didn’t like it lol.
Honoured to have given a plenary lecture at the #SLE2025 conference in Bordeaux!
I dicussed how modal constructions of necessity and obligation in #SingaporeEnglish are affected by contact phenomena.
📺 If interested, watch the full plenary here:
#linguistics
Thanks so much @lingucat.bsky.social !!
But Thorn what about your exorbitant CO2 tarot and fountain pen footprint!! Not to mention the artisanal ink milked from fresh octopi 🐙
Think of the turtles 🐢 next time you take up the pen 🖊️
Can a study rightfully state its “effect is found ACROSS LANGUAGES” when it’s only two (in this case English and another well-studied one)?
What’s the minimum? Serious question.
#langsky #linguistics