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
A flyer giving detailed instructions for a wine tasting
I think @sofiaruediger.bsky.social would have been very interested in this experiment at lunchtime (!) at #SLE2025 😅
The announcement slide
Congratulations to Alexandra Bosshard for winning the #SLE2025 award for best presentation by a post-doctoral researcher with her excellent talk on processing perspectives in animal compositionality!
@abstractionerc.bsky.social Post-Doc @grambelli.bsky.social giving her talk about LLMs' analogical ability with novel compounds at the last day of the #SLE2025 conference!🗣️🥑
It’s inspiring to work alongside such a brilliant colleague!
Just gave my talk “How Analogy Drives Language Comprehension: The Case of Novel Compounds Interpretation” 🤔🥑🤖
Explored how L1, L2 speakers & LLMs interpret brand-new compounds- L2+LLMs leaning on compositionality, L1 speakers often rely on analogy.
Presented at the #Analogy workshop, #SLE2025 ✨
A comic of a Zipfian distribution where the curve looks like a dinosaur with head, body & tail
Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩
Just leaving Bordeaux under heavy rain. But #SLE2025 was a huge highlight for me this year. Scientifically so rich, we couldn't have hoped for a better workshop. On a personnal level, I also met most kind and inspiring individuals that sure made the last 4 days very special. Thanks!
Bold choice to start the day after the conference dinner at 8.30 ☕☕☕ Loading up on coffee to get ready for the last day of #SLE2025. Curious about what the 'Lunch and wine tasting linguistic experiment' on the schedule for early afternoon will be 🧐
cover of the Journal of French Language Studies
Delegates attending the #SLE2025 conference this week may enjoy the latest articles from JFLS:
📘 cup.org/41qDPbT
Read papers about African Frenches, Guernésiais, social meanings, and much more.
A conference bingo card with many things crossed out already
#SLE2025 is winning at this year's conference bingo so far
(Design by @leftyveggie.bsky.social)
📸 Live at the 58th Annual Meeting of the SLE at Université Bordeaux Montaigne!
📚 In case you're around, please feel welcome to visit our booth and to have a chat with acquisitions editor Ymke Verploegen.
More info: 👉 benjamins.com/conferences/...
#sle2025
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A slide comparing Linguistics and machine learning
#SLE2025 plenary by @dagmardivjak.bsky.social & Petar Milin: Top-down wisdom versus bottom-up noise: can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise? Dagmar contrasts two ways of knowing language, in linguistics & machine learning. LLMs successfully generate & respond to text w/o linguistic insights
Abstraction and generalization are 🔥 topics in any linguistic and NLP conference.. and @abstractionerc.bsky.social team is always there to capture the moment! #SLE2025
Dagmar and Petar being introduced while standing in front of their title slide
And now the plenary I have been really looking forward to: @dagmardivjak.bsky.social and @petarmilin.bsky.social on "Top-down wisdom vs. bottom-up noise: Can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?" A collaborative keynote from the heads of outofourminds.bham.ac.uk/about/ #SLE2025
Now attending the PLENARY SESSION at #SLE2025 in Bordeaux 🇫🇷
@dagmardivjak.bsky.social & @petarmilin.bsky.social: Top-down wisdom versus bottom-up noise: can data (ever) replace linguistic expertise?
Excited to hear their insights! #linguistics #conference
Thomas pointing at a slide
"Behold, the semantic lexicon!" - Thomas is showing us semantic maps (here: of movement and visual patterns) of ideophones in Japanese and Kichwa as an example of the annotation scheme he developed for the semantics of ideophones. Reach out to him if you have similar data! #SLE2025
Thomas in front of one his slides featuring a meme about iconic words vs prosaic words
Next up is @simazhi.bsky.social on ideophones and his impressive work on the Depicticon, a typological database of iconic words in 56 languages. Check out his research here: www.thomasvanhoey.com/projects #SLE2025
The guided city tour of #SLE2025 was a lot of fun and very informative! I can only recommend our guide, Bruno (gentleguide.fr/en/gentlegui...). Very enthusiastic about Bordeaux. I quote: "If you ask me what the nicest monument in Bordeaux is, I will say it's Bordeaux"
#SLE2025 today, brilliant linguists of the next generation were given the floor: Sandra Cronhamn, Anna Hjortdal, and Carmelo Alessandro Basile.
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the roundtable, emily bender talking
Roundtable discussion at #SLE2025 "How to do #linguistics with #AI, How to do #AI with #linguistics" with
@emilymbender.bsky.social , Claire Larsonneur, Benoît Le Blanc & Christian Ludwig
Excited to be at #SLE2025 this week!
Presented 🗣️ two studies:
🔹 Iconicity ratings for Italian language across L1 & L2 speakers
🔹 Ambiguity of generality in a fantastic workshop on "Lexical Ambiguity in the Mind"
Appreciated the feedback & discussions!
Photo of the author of the award-winning book "Modality in contact" holding a copy of the book in front of a table of De Gruyter Mouton books at the 2025 SLE Annual Meeting.
😊 Happy authors, happy publisher!
🎉 Congratulations to our author Carmelo Alessandro Basile for winning the prestigious Eugenio Coseriu Award presented by the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) at their 58th Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. #SLE2025
Me standing next to our poster. On the other side of the poster is a laptop showing a team photo
If the full team can't come with you, you can still take them to your poster presentation 😄 #SLE2025
Poster is also here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
INF Guidelines for research collaboration, CC BY 4.0: crc1646.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/inf/website/...
the title slide
The last #SLE2025 talk of the workshop before the general discussion is by Auriane Le Floch, presented by @tozbu.bsky.social, on rule-based sequences in sooty mangabey vocal communication
#SLE2025 poster session now in full swing!
A slide on evolving complex combinatorial communication
A slide on animal combination systems
The next talk in the #SLE2025 workshop "From #Linguistics to animal communication and back" is by @tozbu.bsky.social on vocal combinations in chimpanzees and relating it to bigger questions regarding the evolution of complex combinatorial communication
A plate of petit fours
Day 2 of #SLE2025 has started! Yesterday's conference reception took place in the city centre and we had the pleasure of having very tasty petits fours, 10/10 😋
