Marieke Schouwstra

The horrific reality for people of #Gaza & #Israel since 7 October 2023 detailed in @UNHumanRights report. Close to 70% of those killed in Gaza are children & women. Unprecedented violations of IHL give rise to concerns of atrocity crimes. The violence must stop immediately.

Come work at USC! The dept. of linguistics is hiring for an open rank position in computational approaches to linguistics: usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angele… I'm on the search committee, and would be happy to field any questions about the position.

Now that an increasing number of colleagues and students have asked me how they can contribute to the protests against the budget cuts imposed on Dutch universities, here's a detailed "Action List" written by @IngridRobeyns Spread the word! crookedtimber.org/2024/09/06/act…

(2) The patterns observed in LSN might be the result of meaning-dependent variability in word order combined with the constraints of a verb-final linguistic convention. 8/8

Our conclusions? (1) Patterns from language emergence experiments are relevant in naturally emerging language, and can help us better understand them. 7/8

New paper with @DrMollyFlaherty! See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111… Summary thread here :-) 1/8

Come check out poster 775 today, where @danielle_naeg will be toppling blocks! #CogSci2024 #spatialcognition

How would you describe these objects using just gesture? What drives variation/alignment of these gestures? Come see @katie__mudd talk about this! #CogSci2024 T.21.02 Friday, 10:30, Diamond II (second talk)

Check this out, my PhD student Rosa Zaaijer will tell you all about our experiment @Rapid_Razor_Bob #LL24 folia.nl/nl/wetenschap/…

Looking for a (fully funded) PhD position? Like combining experiments and distributed semantic modelling? Apply, apply, apply! **Modelling word order and Cognitive Constraints** Deadline 31st May vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

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Paper alert! 📢 Check out the paper by @symbolicstorage et al. which debates #compositionality in #linguistics. Is it a defining feature of human #language? 🤔 The authors examine usage-based views and cultural transmission. link.springer.com/article/10.100… #PTNCE @cles_ncu

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@bkdalli @UvA_Amsterdam @Multimodallang @MPI_NL Thank you for hosting me, @MPI_NL, and for looking after me, @anitaslonimska! It was a great day full of interesting conversations.

Out of the horrible darkness of the #Oct7 massacre, there are shreds of light in the form of heroic stories of rescue and humanity. Watch this inspiring story that was just now revealed.