Christopher Hammerly

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Christopher Hammerly

@chrishammerly

Assistant Professor @UBCLinguistics. White Earth Ojibwe descendant. Syntax/Psycholinguistics. he/him.

Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Mart 2009

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·21 Nis

Thrilled to share this new paper with @AdrianBStaub and @linguistbrian . TLDR: The "fourth person" in Ojibwe (aka obviation) shows parallel effects to animacy, suggesting person hierarchies capture incremental processing cross-linguistically! Free Link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1exuV_EbvuNgk

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·27 Haz

Happy to be in Leipzig for a week! Giving a talk on “Subatomic Agreement” tomorrow at Universität Leipzig and another on Monday on psycholinguistic fieldwork at MPI for Cultural Anthropology. If you’re around here and want to meet my DMs are open!

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UBC Linguistics@UBCLinguistics·23 Haz

Zhang, Babel, & Hammerly are presenting the poster " The online processing of non-native phonological contrasts in L2: from acoustics to lexicon" (D1:21(R1)) June 27 @LabPhon in Seoul. labphon.org/labphon19/day-1

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·7 Haz

Sharing a little @UBCLangScis Q&A about my ongoing and upcoming @SSHRC_CRSH funded work with Anishinaabemowin, focusing right now on building a morphologically parsed corpus. Stay tuned in the coming months for more! languagesciences.ubc.ca/news/june-06-2…

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·9 May

@isabelpapad @UBCLinguistics @KempnerInst Excited to have you coming here!

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Isabel Papadimitriou@isabelpapad·9 May

Really really excited to be joining @UBCLinguistics! I'm so happy to get to work with the lovely people in the department I'll be going to @KempnerInst in the interim, again lucky to work with lovely, interdisciplinary people I'd love to hang if you're in Boston or Vancouver!

UBC Linguistics@UBCLinguistics

We are thrilled that Isabel Papadimitriou (@isabelpapad) will be joining @UBCLinguistics as an Assistant Professor as of Sept 2025!

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UBC Linguistics@UBCLinguistics·8 May

We are thrilled that Isabel Papadimitriou (@isabelpapad) will be joining @UBCLinguistics as an Assistant Professor as of Sept 2025!

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·25 Nis

@wmatchin Lexical semantics versus syntax: Yes! Compositional semantics versus syntax: Not so sure!

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William Matchin@wmatchin·25 Nis

Syntax and semantics are separable components of language processing in the brain.

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Shota Momma@shota_momma·3 Nis

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (2-year contract at UMass linguistics) interested in experimental/computational psycholinguistics. Please email me your CV by 4/19 if you are interested!

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·25 Mar

A fantastic paper! Really interesting finding that further clarifies how the task we choose can influence our findings, especially in agreement attraction.

Anna Laurinavichyute@annlaurin

Paper alert!📢 @tmalsburg and I looked hard into agreement attraction configurations in grammatical sentences, and, against all probability, found stable attraction effects in 3 experiments: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S07…. Why did we find the effects when 30+ other studies failed to?

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·15 Mar

Noticed a typo *of 😭 and no I'm not upgrading to premium so I can fix it.

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·15 Mar

Excited to share a preprint if my reply to Deal (2024) and Oxford (2022), who argue for an interaction/satisfaction approach in Agree. I show why distinguishing between these two conditions is not necessary (and more strongly, why it should be abandoned) ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007966

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·7 Mar

@emhusband "clusivity" is a thing (as in inclusive/exclusive) so I for one am in full support.

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E. Matthew Husband@emhusband·7 Mar

I really want terms like 'sent'/'ence' or 'clusion' to be a thing so I can stop writing "X was present or absent from the stimulus" or "we manipulated the inclusion/exclusion of X in the sentence". Just awful.

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·16 Şub

Understanding Obviation: A Crosslinguistic Perspective Excited to be a part of this workshop coming up in the fall and eager to see interesting submissions that enlighten our understanding of what obviation is! linguistlist.org/issues/35/513/

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·10 Şub

A pun that could only be in Canadian English (or at least not in American English): A restaurant near my apartment doing an all-you-can eat pasta dinner, calling it the "All Access Pass(ta)".

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·1 Şub

So I am looking for cases like this: First omnivorous the probe obtains: 1 -> 2/3 = 1 2/3 -> 1 = 1 2 <-> 3 = DEFAULT (probably looks like 3) Second omnivorous the probe obtains: 2 -> 1/3 = 2 1/3 -> 2 = 2 1 <-> 3 = DEFAULT (probably looks like 3) (3/3)

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·1 Şub

To be clear, Nez Perce (Deal 2015) doesn't fit the bill for a skipping-type omnivorous second since in the 1 -> 2 cases you get first person agreement along the way to second, rather than just skipping the first person entirely. (2/3)

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·1 Şub

I need help with a question RE omnivorous person agreement!! Are there languages that omnivorously seek first or second person? And by this, I mean entirely SKIP agreeing with other persons, so when a 1 or 2 (respectively) isn't around you get default/failed agreement? (1/3)

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·4 Eyl

@anna_pryslopska Had to do this in canada (for a passport application)! I looked into it and the official guidance said to put "child" as the occupation :D

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·6 Nis

@linguistbrian @linguistsakshi This brings me so much joy!!!

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Christopher Hammerly@chrishammerly·24 Mar

What's that thing called again where you combine something extremely undesirable with something you really like? I'm listening to D'Angelo and submitting expense reports (I'll let you guess which is which)

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UBC Linguistics@UBCLinguistics·20 Mar

"A text-to-speech synthesis system for Border Lakes Ojibwe." now out in Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-6) by Hammerly, Fougère, Sierra, Parkhill, Porteous & Quinn . aclanthology.org/2023.computel-…

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@LabPhon @UBCLangScis @SSHRC_CRSH @isabelpapad @UBCLinguistics @KempnerInst @wmatchin @emhusband