In our next LangSci talk, Shiri Lev-Ari,  Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a talk on „Language from a social networks perspective„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams January 23rd at 16:15!

After the talk we would like to invite you all to celebrate the start of the new year together in building A2.2, room 2.07.1.

In our next LangSci talk, Wing-Yee Chow,  Associate Professor in Experimental Linguistics at University College London (UCL), will give a talk on „Incremental prediction in real-time language comprehension: from meaning to pitch contour„.

The hybrid talk will take place only on MS Teams December 12th at 16:15!

In our next LangSci talk, Alane Suhr, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley EECS, will give a talk on „The Role of Joint Embodiment in Situated Language-Based Interactions„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 28th at 16:15!

In our next LangSci colloquium, Yang Xu, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, will give a talk on „Evolution of the lexicon„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 14th at 16:15!

In our next LangSci talk, Livio Gaeta, Professor for German Language and Linguistics from the University of Turin, will give a talk on „Between Productivity and Creativity: Snowclones we live by„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams November 7th at 16:15!

Project C6 „ Information Management as a Factor for Syntactic Variation in the History of German” is pleased to invite applications for a postdoctoral position. Details on the vacant position can be found here!

We are happy to announce that this year’s Small Grant Scheme has been awarded to Margarita Ryzhova. Reviewers and submission board were convinced by the proposed research visit to the University of Lille to continue collaborative research on the effects of simplification strategies in French medical texts, examining differences between domain expert and non-expert readers. Congratulations and all the best for the research project!

In our next LangSci colloquium, Benjamin Bergen, Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Director of the Language and Cognition Lab at UC San Diego, will give a talk on „Large Language Models are impressive but we still need grounding to explain human cognition„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams October 24th at 16:15!

In our first LangSci talk of the semester, Amalia Arvaniti, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Radboud University, will give a talk on „What can cross-linguistic research on spontaneous speech tell us about intonation meaning?„.

The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams October 17th at 16:15!

The submission deadline for the 2nd edition of the conference on „Rational Approaches in Language Science“ (RAILS) is approaching soon (Sep 30th).

Don’t forget to submit your abstract!

More information can be found here.
For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de.