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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
The full proceedings of #Evolang2026 the 16th International Conference on the Evolution of language are out now!
~125 papers and 575 pages of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on language evolution!
doi.org/10.17617/2.3696655
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RT @phschlenker_ac: Just published in Biological Reviews (viewable, not printable unless you subscribe): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
And that was #EvolangXVI! Thanks to all the organisers and helpers, it was an amazing experience as always! See you all in 2028 in Nijmegen, NL for #EvolangXVII, organised by @Limor_Raviv @ozyurek_a & @ProfSimonFisher !
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
I'm hiring! 📢 Come work with me on how different social pressures shape the evolution of new communication systems in the lab! Deadline for application is May 18th! mpi.nl/career-education/vaca…
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
"Before we name, we touch. We propose that the roots of language lie not in abstract, amodal symbols but in early bodily experience." Our Opinion paper is out in TICS. Congrats Luca Sergey Rinaldi !!
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
Mar 10
📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (plz RT🙏)
What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD!
4 yrs, fully funded, MPI-NL; april 3
mpi.nl/career-education/vaca…
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New open-access paper with @ozyurek_a & @manucampisi5
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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We show that speakers increase the use of ostensive cues (e.g., gaze shift and/or demonstratives in speech) to mark gestures as communicatively relevant with children vs. adults. We also show that use of the ostensive cues follows the principle of communicative efficiency! 5/6
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This work takes a first step toward bridging relevance theory and empirical research on multimodal communication in context, illustrating how the theoretical concept of ostension can be applied to a multimodal view of language. 6/6
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
Our new paper out now @Glossa! ✨
Across 4 languages (signed and spoken), we show that feedback is dominated by non-manual signals (head movements, facial gestures). Verbal/manual feedback is not central. Time for a multimodal reconceptualization. 🔓 glossa-journal.org/article/i…
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You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJbsHV…
Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
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Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
25 Nov 2025
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ Marcus Perlman, @glupyan, Koen de Reus & @Limor_Raviv ).
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @TrendsCognSci!
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
12 Nov 2025
Join MOSAIC’s November Grand Challenge to explore how to annotate social interaction with ELAN, from classic methods to integrations with speech, motion and computer vision.
With @anitaslonimska, @mamus_ezgi and @shoakamine1 from the MPI .
🗓 20 Nov | 15:00–16:30 GMT | Zoom
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PhD Opportunity at UCL – Tactile Sign Language & DeafBlind Communication. Funded PhD at DCAL exploring tactile BSL and DeafBlind interaction. UK only. Deadline 1 Dec 2025.
ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/dea…
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
2 Oct 2025
📅 16 Oct | 14:00–15:30 (GMT) | Zoom
👓 Wearable Facial Multimodal Sensing with @emteqlabs
Join MOSAIC's October Grand Challenge to explore how next-gen facial worn wearables open new opportunities for studying multimodal social interaction. Reply below for zoom link
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Anita Slonimska, PhD retweeted
12 Sep 2025
Our paper is finally out! "Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages" Journal of Linguistics - bit.ly/4pmru2J
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