doing research on language evolution, language change, language learning and everything cognition-related; Postdoc @univienna @cles_ncu thematzing.bsky.social
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Feb 19
New paper out! 😀 Wir untersuchten die Bedeutung von Sprachpausen in interkulturellen Interaktionen - diesmal eine Publikation auf Deutsch, im Interkulturellen Forum der deutsch-chinesischen Kommunikation 😊
🚨New Publication Alert 🚨
Perfektes Timing zum Chinesischen Neuen Jahr! 🐎Gerade erschienen: "Bedeutungsschwangere Pausen in Kognition und Interaktion: Pragmatische und psycholinguistische Perspektiven auf interkulturelle Kommunikation"
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4 Sep 2025
Check out my new blog on Psychology Today. First post on... speech pauses :) @PsychToday psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
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4 Jul 2025
Check out our just published review on "Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary Research Field" 😃
25 Jun 2025
🚨New Publication Alert!🚨
@thematzing and I have written a little review of "Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field." Out now in the cool edited volume "Contemporary Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies"
ALT Chapter 19 Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary and Integrative Research Field In: Contemporary Linguistics: Integrating Languages, Communities, and Technologies Authors: Theresa Matzinger and Michael Pleyer Type: Chapter Pages: 249–264
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4 Jul 2025
Check out this great thread on our just-published paper on the cross-cultural interpretation of speech pauses! We found that the cognitive states associated with long vs. short pauses before giving an answer in a conversation are strikingly similar across cultures🏄open access 🔓
1 Jul 2025
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
Out now in #OpenAccess in Interaction Studies (w/ @thematzing, @zqelizabeth & @PrzemekGurgyn). We looked at how Polish and Chinese participants evaluate inter-turn speech pauses made by native and non-native speakers 1/
ALT A cross-cultural approach to cognitive state attribution based on inter-turn speech pauses Author(s): Theresa Matzinger, Michael Pleyer, Elizabeth Qing Zhang and Przemysław Żywiczyński3
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9 Jan 2025
Don't forget to submit your abstracts for #Protolang9 in Vienna in September 2025! Submission deadline for individual papers and workshops: February 14, 2025. More info: protolang9.univie.ac.at/ Looking forward to seeing you there! @protolang_conf
13 Nov 2024
The #Protolang9 website is live! Join us in Vienna in September 2025: protolang9.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline for individual papers and workshops: February 14, 2025.
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Theresa Matzinger retweeted
7 Jan 2025
We are looking for a short-term postdoc for 3-10 months here at the Center for Language Evolution, NCU Toruń. Super cool work environment and lovely people. Please share!
#PostDoc #postdoc #postdocposition #linguistics #languageevolution
🔊We are looking for a post doc! @CenterImsert
More info here: cles.umk.pl/about/call-for-p…
Or write to: @swacewicz 🧠🤓
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19 Sep 2024
Happy to present our research on gestural alignment and cooperation at #ptnce2024 Thanks for the great conference! @ptnce
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10 Sep 2024
It was a pleasure to present our research on gestural alignment and cooperation at #ICL2024 lots of interesting questions and comments! Thanks for organising a great workshop on multimodality! @ozyurek_a @ICL2024
10 Sep 2024
Theresa Matzinger @thematzing is presenting our joint work with @k_karkowska, Darya Namednikava and @mplacinski92 on the relationship between non-verbal alignment and cooperativeness in a game theory-based TV Show @ICL2024 #ICL2024
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10 Sep 2024
Come and see our PhD student @k_karkowska‘s poster on gestures in bilinguals tonight! @cles_ncu #ICL2024
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19 May 2024
Come see our poster tonight! We will show how syntactic alignment between people can predict how cooperatively they behave towards each other 🗣️
18 May 2024
Marek Placiński, @thematzing, Andreas Baumann, Przemysław Żywiczyński, @hartmast, Irene Boehm, Michael Pleyer, Slawomir Wacewicz: Does syntactic alignment predict cooperation? A corpus study of the Prisoner's Dilemma
evolang2024.github.io/procee…
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19 May 2024
Come see our talk tomorrow on how speech pauses influence as how knowledgeable, confident and willing we perceive others, and what this can tell us about the evolution of language 🗣️
19 May 2024
Monday, 20th May (11:05-11:30, Ballroom A)
@thematzing, @symbolicstorage, @zqelizabeth & Przemysław Żywiczyński: The evolution of silence: The role of inter-turn speech pauses in the co-evolution of language and cooperation
evolang2024.github.io/procee…
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8 Apr 2024
☀️What a day: Die Sonne scheint, die Vögel zwitschern und... das Programm für #pint24 ist endlich online!
🍻 Von 13.-15. Mai könnt ihr in 6 Städten in Österreich Neuestes aus Wissenschaft und Forschung erfahren - und das gemütlich bei einem Bier 😀
👉 pintofscience.at
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25 Mar 2024
Schedule is now up! evolang2024.github.io
15 Dec 2023
#EvoLang2024 submission announcements are going out now! Hope to see you all in Madison!! Registration and info on (7!) amazing workshops will be posted in the next few days! evolang2024.github.io
@EvolangConf
@CulturalEvolSoc
@cogsci_soc
@Durham_DCERC
@MPI_NL
@UoE_CLE
ALT Picture of poster for evolang 15 2024 May 18-21 showing aerial view of Madison, Wisconsin
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Mit dem #Förderprogramm „Disruptive Innovation – Early Career Seed Money“ unterstützen die @oeaw und der @FWF_at junge Wissenschaftler:innen bei der Umsetzung völlig neuartiger Ideen und ermöglichen damit den Einstieg in die Spitzenforschung. 💡
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21 Mar 2024
Very proud and grateful to receive a disruptive innovation grant from @oeaw and @FWF_at! Thanks for funding innovative and risky ideas by early career researchers! Excited to start my project on the aesthetic appeal of linguistic patterns soon! Stay tuned! 💪
21 Mar 2024
Lässt sich anhand von #Schwarmintelligenz die Zukunft vorhersagen? 🧐 Können Graswurzelinitiativen die #Demokratie retten? Dieses Out-of-the-Box-Denken 📦 steht im Zentrum eines neuen Förderprogramms von @FWF_at und #ÖAW.
📸: Elia Zilberberg
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21 Mar 2024
Lässt sich anhand von #Schwarmintelligenz die Zukunft vorhersagen? 🧐 Können Graswurzelinitiativen die #Demokratie retten? Dieses Out-of-the-Box-Denken 📦 steht im Zentrum eines neuen Förderprogramms von @FWF_at und #ÖAW.
📸: Elia Zilberberg
tinyurl.com/3tak4tj2
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21 Mar 2024
Zwei Millionen für "unerhörte" und mutige Ideen von Jungforschern - 30 Wissenschafter gehen im Rahmen des Förderprogramms "Disruptive Innovation - Early Career Seed Money" mit je 75.000 Euro unkonventionellen Projekten nach @oeaw #Forschung #Wissenschaft go.apa.at/wHpGKXmQ
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Theresa Matzinger retweeted
20 Mar 2024
- Kavya Shetty @sci_ko7 from @MaxPerutzLabs
- Theresa Matzinger @thematzing from @univienna
- Katharina Schmidt from @AITtomorrow2day
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20 Mar 2024
Our Women Groundbreakers Art Exhibition (anyavero.com/) by @AnyaVeroArt and the EDI Group held at @IMPvienna was an amazing event in celebration of Women and Girls in Science.
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19 Mar 2024
Heute Abend halte ich im Philosophischen Café des Kulturhofs Amstetten einen Impulsvortrag zum Thema "Haben Tiere Sprache?" Ich freue mich auf spannende Diskussionen über Tierkognition und Tierethik. Alle sind herzlich willkommen! kulturhof.at/
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