Marieke Schouwstra

Evolutionary linguist. Lover of helicopters, costume drama, and convexity. Mum.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

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.

[Canaan Breiss @CanaanBreiss]

Come work at USC! The dept. of linguistics is hiring for an open rank position in computational approaches to linguistics: https://t.co/KCnr5eafzP

I'm on the search committee, and would be happy to field any questions about the position.

[rens bod @rensbod.bsky.social @rensbod]

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!

https://t.co/w9C6CbEsnU

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

(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

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

New paper with @DrMollyFlaherty! See https://t.co/jvcTANwZzE Summary thread here :-) 1/8

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

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

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

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

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

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)

[Monique Flecken @moniqueflecken]

Check this out, my PhD student Rosa Zaaijer will tell you all about our experiment @Rapid_Razor_Bob #LL24

https://t.co/8bQDTPINq9

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

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 https://t.co/CaTIxWjYzo

[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

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[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Breaking | At this moment, Israeli occupation aircrafts are bombing northern Gaza, targeting and destroying residential neighborhoods in Jabalia refugee camp.

[PTNCE @ptnce]

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. https://t.co/y48ontXUop #PTNCE @cles_ncu

[Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒 @Limor_Raviv]

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[Marieke Schouwstra @NotNotALinguist]

@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.

[האם ראית את האופק לאחרונה? @Horizon_lately]

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.