Vatcharit (Pond) Chantajinda

PhD student in English Language and Linguistics @UWMadison / Interested in L2 acquisition of morphosyntax; Experimental syntax; Sociolinguistics

[ILLS at UIUC @ILLSatUIUC]

The 17th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society will take place March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Submissions of any field are welcomed. Deadline is January 31st, 2025. Link in our bio!

[Dr. Vahid Aryadoust @VahidAryadoust]

📚Excited to share our recent open-access publication, “Why are some articles highly cited in applied linguistics? A bibliometric study,” in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

📚Co-authored with my MA student, @ZhangShirley11.

https://t.co/0PDVEppR5G

[Pavadee Saisuwan @peevadam]

Our Element “Pride in Asia: Negotiating Ideologies, Localness, and Alternative Futures” is now out online! It is freely available until 14th February 2025! 🥳🎉✌🏼🏳️‍🌈 https://t.co/FC6l0TLNq7 #ม็อบไม่มุ้งมิ้งแต่ตุ้งติ้งค่ะคุณรัฐบาล #ม็อบตุ้งติ้ง

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Undergrad dream: "I want to transform the world"

PhD dream: "I want to transform my discipline"

Postdoc dream: "I want to secure tenure"

Tenured dream:

[Martiniano Etchart @martinianoet]

The Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Student Organization at @UWMadison is happy to announce the call for submissions for our 18th Annual SLA Student Symposium next Spring 2025! Please, send your proposals by January 24, 2025. More info here: https://t.co/1Twe6iulGI

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The PhD life (before and after getting the degree)

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Ever feeling like that when you're doing your conference presentations?

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Edward Gibson (@LanguageMIT), a linguist and psychologist at MIT, heading the MIT Language Lab. We talk all about the human language: syntax, grammar, structure, theories of language, evolution of language, how it reflects culture, and of course LLMs, both their amazing power and their limitations.

It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:13 - Human language
5:19 - Generalizations in language
11:06 - Dependency grammar
21:05 - Morphology
29:40 - Evolution of languages
33:00 - Noam Chomsky
1:17:06 - Thinking and language
1:30:36 - LLMs
1:43:35 - Center embedding
2:10:02 - Learning a new language
2:13:54 - Nature vs nurture
2:20:30 - Culture and language
2:34:58 - Universal language
2:39:21 - Language translation
2:42:36 - Animal communication

[Gary Lupyan @glupyan]

#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! https://t.co/Vw13B7lbSI
@EvolangConf
@CulturalEvolSoc
@cogsci_soc
@Durham_DCERC
@MPI_NL
@UoE_CLE

[Natsuko Shintani @natsukonz]

Multilingualism and native speakerism in academic journals’ language policies: Exploring a potential power of applied linguistics journals in promoting equitable publishing practices https://t.co/qmfcFJJVSD

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

A PhD

[Elaine Francis @ejfranci2]

My PhD student Vanessa is looking for advanced L2 Mandarin learners (L1 English) to participate in an experiment over Zoom. She got enough heritage speakers already and now looking for L2 learners with no early exposure to Mandarin. Thanks for reposting! https://t.co/zHKvDoxIBb

[Jennifer Polk, PhD (she, her) @FromPhDtoLife]

You hate online conferences because

1. You hate conferences. The actual conference parts are boring.

And academics get away with boring conferences because people like the other stuff.

2. There's no travel, no having dinner with friends. Those are the parts of conferences you like.

The problem isn't, therefore, online conferences.

It's folks not putting in the work of creating actually fun and generative etc. events. This was never a priority for on-site events because you didn't have to care to sell tickets. But you need to do it online or else the whole thing is boring.

The problem isn't Zoom.

It's hosts who refuse to put in the work of learning how the platform works, and ensuring all participants have what they need for success, technology-wise.

The problem isn't that it's online.

It's that organizers don't build in ways to connect participants beyond formal sessions. They don't usually even think about non-presenters as participants at all, because there's not much meaningful participating for them to do. This is no fun and it's not inviting.

Online conferences are the future and we do actually have the tools to make them awesome. But it's going to take a lot more time and money (to pay for expert help) than most seem to want to spend.

[Applied Linguistics @AAALinks]

AAAL 2024 Proposal Notifications are live! Check your status here: https://t.co/ddZZslMgjm
#AAAL2024

[EuroSLA @EuroSLA]

The 5th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2024) will be held from 23rd – 24th May 2024 at Swansea University, UK. All information on the conference website https://t.co/LTJN7rhX9E

[ILLS at UIUC @ILLSatUIUC]

Call for Papers is OUT for ILLS16 🎊
Abstracts should have a maximum of 1 page and can be submitted through EasyAbs until November 27. More details about the conference & submission guidelines here: https://t.co/wKT8G4tUma

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

This reads like a parody of how a physicist would approach language

[Martin Haspelmath @haspelmath]

Some of the slides and handouts from the LSA Linguistic Institute 2023 (UMass, Amherst) are now available online (including the materials of the four-week course that I taught): https://t.co/eyfNn7SYhK