Words In The World

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[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

Thank you, everybody who attended the Words in the World Conference 2023! We were delighted to learn from you!

[Samantha-Kaye Johnston @IAMSAMKJ]

Delighted to share our paper on #criticalthinking development in 870 students at 21 schools across 3 countries. Thanks to @iborganization for funding & @TNHopfenbeck @DrJoshMcGrane & Mireia for the collaboration. Open access to full paper here: https://t.co/eKEElXmq63

[Reading Lab @mac_readinglab]

Mongolian is the only language in the world written from top to bottom, making it critical for studying universal reading behaviour. Yaqian Bao @Borogjoon_ presents "Perceptual Span in Mongolian Text Reading" at @wordsmlg Words in the World International Conference #WOW2023

[Reading Lab @mac_readinglab]

Laura Schwalm presents "Cross-Linguistic Variability in Eye-Movement Control: Comparing Landing Positions of Regressive and Progressive Saccades" @wordsmlg #WOW2023, a collaboration between @McMasterU's Reading Lab and @Uni_Wuppertal

[Gözde Mercan @DrGozdeMercan]

Exciting news! With our @UofT students, we are showcasing our psycholinguistic research project 📚 on "foreign-origin words and their native equivalents in the Turkish Lexicon"🇹🇷 as a poster at the @wordsmlg Words in the World🌎Internatinal Conference on Dec 2nd, 13:10. @se_ergut

[Reading Lab @mac_readinglab]

Nadia Lana @nadia_lana3 presents "Context positivity facilitates L2 word learning: An eye tracking study" @wordsmlg at the Words in the World International Conference #WOW2023

[Antonio Iniesta @ant_iniesta]

Today we were presenting "Leveraging Social Network Data to Ground Multilingual Background Measures: Validating Entropy" at the Words in the World International Conference #WOW2023 @wordsmlg @mjieyang @debra_titone

[ComSciCon @ComSciCon]

Interested in #SciComm?

Read @UA_magazine article by @nadia_lana3 covering the eventful 3 day #ComSciCon23 conference that took place in Boston, MA earlier this year, and learn how you can get involved:

https://t.co/9jaSRSrvEM

[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

Job Announcement: Postdoctoral position in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of lexical processing. Learn more: https://t.co/IY7IxovYXY

[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

Tomorrow, Oct. 14, is the last day to submit your work for the Words in the World 2023 conference! We are looking forward to hosting! For more information, visit the conference site: https://t.co/yBZJrwZyJZ

[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

WOW2023: The beginning of term is always busy, and we've had some requests for just a bit more time -- so we decided to extended the deadline for abstracts to October 14th! We'd love to learn more about your research into language and the mind/brain! https://t.co/yBZJrwZyJZ

[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

ICYMI: Words in the World 2023, our online conference, will be held Dec. 1-2! If you're doing research on language in the mind/brain, we want to hear about it! Abstract submissions are open. Learn more here: https://t.co/yBZJrwZyJZ

[Words In The World @wordsmlg]

Our next online Words in the World Conference will be held Dec. 1-2, 2023! We welcome research on the representation & processing of language in the mind/brain (psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, & computational). Visit us to learn more: https://t.co/yBZJrwZyJZ

[McMaster Libraries @maclibraries]

The Narratives of War discussion panel hosted by ARiEAL is now available on YouTube. Hear from the team of researchers who helped bring together more than 1000 first-hand accounts from individuals directly affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

🔗 https://t.co/8GQ9DVMw44

[McMaster Libraries @maclibraries]

Register for this free event happening tomorrow: https://t.co/Pj0c95G0kV

[McMaster Media @McMasterMedia]

.@ARiEAL_Research collected 1,500 testimonies from Ukrainian civilians for a virtual exhibit.
“These are authentic stories from real people that show the full scope, severity and conditions of what they have experienced,” says Victor Kuperman.
@McMasterHum
https://t.co/PxJ7aiDLEV

[Reading Lab @mac_readinglab]

Join us on June 29, 2023 at David Braley Auditorium to learn about Narratives of War (NoW), a collection of 1500+ real-time testimonies written by Ukrainian citizens that tells the unfolding stories of the war, suffering, resilience, and hope #StandWithUkraineNOW 🇺🇦

[LINGUIST List @linguistlist]

Summer Schools, STEP2023 - Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics / Canada: The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop in current issues… https://t.co/vKQ6v7WDHZ

[Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm]

🗣First call for papers for [motʰ], the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop!

Abstracts invited related to phonetics, phonology, or their interfaces with each other/with morphosyntax.

@McMasterU @ARiEAL_Research @mcmasterhum

https://t.co/R00cPusmU6

[Applied Linguistics @BrockUDALS]

Brock App/Ling Professor Gary Libben spoke about jargon on CBC Radio's The Sunday Magazine recently. Have a listen. Dec. 11: We love it, we hate it, we legislate it: Word Processing 'bureaucratese'
https://t.co/RnN0xBVtLM
@BrockUFOSS #appliedlinguistics