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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Sometimes linguistic papers do go viral & end up getting a double page in another country’s oldest newspaper @berlingske.bsky.social - had a fabulous time in Copenhagen talking to a group of language enthusiasts about physiological reactions to “errors”. Thanks to Jane Hansen from sprogseminar.dk

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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

New paper out 🎺 introducing process-based measures of automatisation in L2 The elicited imitation task is widely used as a measure of automatized L2 knowledge. However, the scoring of the task relies exclusively on product-based measures (i.e., accuracy of L2 production).

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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Sad read, but fully in line with my recent experience, as applicant & as panel member: 1. Reviews vary wildly 2. Panels are inconsistent, essentially a lottery 3. High risk/high gain proposals are systematically sidelined 4. The cost is immense, we need a better way www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS

Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Curious about the opportunities that computational models offer the language sciences? Ready to get your hands dirty with code? Then sign up for our third and final FREE SummerSchool, this time on the beautiful Birmingham campus @artsatbham.bsky.social @lcuob.bsky.social @medallinguist.bsky.social

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hey, UK! Happy first National Linguistics Day! Proposals for NLD traditions: (a) Add language wonder to every conversation. (b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content. (c) Sing linguistics carols: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... (d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.

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Dagmar Divjak @dagmardivjak.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

This is how an #interdisciplinary team works: you use linguistics and statistics to prop up your experiments 🤓

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