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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

When planning began, it was hard to imagine exactly how it would all come together — but thanks to this team and to all of you who attended, everything ran smoothly. We hope everyone left with insightful knowledge, lovely friendships, and unforgettable memories from Oregon 🫶🏻

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We also had 25 amazing volunteers whose help made everything possible, though I can’t list them all here. Special thanks go to Linda Smith, for handling much of the administrative work, and a big shout-out to Volya Kapatsinski, Kaori Idemaru, and Spike Gildea for all the behind-the-scenes work 😎

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We began organizing in the spring of 2024, and the Institute has truly been a team effort. Even though some couldn’t attend, our PhD students contributed from early on: Dakota Whisler worked on merch design and initial social media, and Nadia Clement designed the Institute poster 🤩

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Here’s our last Interview Spotlight featuring Jurriaan Wiegertjes, a PhD student in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey! ✨ Check out what he’s working on and hear about his experience at the Institute! (one more in the thread)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

(continued thread) ✍️ Writing Systems and their Use – Dimitrios Melts 🗣 Sociolinguistic Perception – @charlottevaughn.bsky.social & @abbyjwalker.bsky.social It was so lovely to see great linguists at the Institute in Eugene✨ See you again! #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hope you all made it home safe! 🤩 Saying goodbye was bittersweet, but we know this isn’t the end - we'll see again! Here’s are the last snapshots of the Institute: 👐 The Linguistics of Sign Languages – @cocchino.bsky.social & @ryanlepic.bsky.social 💻 Computational Semantic Typology – Terry Regier

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Meet today’s Interview Spotlight: Miracle Oppong Peprah ✨ She’s a PhD student at INALCO and is affiliated with CNRS in France. Check out what she's working on and hear about her experience at the Institute! (more in the thread)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This event is funded by the Division of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon. (graduatestudies.uoregon.edu)

graduatestudies.uoregon.edu

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We had the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) last Thursday! 😎 Thanks to all our presenters and everyone who came to support them, and a big round of applause to our winners! 👏 1st Place: Jordan (JC) Crowley 2nd Place: Miracle Oppong Peprah 3rd Place: Ming Liu

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Carolina Amador-Moreno @linguistonbike.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

And so our course @uoregon.bsky.social has come to an end. Thanks to all our wonderful students @lsa2025uo.bsky.social It's been fun to teach #HistoricalSociolinguistics with Mark Lauersdorf #NARNiHS, and we've been lucky to have such brilliant audience. Don't forget to Use All the Data!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

✨ We were glad to host Marianne Mithun (Hale Professor | UCSB) for our last forum lecture on “From Prosody toward Explanation?” Thanks to everyone who came! #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This event is funded by the Division of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon. (graduatestudies.uoregon.edu)

graduatestudies.uoregon.edu

Division of Graduate Studies | University of Oregon

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today’s Interview Spotlight features Peter Nyhuis, a postdoc in the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey! ✨ Check out what he’s working on and his experience at the Institute!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Merch is on sale! 🤩 If you’ve been thinking about grabbing more, it's your last chance!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Come support our students presenting their insightful work at the 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition! 🥹 🗓️ Thursday, August 8 🕕 6–8 pm 📍 Straub 145

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

✨ Honorable Mentions: · Sunyoung Park – Investigating the Discourse Processing of Korean Speech Styles by Korean-English Bilinguals · Hongkang Wang – Only with Short Intervals Does the Vertical Advantage Emerge — A Replication of Boroditsky (2001) #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🎉 We had a wonderful poster session last Thursday! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and checked out the amazing presentations, and a big round of applause to our winners! 👏 1st Place: Wangqian Zhou 2nd Place: Jordan (JC) Crowley 3rd Place: John Prado (more in the thread!)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Come chat with Anna Marie Trester, a career linguist, about all the ways you can use a linguistics degree in academia and in industry ☕️ 📅 Aug 6, 1–2 pm 📍 Agate 100 (1787 Agate St) Anna Marie Trester: www.boisestate.edu/linguistics/... Career Linguist: careerlinguist.com/dr-anna-mari...

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

We had a fantastic Forum Lecture with Sonia Cristofaro (Collitz Professor | Sorbonne University)! ✨ She gave an insightful talk titled “What You See Is Not What You Get: The Diachronic Making of Implicational Universals” #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Last Forum Lecture of the Institute! Join us this Wednesday (August 6) for the talk by Marianne Mithun (Hale Professor, UCSB). 👩‍🏫 “From Prosody toward Explanation?” 🕕 Aug 6th, 6–7 PM 📍 STB 156

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

(and here’s a duck video that wasn't included in the first thread! 🦆🫶🏻)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🎶 Prosodic Development Across Languages – Aoju Chen 🌲 Language Typology and Grammatical Evolution – Sonia Cristofaro 🧠 Cognitive Mechanisms of Language Change – Volya Kapatsinski 🔤 The Message Shapes Phonology – Kathleen Currie Hall & Andrew Wedel #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

One more week to go! 🥹 Hope you enjoy the last weekend! 🗣️ Information Structure in Interaction, Grammar, and Typology – Pavel Ozerov 🌍 Lexical Typology and Universals of Word Meaning – @thgeorgakopoulos.bsky.social & Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm 📖 Linguistics and Reading Reform – Mark Seidenberg

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Today's Interview Spotlight features Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, who’s teaching "Information Theory Tools for Language Research" in both terms at the Institute!✨ (more in the thread!)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

📖 Acquisition of Variation – Naomi Shin 🌍 Language Contact in Language Shift Ecologies – Rosa Vallejos-Yopán 🗺️ Papuan Languages – Don Daniels 🎤 Speech Accommodation, Convergence, and Imitation – Cynthia Clopper #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It’s not easy to stay energized after four weeks of the Institute - but classes are still going strong! 💪📚 📚 Historical Sociolinguistics – @linguistonbike.bsky.social & Mark Richard Lauersdorf 🧠 Neurolinguistic Methods – @rachelawiselure.bsky.social 👅 Tongue Movements and Phonology – Jeff Mielke

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Today's Interview Spotlight features Sam Corbin (@samcorbin.bsky.social ), a Crossword Columnist at the New York Times! 😎 Check out her experience at the Institute!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Drop by Straub from 6 to 8pm to support your fellow linguists and check out the amazing research they’ve been working on!😎

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Join us tomorrow (July 30, Wed) for the forum lecture by Sonia Cristofaro (Collitz Professor, Sorbonne University): "What You See Is Not What You Get: The Diachronic Making of Implicational Universals" 🕕 6:00 - 7:00 PM 📍 STB 156 #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Check out what she’s working on and hear about her experience at the Institute! ✨

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Today's Interview Spotlight features Tilly Brooks (@tildenebrooks.bsky.social), a PhD student at Stanford & JD at Yale! 😎 (more in the thread!)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🗣️ Dynamics of Speech Production – Jason A. Shaw & Michael C. Stern 📊 Information Theory Tools for Language Research – Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín 📘 Grammar Writing – Linda Konnerth #LSA2025 #linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Term 2 began yesterday, and here are some snapshots from ongoing both-term courses!✨ 🔍 Advanced Syntactic Typology – Jesús Olguín Martínez & Phillip G. Rogers 🌀 Iconicity in Language – @bodowinter.bsky.social 🌐 Modeling Linguistic Networks – @roryturnbull.bsky.social

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Carolina Amador-Moreno @linguistonbike.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

First term of the Summer Institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social has come to an end 🎓. We look forward to the second term now! Great to be co-teaching #HistoricalSociolinguistics with Mark Lauersdorf, on behalf of #NARNiHS. It's been really good fun!

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

🍻 Beverages for Linguists is happening this Friday, July 25! Join us at Falling Sky Brewery for a casual evening hangout 🍺 🕕 6:00 PM 📍 Falling Sky Brewery – 1334 Oak Alley, Eugene, OR 97401 💸 Self-funded (pay your own tab)

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We had an engaging Forum Lecture with Kenny Smith @kennysmithed.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh)✨ He gave an insightful talk on “How Learning and Use Shape Evolving Linguistic Systems,” exploring how language evolves over time through learning and use.

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Shahorrible @shahorrible.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This was my first time at an lsa summer institute. It was a lot of fun. Will go again

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📊 Variationist Sociolinguistics: Testing Hypotheses about Language Change – Catherine Travis 📜 Diachronic Construction Grammar – Elena Smirnova 🤖 Linguistic Variation during Human-Computer Interaction – Georgia Zellou 🔧 Reconstructing Syntax – Jóhanna Barðal & Spike Gildea

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Term 1 came to a close yesterday, and we had to say goodbye to some wonderful folks 🥲 Here are some snapshots from Term 1–only classes! 🧠 Usage-Based Second Language Acquisition – Nick C. Ellis 🎙️ Language Production in the Lab and in the Wild – @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social

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Natalia Levshina @natalialevshina.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Just arrived in Eugene for Session 2 of the #LSA summer institute! The bar is set very high after an excellent first session, but I'm excited to contribute to another great run!

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We’re interviewing instructors and attendees at the LSA Summer Institute! 🥹 Today’s spotlight features Adele E. Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social , who taught “A Constructionist Approach to Grammar” in Term 1. (more in the thread!) #LSA2025 #Linguistics

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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Got questions? Feel free to DM us or email to LSAinstitute@uoregon.edu! Can't wait to see you in Eugene 🫶🏻

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