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#ccrss26 has come to an end. Thank you all for your participation.

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I'm wrapping up #ccrss26 with my own session, "Topic models in R".

Slide titled "Chronological Change" showing 70 small line graphs of topic probabilities over publication years (1970–2020). Each panel represents a different topic, with black data points and a blue trend line showing how its prevalence changes over time.

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The next session is "Corpus-based forensic authorship analysis" by Dana Roemling. #ccrss26

Zoom screenshot showing Dana Roemling presenting "Corpus-Based Forensic Authorship Analysis" at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School. The title slide is displayed alongside the speaker's video.

The first session this afternoon is "Corpus linguistics and law" by Dr Edward Clay. #ccrss26

Zoom screenshot of Dr Edward Clay delivering a session titled “Corpus Linguistics and Law”. The presentation slide fills most of the screen, with the presenter speaking in a video tile on the right.

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The final day of #ccrss26 has just kicked off. The first session today is "Towards a corpus linguistics of signed languages" by Prof. Adam Schembri.

Zoom screenshot of Professor Adam Schembri presenting a slide titled "An emerging field of sign language corpus linguistics". The slide summarises the development of sign language corpora and features the cover of the book Signed Language Corpora. The speaker appears in a video window on the right.

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The final session today is "Introduction to CQPweb" by Dr Florent Perek. #ccrss26

Zoom screenshot of Dr Florent Perek introducing CQPweb. The shared screen displays the CQPweb search interface for the British National Corpus (BNC), with the presenter visible in a video tile on the right.

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The first afternoon session on Day 3 is "Studying language change in online data" by Dr Matt Gee and Dr Emma Franklin. #ccrss26

Zoom screenshot of the session "Studying language change in online data" by Matt Gee and Emma Franklin. The title slide features Birmingham City University's campus, with both presenters visible in video windows on the right.

The final session today is "Introduction to corpus triangulation" by Dr Sofia Malamatidou. #ccrss26

Screenshot of an online presentation titled "Corpus Triangulation". The title slide is displayed on the left, while Dr Sofia Malamatidou appears on video on the right, speaking during the session.

"Introduction to Sketch Engine" by Dr Paul Thompson is underway. #ccrss26

Screenshot of Dr Paul Thompson's online presentation. A slide demonstrates regular-expression search-and-replace examples for editing Great Expectations and recommends BBEdit (Mac) and Notepad++ for batch text editing. The presenter appears in a small video window on the right.

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Up next, after another participant presentation session, is "Introduction to the tidyverse" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26

Screenshot of Prof. Bodo Winter's online session. A slide explains the components of a tidyverse command in R using the example tib <- sample_n(tib, 50), with labels for the tibble, assignment operator, function, and arguments, while the speaker appears on webcam beside the slide.

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The second day of #ccrss26 has just started. The first session is "Analysing Learner Language" by Dr Joyce Lim.

Screenshot of Dr Joyce Lim presenting online. The slide, titled “Interlanguage – not ‘broken’ English!”, explains the concept of learner interlanguage and includes a diagram showing the relationship between L1, interlanguage, and L2.

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The Sinclair Lecture has just started! This year, it is delivered by Professor Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University) and is titled "Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation". #ccrss26

Professor Andrew Kehoe stands at a lectern at the front of a lecture theatre as the opening slide of the 2026 Sinclair Lecture is projected on a large screen above him. The slide reads "Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation" and identifies him as Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Birmingham City University. The audience is out of frame.

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After a participant presentation session, the final session of the day is "Introduction to R" by Prof. Bodo Winter. #ccrss26

Screenshot of the Zoom session "Introduction to R" by Prof. Bodo Winter. The slide encourages a positive attitude to learning R, with the quote: "I have been writing R code for years, and every day I still write code that doesn't work!" by Hadley Wickham.

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The first session after lunch is "Using corpus data in psycholinguistics" by Dr Michal Laznicka. #ccrss26

Screenshot of a Zoom session at the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. The presentation slide is titled "Using corpus data in psycholinguistics" by Michal Lažnička (University of Birmingham / Charles University). The speaker is visible in a small video window on the right.

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The session "Interpreting concordance lines" by Prof. Susan Hunston was delivered this morning at #ccrss26.

Screenshot of a Zoom session titled "Interpreting Concordance Lines" by Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham). The presentation slide with the session title is shared on screen, while a small video tile on the right shows Prof. Hunston speaking.

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The very first session of #ccrss26 is "Introduction to corpus linguistics" by Dr Paul Thompson.

PowerPoint slide comparing the top ten collocates of "toxic" in the British National Corpus (1994) and the Oxford Corpus (2018). The comparison highlights a shift from predominantly chemical and environmental collocates to the inclusion of expressions such as toxic masculinity, toxic relationship, and toxic culture. The slide is shown in PowerPoint editing mode with a presenter video in the top-right corner.

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Corpus Linguistics Summer School has just begun! #ccrss26

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The third EuroSLA plenary talk being delivered by Emma Marsden (University of Oxford).

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Anna Pietruszewska (U of Lodz) is the winner of this year’s EuroSLA Junior Researcher LAB award for the most promising PhD project. Congratulations! 🎉

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The second EuroSLA 35 plenary: Vincent DeLuca

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

EuroSLA 35 officially kicks off with a plenary by Melissa Baese-Berk.

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A first at a EuroSLA: musical interlude, Luis Ribeiro & Caje Garcia

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

EuroSLA 35 pre-conference event is underway. This year’s Language Learning Roundtable focuses on research impact pathways.

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

👏🎉 Huge congratulations to Nick Ellis on receiving the EuroSLA Distinguished Scholar Award! A pioneer of usage-based approaches to language learning, Nick’s bridge-building across traditions has shaped the field and inspired generations of scholars over four decades. www.eurosla.org/eurosla-dist...

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Joining #CogSci2026 from Japan? 🇯🇵🤝🇧🇷 The CogSci Meetup 2026 in Hamamatsu is a two-day hybrid event connecting researchers in Japan with the main conference in Rio de Janeiro. 📍Hamamatsu, Japan 🗓️ July 23–24, 2026 Learn more and register at sites.google.com/view/cogsci-...

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CogSci Meetup Hamamatsu

Update information April 10, 2026 : Website launched and call for submissions begins.

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thank you! I’m really looking forward to speaking at APCLC 2026 in Toyama this September. The abstract submission is still open for those interested in corpus linguistics and related areas. #APCLC2026

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Registration for #ccrss26 closes this weekend. If you missed any of our session spotlights, you can explore the full thread below. More information and registration details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...

Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We are pleased to announce this year’s Sinclair Lecture by Professor Andrew Kehoe, titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”, on 6 July. The lecture is open to the public and will be livestreamed. Details and registration below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/track...

Screenshot of the University of Birmingham event page for the 2026 Annual Sinclair Lecture, titled “Tracking language use across time: 25 years of innovation”, by Professor Andrew Kehoe of Birmingham City University. The page includes the lecture title, event details, registration button, speaker biography, and a portrait photograph of Professor Kehoe.

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EuroSLA @eurosla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Best JESLA Paper Prize 2025 awarded to Brasolin & Bienati (2025), Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures. Congratulations! Part of the special collection Multiple views on phraseology in SLA. euroslajournal.org/articles/10....

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Phraseology meets information theory: Going beyond the bag-of-words approach in complexity measures | Journal of the European Second Language Association

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Over the coming days, we’ll be spotlighting sessions from this year’s Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#ccrss26, 6–9 July). Stay tuned and don’t miss your chance to join us! www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu...

birmingham.ac.uk

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026 - University of Birmingham

Open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their research.

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Dan Isbell @danielrisbell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Elen Le Foll published an interesting study on how (applied) linguists understand Open Science. I was involved in a collaborative and transparent peer review process for the article, with a reviewer report available here: works.hcommons.org/records/tfj1...

journals.publishing.umich.edu

“Well, Parts of Linguistics Is Open…”: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science

Broadly defined as the study of language, linguistics is a diverse field spanning many disciplines. Recent studies on the prevalence of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) in linguistics (e.g. Isbe...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 14/04/2026

Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research. Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (100%, E 13 TV-L)

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Andrea Nini @andreanini.com · 10/04/2026

After years in preprint, our paper is finally out! We introduce LambdaG, a simple new authorship verification method that matches complex neural approaches. This supports the theory of grammar as a behavioural biometric (like a signature or gait). www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nlp #llm #forensic

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Grammar as a behavioral biometric: using cognitively motivated grammar models for authorship verification - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Grammar as a behavioral biometric: using cognitively motivated grammar models for authorship verification

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Junya FUKUTA @fukuta.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

New paper out in Second Language Research! I propose a new model of implicit and explicit knowledge in SLA. The accepted version is open access — thread below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Laura Bailey @linguistlaura.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This looks really good! #linguistics

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I will be giving a class 'Towards a corpus linguistics of sign languages' - everyone is welcome.

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We will be organising the annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School from 6 to 9 July this year. The event will return in an entirely online format. Please see our website for details: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/corpu... #ccrss26

Screenshot of the University of Birmingham webpage for the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. It shows the event title, a banner image of students working at computers, dates (6–9 July 2026), online format, contact details, and a “Register for this event” button.

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Our new open-access paper is now published in BLC! Using a learner corpus, we examined whether factors influencing L2 learners’ choice between double-object (Sam gave Mary a book) and prepositional-object constructions (Sam gave a book to Mary) vary across proficiency levels. doi.org/10.1017/S136...

Title page and abstract of an open-access journal article on L2 learners’ use of English dative constructions, outlining a corpus-based study of proficiency effects on double-object vs prepositional-object choices.

Bar charts and scatterplots showing verb-specific distributions of double-object and prepositional-object constructions, and how these patterns vary across CEFR proficiency levels.

Six line graphs showing how learner proficiency interacts with linguistic predictors (e.g. length, animacy, pronominality, verb bias) to influence the probability of choosing the double-object construction.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/10/2025

Results of the replication are in! Chocolate is more desirable than poop: Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78] N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability. w/ @jamiecummins.bsky.social

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Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

That's a wrap on #ccrss25! Thanks to everyone who took part.