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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Work on this started in spring 2023 - now it is finally published! :-) What a nano-GPT can (not) tell us about spoken language Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge and Evangs Mailoa International Journal of Corpus Linguistics DOI: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl... Rec. 01 Nov 2024 Acc. 20 Mar 2026 Pub.: 25 Sept 2026

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📚 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬: starts 14 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 2026- MOOC on 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬. ✅ Learn to 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝, 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞 digital text collections ✅ Develop practical skills to 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦. Details/𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫: lnkd.in/eqSRycRk

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Below is a graphic showing what is in the new 9.4 mil. word corpus of conversational US English (LANA) - quite a range of data! If you want to find out more, feel free to sign up to attend the launch of the dataset and enjoy a series of talks online on the 16th & 17th of September: lnkd.in/gzZKxPcM

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

IVACS 2026 in Malta was great - again! Some impressions: photos.app.goo.gl/h64YMZhFmPMv...

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IVACS_Malta_2026 · Jun 30 – Jul 3 📸

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

www.theprimemachine.net/punchuate/in... Punchuate is designed to support reading, listening, reviewing, and editing, particularly if you have been editing using dictation and you want to check text yourself without using AI.

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Punchuate

Punchuate is designed to support reading, listening, reviewing, and editing, particularly if you have been editing using dictation and you want to check text yourself without using AI.

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The entry "Lexical Priming" has now been published online as a stand-alone chapter in the prestigiousReference Collection in "Reference Collection in Social Sciences". www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

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Lexical Priming

The Lexical Priming Theory (LPT), backed by psychological and cognitive research, provides an explanation for why words (or clusters of words) colloca…

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Rob Sheppard's Elle: A Verse Novel is published by Broken Sleep Books on 29th November 2025. Details here, including a video indicating my initial writing process: Pages: My Verse Novel ELLE is excerpted in Shuddhashar 37: Surrealist Poetry edition: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-v...

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Broken Sleep Books November 2025 Launch

With readings from Robert Sheppard, Mohamed Hassan, Catherine Okoronkwo, Gareth Farmer, Joe Shooman, and Christopher Horton

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, Fri 2 May 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm (BST). Free. Registration closes on Wednesday 30 April. LLMs and Lexical Priming Theory Large-Language-Model Tools and the Theory of Lexical Priming: Where technology and human cognition meet and diverge- sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next/

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Next meeting | Corpus Research Group | Edge Hill University

Find more information about the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group's (EHU CRG) next meeting, and how you can attend.

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Issues in Applied Linguistics: Wed 26th February 13.00 GMT Title: ‘I ham Sorey that I ham Under the Nesesity Of troubling you for Sum Reliefe’. ‘Writing upwards’[i] in letters by the poor and desperate, c.1770-1840 Speaker: Professor Ivor Timmis, Leeds-Beckett University Access at this link below

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The next webinar in the tenth anniversary series of Issues in Applied Linguistics: Wed. 19th February 13.00 GMT Title: Authenticity in language learning materials: where are we now? Speaker: Dr Geraldine Mark Access at this link – no need to register! mic.ul.ie/mic-insights...

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'Issues in Applied Linguistics' Tenth Anniversary Webinar Series | Mary Immaculate College

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fancy studying in Indonesia? Or know someone who would like to go? Satya Wacana International Scholarship: university scholarships for international students. Full scholarships including plane tickets. www.mvp.gov.ba/HTML/PDFDoc/...

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. Final Call for registration (ends 05/12/2024) University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, December 10 ̶ 12, 2024 sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Please register here: registration.contio.fi/uef/Registra...

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Welcome to DRDHum 2024! - Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) 2024

The Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) conference aims to bring together researchers who have different areas of interest and expertise to discuss the themes of data compilation and man...

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers a free 8-week course on Corpus linguistics: Corpus MOOC. We start in one week's time on Monday 16 September. You can register at www.futurelearn.com/courses/corp... Best, Professor Vaclav Brezina

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Corpus Linguistics Analysis - Online Course - FutureLearn

Get a practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in the social sciences and humanities in this course from Lancaster University.

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Now open for registration. registration.contio.fi/uef/Registra...

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Digital Research Data and Human Sciences 2024 (DRDHum) | Ilmo

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

3rd Call for Papers & Workshop Proposals - extended deadline! (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. University of Eastern Finland sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Important dates Submission of oral presentations (T), posters (P) and workshops (W): by 12.04.2024

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism (ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH) Patricia García & Anna-Leena Toivanen (eds.) Monday, 18 March 2024 15:00 - 16:00 CET Zoom link: uef.zoom.us/j/67049428232 Meeting ID: 670 4942 8232

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

"This may simply point to the fact that we sometimes overrate the negative impact of being offended and underrate its positive value" Stefan Collini.

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024) Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus Submission: 15.3.2024 Acceptance of abstracts: 01.05.2022 Conference: 10.–12.12.2024 2nd CfP sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024...

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"Putin envied Navalny.People loved Aleksei. With his jokes, irony, superhero-like fearlessness and love for life, he led with charisma. People followed Aleksei because he was the kind of person you wanted to be friends with. People follow Mr. Putin because they fear him. Nadya Tolokonnikova

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uss2024/ UCREL NLP Summer School 2024 is a three-day immersion in the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at Lancaster University's cutting-edge InfoLab21 facilities from July 24th to 26th.

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Some of you might be interested in LancsLex, a new free online tool developed at Lancaster University for the analysis of English vocabulary. It is available at lancslex.lancs.ac.uk Based on Frequency Dictionary of British English (2024): cass.lancs.ac.uk/words-words-... Vaclav Brezina

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Michael TL Pace-Sigge @mtlps.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) 2024 Call for papers open until 15 March. sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Plenary speakers are: Professor Katherine Bode Professor Anna Foka Professor Michaela Mahlberg Professor Tony McEnery

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Welcome to DRDHum 2024! - Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) 2024

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