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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Afiyet olsun (guten Appetit)!

Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Exciting! Call for Papers for Heritage Language Syntax 6 is now open. The conference will be held on November 6-7, 2025 at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. Find more details here: hls.bogazici.edu.tr/heritage-lan...

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Heritage Language Syntax 6 (November 6-7, 2025) | Heritage Language Syntax 6<br>Istanbul, November 6-7, 2025

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Radim Lacina @radlacina.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A cool workshop "Developing New Languages in Migration Contexts" organised at my new uni by our colleages at the Romance Languages Dept! A part of the recently funded large linguistics project LangInLife! Send your abstracts! romanistika.phil.muni.cz/aktuality/ca...

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

One of my students asked if he can write his term paper doing a linguistic analysis about the use of multilingualism in this song and I am so excited/happy/thrilled! 🥳 youtu.be/co4PVbewN9A

Screenshot of the Spotify page for the song Mona Lisa Motion by Zah1de

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Indranil Dutta @academicmargin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

#linguistics folks, do submit your 2-page Expression of Interests by 31st May. This is an exciting opportunity! Be a part of impactful #bigteamscience in #linguistics.

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’m thrilled to announce that I joined @unicologne.bsky.social this summer semester as deputy professor and as a member of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language! Along exciting research projects, I’ll be teaching fun courses on intro linguistics, heritage languages & multilingual German acquisition 🥳

Universitätsstraße, lowered roadway at the University of Cologne. In the background, the main entrance to the university's main building

Attribution: Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Want to get published? Join our virtual workshop on March 18, 5-6 PM (ET) to learn how to navigate academic publishing. Speakers Prof. David Bowie & Dr. Aylin Coskun Kunduz will cover manuscript prep, peer review, and common challenges. Register now: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Für alle im #Lehramt #Deutsch 👇 Wie wäre es mit einer Sommerschule in Berlin? Das Programm sieht mega aus ✨️ #BLinguistik #FediLZ

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Die neue Folge von Facts & Feelings (Deutschlandfunk Nova) ist draußen! 🎙️ Es geht um Mehrsprachigkeit in der Familie und das Wiedererlernen von Herkunftssprachen. Ich hatte die Freude, einen kleinen Beitrag dazu leisten zu können. Hört gerne rein: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/kult...

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Verbundenheit mit den Eltern durch gemeinsame Sprache

Linhs Vater ist Vietnamese. Seine Sprache hat Linh als Kind aber nicht gelernt. Das belastet sie und deshalb lernt sie gerade Vietnamesisch.

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Alt-text: Three workshop organizers posing in front of a screen that shows the title slide of the workshop.

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@clartoshka.bsky.social, Kateryna Iefremenko, and I just wrapped up hosting our workshop at #DGfS2025! Huge thanks to all participants for making our AG 13 'Heritage speakers learning languages' a success! 😊 And stay tuned—we’re working on a special issue featuring contributions from the workshop!

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Die Wissenschaft schafft unschätzbar wertvolle Ressourcen, werbefrei, kostenlos, allgemeinnützig. Hier stelle ich einige aus den Sprachwissenschaften vor. 1. Das DWDS: Viel mehr als ein digitales Wörterbuch. (BBAW)

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DWDS − Der deutsche Wortschatz von 1600 bis heute.

DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Till Woerfel @woerfel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Austausch und (kostenlose) Workshops in #Arabisch, #Deutsch, #Russisch u #Türkisch zu herkunftssprachlichem Unterricht. 👉Bitte an interessierte #Lehrkräfte des #HSU weitergeben #BlueLZ

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Excited to discuss "Speech and the City" (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) with Yaron Matras at @zasberlin.bsky.social sky.social on Feb 20, 15:00 CET! 📖🌍 We'll explore multilingualism, decoloniality & the civic university. Join us in Berlin or online: www.leibniz-zas.de/de/das-zas/v...

Book cover of "Speech and the City" by Yaron Matras

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Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

JOB ALERT! Come work with me! 34-Month Postdoc Position here at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in my project "Paths to Polysemy" Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas... Please repost & share widely!

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Antonio Machicao y Priemer @myp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#PhD fellowships in the @sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy: Do you want to work for 1 year in a register related project in Berlin? The fellowship can be used to carry out a self-contained research project on the topic of the SFB . Call: linguistlist.org/issues/36/239/ Please share! #linguistics

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LINGUIST List 36.239 Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

5/ This paper isn’t just about data—it’s a reflection on how far HL research has come and where it should go. 🌍 Increasing diversity in languages, contexts, & methods is essential for the field’s growth. Explore our findings here: doi.org/10.1163/1550...

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Sentiments Towards Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

Abstract Research on heritage languages has grown in both volume and scale over the last 30 years. More recently, researchers have begun observing shifts in the ways in which heritage languages and th...

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

4/ The expert survey also revealed an embrace of HLs as unique native language varieties with a focus on individual variation & inclusive definitions. Advanced psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics methods are driving the field forward. 🧠

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

3/ Our study highlights trends in subfields, languages, and methodologies. Spanish, Korean, and Chinese dominate HL research, while Turkish & syntax studies show negative sentiments—a key area for developments. 🌐

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

2/ HL research has grown exponentially in 30 years. Using sentiment analysis & expert insights, we trace the evolution of how HLs & their speakers are portrayed—from early deficit framings to recognizing HLs as valuable linguistic systems. Read here: doi.org/10.1163/1550... 💡

Articles and their tagged sentiments over time. Sentiment categories are encoded by colors: blue = neutral, red = negative, green = positive

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

1/ Thrilled to share our new paper, authored by @clartoshka.bsky.social and me! 🎉 We conducted the largest assessment of heritage language (HL) research, analyzing over 1,000 articles & 80 expert surveys. Dive in with us as we explore key shifts in the field. 👇

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#SaveBrainCity Protest against budget cuts in education and culture in Berlin!

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Happy to talk and introduce you to the Turkish ling landscape. Send me an email if you want :)

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Excited for #2023BTSCON next week! Check out their schedule and if you are interested in ManyLanguages, the Big Team Science organisation that will tackle questions about the Language Science in BTS style, join us Tuesday 1pm UTC #langsci #linguistics #metasci bigteamscienceconference.github.io

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Big Team Science Conference

Registration is open! View the Conference Program The second annual BTSCON will be held virtually via Zoom October 23-25, 2023 (10:00 - 21:00 UTC). The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to ...

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Lena Völkening @lenavoelkening.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I proudly present: In diesem Semester tragen im "Forum Linguistik" an der Universität Bonn @onurunki.bsky.social zu Heritage-Sprachen und @tokehoff.bsky.social zur Laienlinguistik über Zoom vor. Gäste sind herzlich willkommen! Den Zugangs-Link gibt's auf Anfrage per Mail (s. Flyer).

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Timo B. Roettger @timoroettger.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

This is exactly the paper I need right now as we are about to enter a large collaborative writing process. @onurunki.bsky.social @faytak.bsky.social Worth having a look maybe?

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Join Elisa Mattiauda (UCL) and me at the MAIN Text & Tea meeting on 12 October (14-16 CET) (sites.google.com/view/text-tea/…) for a talk on "Narrative comprehension in adults with Down syndrome: Understanding inferencing through MAIN" Zoom on website; abstract up soon. See you there 👋

A screenshot for the advertisement of our talk on "Narrative comprehension in adults with Down syndrome: Understanding inferencing through MAIN" via https://sites.google.com/view/text-tea/meetings

Shows a picture of the presenters and the agenda for the meeting

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Looks amazing! 😋 The ALT captions already provide the ingredients, right? I’ll try it out!

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

I love that the place where we volunteer to feed the animals regularly now has these plates that illustrate and explain various thematically fitting words from German Sign Language (DGS). Also, meet Lotta and Lily, and our friendly hens, rooster and peacocks.🐖🐓🦚

A picture of a wooden wall with a plate in the center. the plate explains the word “chaos” in German Sign Language

A picture of a plate that explains the German for “thank you” in German Sign Language

A picture of a door and a cage. on the left is a plate that explains the word for “bird” in German Sign Language

A picture of a fence. on the right is a plate that explains the word for “pig” in German Sign Language

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Onur Özsoy @onurunki.bsky.social · 25/08/2023

Concluding this amazing summer school (sfb1287.uni-potsdam.de/summer-school-2023/) with a poster session today. I'll be presenting work from our recent paper Özsoy and Blum (2023): doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000267… Find the poster, data, and code in our OSF project: osf.io/6zcxu/

A poster by Onur Özsoy and Frederic Blum for the UMLV summer school. The poster is titled "A heritage speaker by any other name: Variation in speech fluency through multilevel Bayesian Regression". The key conclusion on the top of the poster says "Are we looking in the right place, when we try to compare groups to each other, especially different mono- and bilingual speaker groups? Probably not. We should look at variation!"
More accessible PDF version and details at https://osf.io/6zcxu/

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