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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t have an answer but a colleague of mine showed me hallucinated (made up and undesirable) references that affected my work as it appeared at a conference presentation… No one is safe. And hey chat, wtf are Arne Van Hoey and Ma Ruiqi?

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@samueljbeer.bsky.social showed us the problems that even a single 107-word wordlist can bring , how to contextualize it, and how to recontextualize it. It’s worth it to halt and break your head for a while over a small detail like a punctuation mark. #dilegma3

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Plenair praatje van Jacqueline Klooster bij de #KZM (Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis) Ik heb haar boek over *Medusa* gelezen en vond het echt goed.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Back from Japan where I got to present at the Iconicity conference (#IcoLL) and the Hokkaido linguistics workshop (#Hokugen) You can read all about it here! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2026-0...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Day three of #IcoLL In the blink of an eye it’s already over. Here’s Pamela Perniss during the final keynote.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Day two of #IcoLL. It follows a great first day. Today is cat day in Japan because it’s ninini ににに, reminiscent of the onomatopoeia for cat cry nyaaa にゃー

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Opening of #IcoLL, *the* conference on iconicity in language and literature. Looking forward to sharing and learning much. And of course reconnecting with and meeting new scholars. And all of this in Nagoya, Japan! #ILL26 #IcoSem26 #IcoLL26

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I knew 8 of the 200+ editorial board members that mention linguistics, most of which probably have gotten stuck in this venus fly trap. At least we know they are "willing to uphold high editorial standards" and "[s]upport the ethos and vision of the journal" lol

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise. #AcademiaWrapped2025 www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-1...

Academia Wrapped 2025. It's here. Find out what 2025 had in store for me.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves. Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy! www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Some reflections about the AI hype cult. #linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Here is the reference: Ma Ruiming, Van Hoey Thomas, Szmrecsanyi Benedikt. Published online 2025:1-21. Isomorphism-inspired theorising about optionality and variation: no empirical support from English grammar. English Language and Linguistics. 2/3 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Remember how I was happy to announce two papers were available open access and online?! Well, I was wrong. There is another. On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet) 1/3

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Two papers of mine got published online this week. Celebratory blogpost with some random thoughts. I'll link the two papers (both open access) below www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0... Please read and cite <3

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I finished @zevhandel.bsky.social's Chinese characters across Asia (2025) and it was great. What I wrote on goodreads: This is a great and accessible introduction to how Chinese characters work, how it evolved, and how Korean/Japanese/Vietnamese/Zhuang made them work for themselves. 1/4

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Ngl wil het eigenlijk wel lezen maar terzelfdertijd wel geen lijstje om tussen te staan (Boudry, Pinker, Stevenson…) Anyway here is de inhoudstafel

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

📢 new publication alert Bilinguals’ advantages in executive function: Learning phonotactics and alternation Curious to see what those advantages are? Check out Sze et al. (2025), now out in Second Language Research. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (Sze, Yu, Do, Van Hoey & Yu 2025)

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This morning's reading: @kjhealy.co 2017 "fuck nuance", which I was led to by revisiting @bodowinter.bsky.social 2019. I find it 1 all very American and all to throw out nuance in favor of abstraction 2 necessary to do so to arrive at better and more robust theories What should we omit today? 🤣

screenshot of Fuck Nuance (Healy 2017) (r) and Sensory linguistics (Winter 2019) (l)

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Time for the kick off event of #LILI, the Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute Inaugural talk by @asliozyurek.bsky.social who reminded us how multimodal language actually is and how we may expect an increasing shift towards multimodal media in the future 🙌🙌 #LILI_KUL

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Got this really nice mail from my former student at HKU, Suya Liang, who just got accepted into a PhD program. #WinOfTheDay

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Periodic reminder that #Wales, #Wallonia, #Gaul ( #Gallia ) etc. all share the same #etymology And that horum omnium fortissimi sunt #Belgae 🇧🇪

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

One of the big culinary innovations in Belgium is that mainstream supermarkets now offer dumplings 🥟

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Happy to have presented about the #PrincipleOfOptionality and #ProbabilisticCueing at the #CogLing days #BeNeCLA at the UAntwerpen and indeed keep the conversation going about isomorphism vs/with variationist approaches (@benoitleclercq.bsky.social and Morin) Work together w/ Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Great seeing you guys again at the Cogling days in Antwerp Let’s keep the discussion going at the next conference 🫰 Attendance isn’t optional but ideas can be equivalent. Wait what?!

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

De studenten van Kring Babylon (T&L) hebben een aantal woorden van ratings voorzien 🤣 Zeer accuraat.

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Is the YouTube #AdBlockBan having an unexpected *positive* effect on my streaming habits? ✨✨

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Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 @simazhi.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Just talked about prototypicality effects for Mandarin #ABB words at this year's #IcoSem Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do. #IcoSem2023

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