Anita Slonimska
@anitaslonimska.bsky.social
Postdoc at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Multimodality, Pragmatics, Language Evolution
Multimodality, Pragmatics, Language Evolution
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Showing how: Adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children. New paper by Emanuela Campisi, @anitaslonimska.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813
Showing how: adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children
Abstract. Human communication often involves spontaneous teaching, a capacity central to cultural evolution, in which representational gestures (e.g. showi
doi.org
May 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Showing how: Adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children. New paper by Emanuela Campisi, @anitaslonimska.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813
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Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adult. Final version by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social , @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults
According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...
doi.org
April 29, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adult. Final version by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social , @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464
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Excited to co-teach Multimodal Minds this June with @anitaslonimska.bsky.social! See below for more information.
www.ru.nl/en/education...
www.ru.nl/en/education...
Multimodal Minds: Language, Gesture & Sign for Human and Non-Human Interaction | Radboud University
In this summer course, you'll explore how speech, gesture, and sign languages shape meaning and cognition in interaction.
www.ru.nl
March 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Excited to co-teach Multimodal Minds this June with @anitaslonimska.bsky.social! See below for more information.
www.ru.nl/en/education...
www.ru.nl/en/education...
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📣📣📣Multimodal Relevance : Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults by gazing at their gestures . New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
February 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
📣📣📣Multimodal Relevance : Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults by gazing at their gestures . New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Reposted by Anita Slonimska
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults. New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults
According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...
www.tandfonline.com
February 25, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults. New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
New open-access paper with @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults
According to relevance theory, communication relies on speakers’ ability to signal relevant information, which addressees use to infer meaning efficiently. Most research within the relevance theore...
www.tandfonline.com
February 25, 2026 at 10:51 AM
New open-access paper with @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We extend relevance theory to a multimodal view of language, demonstrating that speakers explicitly highlight iconic gestures as communicatively relevant in knowledge transmission context
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJb...
February 4, 2026 at 10:26 AM
You can read the full chapter here: Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages | Max Planck Institute share.google/rzwFU9EpdXJb...
Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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February 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Happy to share that my chapter on Iconicity in simultaneous constructions in sign languages is finally out! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
July 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🌟The closing session of #ISGS2025 has officially concluded—thank you to all our speakers, presenters and attendees!
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
See you at ISGS11 in Hong Kong 🌟
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Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morpholo...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
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Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!
Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication. New publication by Kekes-Szabo, @shariceclough.bsky.social, Brown-Schmidt & Duff. doi.org/10.1044/2025....
Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication
Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint is to advocate for increased study of common
ground and audience design processes in multiparty communicat...
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Excited to share this viewpoint on why studying group audience design processes in TBI can lead to new clinical and scientific insights about communication difficulties after brain injury. Will be followed up soon w/ empirical papers examining adaptation across speech, gesture, and gaze modalities!
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New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
May 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.
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⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching!
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
⏰ The deadline for EARLY BIRD registration for #ISGS2025 is approaching!
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
🗓️Register by May 31st to get the best rate for registration.
For more information & to register: isgs10.nl/registration
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Perfectly (but unintentionally) timed with ASL Signbank moving their site, I finished of a complete re-write of the {signglossR} #RStats package 👋🏻🤟🏻
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
May 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Perfectly (but unintentionally) timed with ASL Signbank moving their site, I finished of a complete re-write of the {signglossR} #RStats package 👋🏻🤟🏻
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
Wrappers and pipelines to process images and videos for visual sign language examples in research and teaching✌🏻🎞📷
github.com/borstell/sig...
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If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
GitHub - ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial
Contribute to ShoAkamine/whisperx_tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If anyone is interested in using WhisperX to transcribe speech, this tutorial is for you!! In this tutorial, I provide an easy-to-use pipeline where you will get a time-aligned transcript as a Praat TextGrid file, a TSV file, and a subtitle file🙌
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
github.com/ShoAkamine/w...
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New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
April 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...
Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it
#academicsky
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Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
Tracking neural correlates of contextualized meanings with representational similarity analysis
Although it is uncontroversial that word meanings shift depending on their context, our understanding of contextualized lexical meaning remains poor. How is a contextualized semantic space organized? ...
tinyurl.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thrilled to share Aline-Priscillia Messi’s first PhD paper on how context shapes meaning in the brain! Disambiguated noun/verb stems are neurally organized by syntactic category and context-driven item-specific semantics, not by homonymy or polysemy. @sfnjournals.bsky.social tinyurl.com/59amm8j7
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✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out!
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
ISGS10 - Registration
Registration
www.isgs10.nl
March 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
✉️ Decision letters for #ISGS2025 are out!
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
We are looking forward to the symposia, talks and posters presenting the the latest multimodal language research in Nijmegen!
🔎For information about conference registration: www.isgs10.nl/registration
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I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers!
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
December 14, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I made a starter pack of Iconicity Researchers!
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
Please message me if you’d like to be added, or have suggestions for anyone else who should be added!
go.bsky.app/C2F5iKC
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✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 5:40 AM
✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.
What about signed languages?
ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
Reposted by Anita Slonimska
A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)
OSF
doi.org
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A new preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... about one paradox in word order #typology. On the one hand, SOV has longer dependency distances and therefore higher processing costs than SVO (@rferrericancho.bsky.social, H.Liu, Futrell et al...)
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December 20, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
ISGS10 - Abstract Submission
Abstract Submission
www.isgs10.nl
January 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📢DEADLINE EXTENSION!!!
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
🗓️ Submission deadline for #ISGS2025 has been extended to January 31, 2025
🔎 For submission guidelines, see: www.isgs10.nl/abstract-sub...
@mpi-nl.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social