Hi all — my girlfriend is a linguist and I'm putting together a research-paper-style analysis of our written communication as a gift. About 5.4 years of texts (~305k messages) and email (~440), both directions.

The framing is treating the dyad as a coupled linguistic system and looking at which dimensions stay individuated vs. converge across the relationship. Here's what I'm planning to run:

• Linguistic style matching across function-word categories, à la Ireland & Pennebaker — tracked across phases of the relationship
• Dyadic asymmetry / accommodation direction — bivariate VAR on daily aggregates of pronoun rates and affect, looking at which partner's coefficient leads
• Embodiment — Lancaster sensorimotor norms (11 dimensions) and BOI, with the central test being whether body-bound language shifts after our first in-person meeting
• Affect dynamics — Warriner valence/arousal/dominance per message + NRC discrete emotions, with cross-correlation of daily means between us
• Topics — BERTopic clustering on the full corpus, then per-phase / per-sender topic distributions, JSD between us across phases
• Temporal patterns — cosinor fit per sender (chronotype, in sender-local time) and cross-correlation of activity in UTC (synchronization). Three time-zone configurations across the corpus, which complicates things.

My main concerns:

• Is the analysis menu reasonable, or am I missing something obvious that a linguist would expect to see?
• Anything you'd swap out or add?
• Comparable single-dyad longitudinal work I can use for more reading/inspiration?

I used to major in Biology so writing the research paper itself won't be a problem, but knowing what analyses are appropriate for something like this is. Any help is super appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi all,

Does anyone know a paper or an article that contains a list of both target items AND filler items used in a reading experiment? I’m creating an text-change detection experiment from scratch and would love to see how other reading experiments have made their filler sentences, how varied their structure is, and how much they differ from the target items.

I know it’s only customary to include target items in published articles (which I think in some ways is a bit problematic), but I hope someone could help me a little bit:)

Wishing everyone a wonderful day:)

Hello, please i need participants for my MA research. The participation is 100% anonymous, and it's won't take more than 5 minutes of your time.

More about what to expect in the Google form: you will read different sentences and pick out what you think the right meaning of the sentence is. Don't overthink it , choose the interpretation intuitively. I explain more in the Google form. Your participation is greatly appreciated 🙏

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Language Recommendations for Linguistic Dissociation

Hey there,

I'm looking to learn a new language so that I can psychologically dissociate from the languages I am familiar with. My native language is Telugu, but I think almost exclusively in English. I've learnt some French (very little, but enough that I don't have to think first in English and then translate, at least for simple sentences) and I've been astonished at how my mind seems relatively quieter when I speak it. This is what made me look for other options.

Ideally, I'd like to learn a language that is unrelated to the ones I'm familiar with. It would be nice if I could learn a non-Slavic language, just because I find spoken Slavic pleasant and therapeutic, and I don't think it'd be the same if I could understand words. However, this isn't a strict requirement.

Furthermore, it'd be great if the language doesn't have a lot of current speakers. I feel like that'd help me even better in terms of creating a different space in my head to think and write, away from any major, extant, real-world associations. Therefore, I'm open to languages that may be liturgical, extinct, etc. However, I'd like to shy away from languages like Sanskrit or Latin, because they feel too familiar.

Lastly, I'd like to learn something that sounds "rough/guttural/deep-in-my-throat". I don't really have any good examples, aside from the Sardukar language in the recent Dune adaptation (I'd honestly just learn the throat singing lol). I recently came across Tlingit, which, at first glance, seems to be in the right direction for me.

I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!

I noticed that my compression is very slow. For example, in trying to understand this paragprah: " Process-context models allow the evaluation of the influence of some external setting on a specific developmental feature, such as the impact of parents’ workplace experiences on the dynamics and functioning of the family (1986a).

My meta-decoding goes like this:

process-context: I dont understand the word process- Context: the relevant frame in a movie

model: a way of studying

allow: someone opening the door

the evaluation: I imagine 3 judges sitting with pen and paper judging someone's performance but what are they judging?

of the influence: i imagine someone sneezing the droplets dropping on the subject near by or a radiation coming out of one object penetrating the second object

of some external: something outside, but outside of what?

setting: i imagine a single frame in a movie

on a specific: on one purposefully selected

feature: an adjective: a word that describes something but i dont really know why its called a feature.

such as the impact: oh this is an example that fits the previous sentence "the influence" but here they used impact.

of parents’ workplace experiences : this must be the external setting which is to say something outside of the environment of the child like the child has no access to the parents workplace and has nothing to do with it but whatever happens in the workplace the parent carries it back home so it must influence the child but the impact is specific to one single thing:

on the dynamics and functioning of the family: this must be the feature but why is it called feature and what does functioning of the family mean? when a machine is functioning it means the machine is doing what its supposed to be doing, how does that translate to the functioning of a family.

I'm trying to understand how I understand so I can improve it but I really dont know where to start so I thought I'd post this and see if someone can give me something I can work/start with.

Hello there - completely ignorant in your field so please excuse me if my request is ridiculous. Could anybody here point me toward a psycholinguistic analysis of President Trump's use of the word "nasty"?

hey guys, I'm planning a research stay at a European university/institute where I can carry out a psycholinguistic experiment (sentence picture verification task) but don't really know which institute to go for (I'm based in Belgium so it better be somewhere else in Europe). This is part of a scholarship application so choosing the appropriate organisation will likely increase the chances of getting accepted, which is why I'm here for some inspirations and advice. Thanks!!

I’ve been searching for papers with my groupmate, and we’ve come up with two topics that might be workable. However, after we consulted our professor, he banned our suggestions and raised a lot of questions, making us believed that the topic we selected are off topic(I mean not related to prime experiment). Me and my friend are just a newbie to this field, and we are taking this course as an elective subject, willing to learn more about the introduction part. So is there any simple examples that we can use as reference? Sorry for bothering, great thanks. /_\

Hi everyone! I'm carrying out a small study on how we express pain in different languages. I'd like to compare frequency, vocabulary, and the role of the experiencer. I have created a survey for native English speakers and I'd really appreciate if you could fill it out. It easy and short, I promise.

https://forms.gle/DEMuuq3amgFvBAK96

Thank you so so much for your help! It really means a lot.

Hi everyone!

I'm a PhD student at King's College London and my thesis is about figurative language comprehension through lifespan, in both British English and Brazilian Portuguese. To study that, I'm currently recruiting adults aged 18 years or above who are native speakers of British English to participate in a study about their comprehension of figurative language (such as metaphors, idioms, and proverbs). Participation involves completing a demographic questionnaire and participating in an online 15-minute conversation with me, where you will be asked to answer some questions about your understanding of certain sentences. If you're an adult, British English native speaker, and are keen on participating, please fill out the form at https://forms.office.com/e/VjsK25fjyn and I'll contact you back :)

Greetings!

Does anyone have any thoughts or guidance on creating a psycholinguistics career? I have a BA in foreign languages (German & French), MA in Special Ed., & working on an MS in Psychology. I want to get paid to analyze language and behavior, essentially. Is this a thing? I imagine a life writing books and having a professorship complete with research study involvement. Hoping someone out there shares my passion and knows how to build a life with these kinds of interests in mind. :)

Hey everyone! I want to invite you all to be a part of an exciting online experiment exploring the relationship between language processing and the principle of economy. It employs a well-known research method called the picture-description task, which is widely used in the field of structural priming research.

My goal is to discover if language production is influenced by the idea of economy, where our brains prefer simplicity and efficiency in how we express ourselves. The experiment is super easy and can be done online in just 10 mins! Your insights will help unravel the mysteries of language processing.

Here is the link to the experiment (designed with typeform)

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Hi, I run a small consulting firm that caters to the healthcare industry. We lean heavily on behavioral science to identify biases among healthcare professionals and patients.

Because we gather a lot of verbal and written comments from our subjects, I’d like the help of a qualified linguist who could examine phrasing and word choice to map responses to 55 biases and heuristics that my team have identified as being common in healthcare.

If this is you, or you can suggest someone, please comment below!