I am often the only Macedonian person people have met. The most common question I get is: “what language do people speak there?”. There isn’t much about the language in English and online. For a linguistics course, I got to construct a so called “language profile”, and with it the chance to add a small part of mine out there for others to discover.

How to extend a paper reproduction project with your own experiments, improvements and reflections? I wrote more about our recent experience, what made it enjoyable instead of stressful and how we managed to get meaningful results at the end despite the computational and time constraints.

What is a paper reproduction project, and how to successfully see one through? I go through a recent experience I gathered this semester and discuss what helped the most. Some of these points are rooted in using modern software development practices when dealing with research projects/code.

In the essay, I outlined the historical and current research on N400 and P600, their various interpretations, the models of language comprehension that neuroscientists build upon examining their manifestations, and the accompanying neural correlates more newly added to the models.

As part of a course focusing on psycholinguistics and the neuroscience of language, I wrote a scientific essay on the intersection of language and trauma. Specifically, in the paper, I explore how an unburdened language from one's language repertoire can be a tool for coping with the post-traumatic, in a therapeutical setting or the everyday.

My first week of university just ended. The biggest chunk went to our mandatory course called “Advanced Natural Language Processing”. We went through a lot of material around regular expressions and some basic data tools with Python. The most interesting part of my week was the introduction and thinking about “language tasks”. There is very little information if you google the term, so I needed to dig to understand it.

I place my teacup on the chair pushed close to the sofa, an improvised sturdy space for staking papers, devices and infinitely more cups I let cool down without touching. I am spending my precious few hours while my 2-year-old is at daycare to jumpstart my upcoming university semester. The media speaks about the incoming lockdown. The washing machine is tumbling masks. In the room next door, my husband is typing on his keyboard.