Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智
@simazhi.bsky.social
Linguist | Sinologist
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words @KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen
thomasvanhoey.com
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words @KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen
thomasvanhoey.com
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...
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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...
Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Some reflections about the AI hype cult.
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
May 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some reflections about the AI hype cult.
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
#linguistics #aicon #genai #aiacademia #aiuniversity
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
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...
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...
May 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
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...
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
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
May 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
On Friday we learned about our paper in English Language and Linguistics (next skeet)
1/3
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
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
April 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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
www.thomasvanhoey.com/posts/2025-0...
Please read and cite <3
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
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
April 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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
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
Ngl wil het eigenlijk wel lezen maar terzelfdertijd wel geen lijstje om tussen te staan (Boudry, Pinker, Stevenson…)
Anyway here is de inhoudstafel
Anyway here is de inhoudstafel
April 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Ngl wil het eigenlijk wel lezen maar terzelfdertijd wel geen lijstje om tussen te staan (Boudry, Pinker, Stevenson…)
Anyway here is de inhoudstafel
Anyway here is de inhoudstafel
📢 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)
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)
April 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 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)
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)
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? 🤣
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? 🤣
April 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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? 🤣
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? 🤣
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
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
March 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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
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
Got this really nice mail from my former student at HKU, Suya Liang, who just got accepted into a PhD program.
#WinOfTheDay
#WinOfTheDay
March 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Got this really nice mail from my former student at HKU, Suya Liang, who just got accepted into a PhD program.
#WinOfTheDay
#WinOfTheDay
One of the big culinary innovations in Belgium is that mainstream supermarkets now offer dumplings 🥟
January 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
One of the big culinary innovations in Belgium is that mainstream supermarkets now offer dumplings 🥟
Happy New Year 🎉🎊
January 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Happy New Year 🎉🎊
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
Work together w/ Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
December 14, 2024 at 7:20 AM
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
Work together w/ Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
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?!
Let’s keep the discussion going at the next conference 🫰
Attendance isn’t optional but ideas can be equivalent. Wait what?!
December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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?!
Let’s keep the discussion going at the next conference 🫰
Attendance isn’t optional but ideas can be equivalent. Wait what?!
De studenten van Kring Babylon (T&L) hebben een aantal woorden van ratings voorzien 🤣
Zeer accuraat.
Zeer accuraat.
December 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM
De studenten van Kring Babylon (T&L) hebben een aantal woorden van ratings voorzien 🤣
Zeer accuraat.
Zeer accuraat.
On what floor was that again?
November 16, 2024 at 8:42 PM
On what floor was that again?
Is the YouTube #AdBlockBan having an unexpected *positive* effect on my streaming habits? ✨✨
December 8, 2023 at 8:37 AM
Is the YouTube #AdBlockBan having an unexpected *positive* effect on my streaming habits? ✨✨
Just talked about prototypicality effects for Mandarin #ABB words at this year's #IcoSem
Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do.
#IcoSem2023
Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do.
#IcoSem2023
November 25, 2023 at 9:43 AM
Just talked about prototypicality effects for Mandarin #ABB words at this year's #IcoSem
Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do.
#IcoSem2023
Work with Xiaoyu Yu, Tungle Pan, and Youngah Do.
#IcoSem2023