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Welcome to my website!
I am a cognitive-science linguist with a strong background in mathematics. I have been scientifically active in the following countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, and USA.
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Please CONTACT me at: manova.stela@gmail.com (default address)
manova.stela@proton.me (alternative address)
For inquiries related to Gauss:AI Global: manova@gaussaiglobal.com
My research interests include:
Language and cognition
Theoretical linguistics / (Large) Language models / NLP
Experimental linguistics / Psycholinguistics / (Foreign) language learning
Computational linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Statistics
Algorithms and data structures
Complexity measuring of linguistic analyses
Programming languages (Java, Python, C++, C, JavaScript, HTML, R, among others)
A recent picture of me in About me / Bio.
#1 in all categories in the linguistic archive LingBuzz!
Posted on May 1, #1 since May 21, last checked June 6, 2025.
May 2025
The special issue of Morphology on diminutives and the architecture of grammar Ümit Atlamaz (Boğaziçi University) and I are editing is scheduled to appear as issue 4 of 2025.
Three papers on LLMs among the most downloaded on LingBuzz.
New paper out: Modeling Language Without Language: A ChatGPT Lesson for Language Research*, https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008998
March 2025
The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language, edited by Olga Fischer, Kimi Akita & Pamela Perniss, has been sent to production, my contribution is chapter 27, The iconicity of affix order. You can access the text at: https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007270.
Nov - Dec 2024
Reviewing for the journal Linguistics Vanguard (3x).