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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.
This Google site, https://sites.google.com/view/stelamanova, is meant as an alternative to https://homepage.univie.ac.at/stela.manova and is mirrored at: https://www.stelamanova.com/.
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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: 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.
May 2025
Gauss:AI Global/LingTransformer
in action! 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
CALL FOR ENTRIES 🧠 Rename ChatGPT
Puns, linguistic chaos, and philosophical despair
https://x.com/ManovaStela/status/1917827924662591778
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.
February 2025
Gauss:AI Global has entered its final stage of preparation. Expect updates of all our resources.
January 2025
Gauss:AI Global is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@gaussaiglobal.
Nov - Dec 2024
Gauss:AI Global / LingTransformer in action: My two new papers on LLMs are among the most downloaded on LingBuzz, Paper 1 & Paper 2;
Reviewing for Linguistics
Vanguard (3x).
October 2024
The website of Gauss:AI, https://www.gaussaiglobal.com, is online. Gauss:AI is on X, @GaussAIGlobal.
September 2024
Reviewing for Glossa & Morphology.
July 2024
Recruited paper: Basic units and form-meaning mismatches in linguistics and in ChatGPT accepted for inclusion in Vsevolod Kapatsinski (U Oregon) and Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley) (eds.), Special collection Implications of Neural Networks and other Learning Models for Linguistic Theory. Linguistics Vanguard (De Gruyter).
June 2024
Invited paper: ChatGPT and linguistic theory, with a focus on morphology. Submitted for inclusion in José-Luis Mendívil-Giró (U Zaragoza) (ed.), Artificial Knowledge of Language. A Linguists’ Perspective on its Nature, Origins and Use. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press.