Gift article for any uniformed friends or family: experts overwhelmingly agree that the apparent increase in autism in USA is due to broader inclusion criteria and diagnoses. It is NOT caused by tylenol or vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

New paper: We argue that linearization in language production is a foraging process, with speakers navigating semantic and spatial clusters. Lead author: Karina Tachihara, former UC Davis postdoc, now faculty at UIUC! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

a peek inside a famous software company in the news today: a long time ago I was hired to assess a new program that I was told could summarize any article Contacts there hailed it as 'amazing, ground-breaking'

♥️Robert Munsch books are the best: spunky, sassy unique kids, well-meaning hapless adults, tons of imagination, and irresistible prose (+ Love You Forever 😭)

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

www2.ufjf.br/ppglinguisti... @tiagotorrent.com Rio for in-person and on-line lectures, in OCT

UPDATE: Abstract deadline: Nov 1, 25! Invited speakers: Corrine Occhino, Dagmar Divjak, Idan Blank, Randy Allen Harris, Gary Lupyan, Laura Michaelis, Kanishka Misra ! @dagmardivjak.bsky.social @randyallenharris.bsky.social @congramqueen.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social @kanishka.bsky.social

LLM finds it FAR easier to distinguish b/w DO & PO constructions when the lexical & info structure of instances conform more closely w/ the respective constructions (left 👇). Where's pure syntax? LLM seems to say "🤷‍♀️" (right) @SRakshit adele.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

A brilliant linguist and sociolinguist, RIP Gift article from NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026 Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods Stay tuned for updates!

Princeton Psychology & Neuroscience are looking to hire a joint assistant professor doing computational, clinical, and/or neuroimaging research, w/ PhD in Psych, Neuro, CS or related. 👇

whadya know, looks like we're marching back to the days when George W got into Yale www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

The Oregon Institute was an incredible experience. Do it again, Volya! #LSA2027

Enjoying the best Linguistic Institute ever in Eugene @lsa2025uo.bsky.social Giving the Forum Lecture as Fillmore Professor in honor of dear Chuck, Weds July 16, 6-7pm, Straub 156. Introduced by my friend (and Chuck's) the wonderful @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

finally en route to what might just be the best Ling Institute ever, in Eugene OR! Can't wait to see old friends and meet new ones! ‪@lsa2025uo.bsky.social‬ center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/

@nyt, if Mamdani had been trying to game the system, he would not have also checked Asian

Thanks for the opportunity, Because Language! 👇

On the productivity + fixity of language. from A bit of Fry and Laurie. No one can put it better:

Jesus. Trump demanded “unconditional surrender" from a state with which THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AT WAR, one that just a few hours ago he was still talking about a "deal" with.

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

looking forward to spending time in Barcelona and Cambridge next year on sabbatical

A legend. The very best parts of modern linguistics would not exist without Haj Ross. And his examples, warmth, and sense of humor were magic. He was and will remain larger than life.

Fantastic thread:

Organized by Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social 🙌 Princeton's hosting a new workshop on Naturalistic Conversation, with an amazing group of neuroscientists, psychologists, computer scientists and linguists.

Unicef is working in Gaza 🙏 help.unicef.org/ob/donate-to...

From NLP to LLMS - really interesting!

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Benny is an amazing researcher and colleague--you won't regret hiring him!

Confs: Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks

👇impressed me

A compositional rule would interpret "a simony blurk" as "a blurk that is simony" GPT-4o explains its "summary guess: A simony blurk could mean a clumsy or ridiculous imitation of something serious" which is more human like? @weissweiler.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social

🧠 In an EEG experiment, we recorded brain activity while participants listened to the questions. Gestures led to signals of 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 before the upcoming target word (i.e., alpha and beta power decreases), and 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the target word once it was heard (i.e., less negative N400) ✔️

Had nothing but the best time postdoc-ing with Kyle -- consider applying to work with him!

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!) oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

Very cool work by Qiawen (Ella) Liu, Paridon, @glupyan.bsky.social: e.g., Is white hot or cold? LMs consider 'white' cold because it's mediated by 'snow' Ablate the mediators, and you eliminate the associations. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Until these people are free in America, none of us are free: Mahmoud Khalil Rümeysa Öztürk Kilmar Abrego Garcia Mohsen Mahdawi

Our analysis shows continuous changes in the speed, accuracy, and variability of kids' word recognition. Consistent with "language as a skill" proposals, accuracy and log reaction time increase linearly in the log of age. Trial-wise variability decreases linearly in the log of age as well.

He sounds like a wonderful man with a true moral compass. He's exactly the kind of person I want in my country—not the cruel monsters running our government.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

nicel! and constructions are schemas for language

Well done!!

trying to "its a prank its a prank" our way back to a manufacturing economy

#linguistics well, sort of

Boom. Quién dijo que la coordinación era poca cosa?

Also on grammatical islands: backgroundedness & single event status explain variation in acceptability of single extraction of 2nd conjuncts: ?? What does she [[drink gin] and [eat _]]? What did she [[run to the store ]and [buy_]]? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vo0np... @relbelluck.bsky.social

GPT-4 behaves just like people on a complex set of 'island' stimuli: Backgroundedness jdgmts on base sentences predict independent acceptability jdgmts on Qs & RCs but not jdgmts on the base sentences themselves Causal manipulation works too @supantho.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6ktvd...