another great paper from @mh-christiansen.bsky.social, showing that non-constituents* can be primed It's more evidence that traditional linguists were mistaken to believe memory was in short supply: Human memory is compressed, clustered, implicit and vast

with sound on 😀

Enjoy (Gift article from NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...)

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

..what LLMs have learned when they learn language, the inappropriateness of parrot metaphors, the (non)autonomy of syntax, and the sheer power of pattern matching (construction grammars had it right!) Pattern matching is not an alternative to “true” thinking, it is its key ingredient.

This is stunning work!

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... @congramqueen.bsky.social @adelegoldberg.bsky.social

Venezuela's state apparatus appears very much intact and independent you can't conquer another country with a speech act

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

But her email, his kid’s laptop, and Camera

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

at a party last night, someone was complaining that LMs only 'regurgitate info, don't understand anything...like for example, they can't come up with Einstein's theory of relativity' The room:

I feel like people who underestimate LM's understanding overestimate their own

Review starts 12/1 (rolling basis): Open-rank (tenure-track/tenured) positions, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, Psych. + Brain Sci., Johns Hopkins University pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/

Less than 3 weeks to submit an abstract for ICCG14! please pass it on: iccg14.oa-event.com June 4-7, 2026

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

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!