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How do our brains respond to facts vs. uncertainty? NeLLab Spotlight second episode, w me and Maxime Tulling chatting about our recent SfN Journals #eNeuro paper on this topic. NYU Linguistics NYUAD Research Coauthors: @rmc_law Ailis Cournane tinyurl.com/ytdnjva2

My paper with Ana Pérez-Leroux won the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award this year 🎉 It's experimental L1A work testing language change theory, here incrementation. doi.org/10.1080/154754…

My lab (ChildLanguageLanb@NYU) is recruiting with MommyPoppins (yay!). mommypoppins instagram.com/p/CUx1Ju8NCgu/…

Congratulations to Ailis Cournane, this year's prizewinner for the best original research article by an untenured scientist: “Revisiting the epistemic gap: It’s not the thought that counts"! Free to view for a year: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Ailis Cournane NYU Linguistics

Now out in Language Development Research (all the open science and no fees one can wish for!): my corpus paper with Ailis Cournane delving into children's early counterfactual productions to show the role linguistic complexity plays in the acquisition of counterfactuality tinyurl.com/2022LDR (1/4)

New paper in Language Acquisition! We got wee'uns to produce sentence-medial functional words. Their modals are not adult-like by a long shot. Mapping modal verbs to meanings: an elicited production study on “force” and “flavor” with young preschoolers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Babies’ and children’s brains are way more interesting than LLMs. I wish humans marveled more at them over dinner tables #LLMs #scicomm

Hibakusha: Octogenarian determined to tell own story about A-bomb at memorial ceremony mainichi.jp/english/articl…

Ivy League schools admit more legacy students than black students. #AffirmativeAction dailyprincetonian.com/article/2015/0…

The only thing as reliable as language change is complaints about language change (often not about things that are actually changing) x.com/KoryStamper/st…

I hoped there was an acoustic salience basis for dinging women for creak, but nope. Double standard for women's voices still a thing ☹️ 6/6

Nazis killed a woman and the President backed them up. What will they do now?

I don't usually ask for retweets but if you RT the quoted tweet it could put serious pressure on @Amazon to pull its ads from Breitbart 🙏&TY x.com/mirasorvino/st…

A whole lot of folks on here believe society doesn't owe anyone a job or health care but somehow believe women owe them a date.