Very happy to see this paper on our cross-linguistic database of modals published! doi.org/10.1075/lv.230… In the paper, we describe the design of the database and discuss three case studies on how it can be used to investigate cross-ling universal and variation in modals.

Our new study is out today in the New England Journal of Medicine! We demonstrate a speech neuroprosthesis that decodes the attempted speech of a man with ALS into text with 97.5% accuracy, enabling him to communicate with his family, friends, and colleagues in his own home. 1/9

Our new open access article is out in QJEP! 4 experiments showing: (i) emoji make different semantic contributions depending on their placement; (ii) like gestures, they can lead people to draw linguistic inferences typically associated with normal words journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Consider submitting to the online conference "Puzzles of Agreement: Syntactic, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Perspectives" (October 24-25 2024), organized by the Univ. of Bucharest, Univ. of Toronto, UMass Amherst, ZAS Berlin, Deadline: 20 September linguistlist.org/issues/35-2285/

new paper! Why are we more likely to say "the red dress is cute" than "the cute dress is red"? Because "cute" is subjective (potentially controversial), and speakers prefer to foreground controversial information.

Great Idea for Poster presentation...!!! Via Caroline O'Donnell/O'Flaherty Lab (Linkedin) #scicomm #scienceoutreach #sciencetalk #scienceposter

The manuscript you submitted and then after peer review and revisions. ex-X (formerly RedPen/BlackPen)

New paper out in Natural Language Semantics with Cory Bill & Jacopo Romoli: we present 4 experiments comparing how people treat free choice inferences in positive and negative environments, compared to standard scalar implicature baselines (preprint below) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢 Join us for the "Puzzles of Agreement" Online Workshop! 🧩 🗓️ When: October 24-25 🎓 Co-organizers: Univ. of Bucharest, Univ. of Toronto, UMass Amherst, ZAS Berlin 💡 Dive into intriguing puzzles about agreement. There's something for everyone! sites.google.com/view/puzzlesof…

I will be presenting my preliminary results on timing of agreement in sentence production! Do you think you plan morphology independent of its host verb? I will be mainly focusing on how much I learned by trying to integrate seemingly different work into attraction!

New paper with Tue Trinh: Conditional Questions ("if you come, will Bea leave?") are derived by mvt+ syntactic reconstruction. The semantics is simple, and the theory makes correct predictions re: diagnostics for reconstructions. Comments welcome! lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008540

I'm a PhD student at University of Oxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

"Our results reveal that whenever handwriting movements are included as a learning strategy, more of the brain gets stimulated, resulting in the formation of more complex neural network connectivity...typewriting do[es] not activate...networks the same way that handwriting does."

New preprint "Does hearing "and" help children understand "or"? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian": ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008610 Joint work with M. Panaitescu, G. Bîlbîie, A. Cremers, Andreea Nicolae ,Anton Benz, & Lyn Tieu

Joint work on epistemic reasoning with modal adverbs in child Romanian with Anton Benz and Nicole Gotzner, finally out in "Language Acquisition" :) Very grateful to the useful feedback received throughout the review process. :) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our article on the role of UG and crosslinguistic influence in interpreting recursive set-subset adjectives in Romanian-English bilinguals is now out in "Frontiers in Human Neuroscience". Joint work with Deborah Foucault, Tom Roeper, & Usha Lakshmanan :) frontiersin.org/journals/human…