Jane 🐸

So exciting to see a paper reviewing recent psycholinguistic experiments on Philippine Languages. 🧠 Written by two of my good friends—Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevarra (UMass) and Rowena Garcia (Potsdam/MPI-Psycholinguistics). annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

📢 New paper 📢 What generalization mechanisms shape the language skills of LLMs? Prior work has claimed that LLMs learn language via rules. We revisit the question and find that superficially rule-like behavior of LLMs can be traced to underlying analogical processes. 🧵

One of the highlights of the Fall semester for me is organizing our PhD application mentorship program!!🧑‍🎓 We offer SOP and general grad school advice, with the goal of supporting first-gen and URM scholars. Got questions? Sign up here: forms.gle/V1tsYLU7L4BezR…

My very first MEG paper is finally accepted for publication in Cortex! 🥳 We investigate the neural profile of early (decomposition) and late stages (recombination) of visual word recognition of inflected prefixed words in Tagalog, an understudied language in neurolinguistics.🧠

On the train to UMass Amherst to attend AFLA 31! 🚞 Giving a talk on joint work with Gérard Avelino, rethinking the morphology and semantics of plural pronoun constructions based on novel data from Tagalog. I’m so lucky to work with such a thoughtful co-author!! 🕺

Excited to share that I've been awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, which will support my research for the next two years!! 🦫🍁 Now onto finishing this PhD and actually writing up papers lol

We have reached a TA!! Starting July 1, the base stipend will be $47k, with a $1k signing bonus upon contract ratification. This is an enormous win for grad workers. Join us at the next general membership meeting to learn more: buff.ly/3ITtJGK 💪💪💪

Excited to present some ongoing work at PLC48 tomorrow (Session 3A), where we test the types of morpho-phonological generalizations RNNs may form over limited training data 🤖 Joint work w/ @icoson and Paul Smolensky

As part of my PhD viva, I’m so excited to present to you a symposium that discusses what Tagalog can teach us about psycholinguistics and formal linguistics. If you are interested in morphological processing, sentence processing, and causation, SAVE THE DATE AND REGISTER BELOW ⬇️

My amazing RA Sofia just won an award based on our work!! So excited to explore morphophonology and speech production with her for the coming year(s) 🥳

Honored my paper with @psresnik was accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2023! Many psycholinguistics studies use LLMs to estimate the probability of words in context. But LLMs process statistically derived subword tokens, while human processing does not. Does the disconnect matter? 🧵

🥳NEW PAPER🥳 ChatGPT's language skills are impressive, but can it pass this simple test from 1958? In our #EMNLP2023 paper, @vjhofmann and I evaluate ChatGPT's ability for morphological generalization on a novel set of made-up "wug words" in four languages. 🧵(1/4)

Got questions about the PhD admissions process? Trying to see if a PhD in CogSci is for you? We're here to help!

In our new paper out today at @TrendsCognSci , @leylaisi and I argue that social interaction perception is a visual process--computed by the visual system and distinct from higher-level cognitive processes. tinyurl.com/nhh2dhxt

Asked on the other app already, but does anyone know of other hand-aligned speech corpora at the phone level, like Buckeye? Ideally looking for French, German, or Spanish, but any corpus recommendation is still welcome!

CompLing folks, join me in the Twin Cities! The wonderful folks at the Linguistics department at @Macalester are hiring a Computational Linguist! Deadline 10/1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Macalester…

Giving a talk at #AMLaP2023 on the production planning of allomorphs! This is a continuation of my previous work (presented at HSP2023) but through the lens of a different dataset/experimental task. Excited to share it with you all!🚴 Aug 31 (Thu) 14:20-14:40 // Session 3

my toxic trait is writing ten minute Medium articles for the docstrings of one line functions