Gabor Brody
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I'm logging off indefinitely: you can reach me at bluesky,signal, or email.
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RT @OliverWithAnI: 🎆New paper alert! . Me & @Alexey_Koshevoy revisit the law of abbreviation, a nearly universal correlation between word….
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Efficiency principles are increasingly called upon to study features of human language and communication. Zipf’s law of abbreviation is widely seen as a classic instance of a linguistic pattern...
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RT @RomanFeiman: 35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In @PsychScience, @gaborbrody, Athulya A….
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How do children learn what a word means when its uses are consistent with many possible meanings? One influential idea is that children rely on an inductive bias that ensures that novel words get...
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The upshot is that if infants represent discourse referents, that changes the structure of many learning/inference problems in domains ranging from referential communication to word and language learning. Let us know what you think! link: (3/3).
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Our answer is that it is (often) discourse referents: entity representations that are individuated based on their status in a communicative discourse rather than their location (c.f. object files). We examine several signatures of this format in infancy (e.g displacement) (2/3).
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New preprint! In this position/review paper @GCsibra and I ask: what is the format of representation that infants bind conceptual properties to? What is the entity-representation that can have a property like DUCK? (1/3)
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Human infants connect conceptual descriptions to objects in the first year of their life. Here, we explore the cognitive architecture that supports this capacity. We propose that early in developme...
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RT @B_Pomiechowska: Ever wondered what makes human intelligence so powerful? We thought 👉compositionality in babies👈 might be part of the a….
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RT @RomanFeiman: @gaborbrody and I show that adults prioritize grammatical elements (eg THAT queen vs ANOTHER queen) for referent identific….
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RT @RomanFeiman: People can successfully communicate about things even when they describe them incorrectly. If I mention that queen who sai….
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RT @newkeelynew: MIT will host NELS 54 in January 2024! ft. special sessions on Austronesian Languages and Experimental Methods! https://t.….
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RT @RomanFeiman: What do words mean? Does each word have one meaning, or are there polysemous words with many related ‘senses’? In our new….
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Based on the existence of polysemy (e.g. lunch can refer to both food and events), it is argued that central tenets of externalist semantics and Fodorian concept atomism, an externalist theory on...
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RT @roni_katzir: A paper by @spiantado claims that “Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language.” I wrote a short reply ex….
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My historical hunch is that when the engineers (or more moneyed fields) come to linguists/psychologists/etc, they extract, misinterpret, and commodify domain knowledge, take over the jobs, and claim that they solved everything. Maybe the hostility is. a bit reasonable?.
I agree that it would be good to consult linguists/linguistics for LLMs or other language related matters but I don’t think linguists have been THAT welcoming in the past. If we don’t listen to other fields’ questions or concerns and only emphasize ours, they’ll stop coming to us.
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Maybe the human brain is a flesh-transformer fine tuned to output the “chomsky bad” string in an intelligible sounding sentence? Would this outcome make anyone happy? 🤷♂️ 2/2.
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The only evidence against the chomsky&co oped is people who miss the point so hard that they try these “examples”. If this is the best we can do maybe human intelligence is way overrated. 1/2.
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RT @RomanFeiman: I'm hiring a full time research assistant to help us understand how infants, kids, and adults connect language and thought….
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RT @chazfirestone: Zenon Pylyshyn (1937-2022) has passed away. A titan in the field of cognitive science, he made foundational contribution….
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New paper: we show that pointing leads 12mo infants to conceptually describe an object. As a bonus, it turns out that young infants in the previous lit did not derive mutual exclusivity inferences because they lacked such descriptions. With @B_pomiechowska, @Gcsibra, @GligaTeea.
Y a y! So pleased to see this paper finally out. Stay tuned, a thread about main findings 👉 how communication and conceptual representation allow infants to express their inferential skills and boost new word disambiguation 👈 to follow very soon.
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RT @chazfirestone: Does the Müller-Lyer illusion require seeing "carpentered corners", such that it's only a product of WEIRD societies? I….
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